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Article: WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? Modern art is more popular than ever, but you won't find much of it in Boston right now
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 7, 2008
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Visual Arts
For people who like art, Boston is one of the most lavishly
endowed cities in America. Indeed, of the museums with the six
biggest collections in America, two are in our area.
On the other hand, if you happen to be a Bostonian who likes
modern art, these are dismayingly lean times. Look for modern art -
by which I mean art made in the 20th century up until about 1970
(after which people usually start referring to "contemporary art") -
at the Museum of Fine Arts right now, and you will come away with a
few handfuls of work scattered willy-nilly. If you go to the Harvard
Art Museum, you will get a desultory selection taking up barely more
than a room.
The situation seems strange ...