Boston Museum of Fine Arts

"Someone out to tell them [Americans] how to behave in a museum. They talk as if they were at home..."

Charles Dantzig quoted in "Objectif Lune," in Harper's magazine, May 2009.
from Encyclopédie capricieuse du tout et du rien.

Just a suggestion.

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I first went to the BMFA decades ago. But it is still my favorite American art museum, housing three of my favorite paintings: Rosso Fiorentino's "Dead Christ with Angels," Gaughin's "D'ou venons-nous? Qui sommes-nous? Ou allons-nous?" and Manet's "Street Singer."

Its works of art are housed in a building commensurate with the breadth of its comprehensive collection.

And its collection of Claude Monet, about 36 paintings, is unparalleled in North America and may even be second only to the Musee d'Orsay in Paris.

Not as concerned with its self-importance as the Met.

Speaking of which, it is the BMFA, and not the Met is showing the new exhibition of High Renaissance Venetian Painting--Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese--through August. The next and only other stop is--you guessed it--the Louvre itself.

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