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Photos: The Secrets of Tomb 10A at MFA

The Secrets of Tomb 10A: Egypt 2000 BC on exhibit until May 16, 2010

By MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON | October 22, 2009

Detail of Front side panel of outer coffin of Djehutynakht
Egyptian, Middle Kingdom, late Dynasty 11 – early Dynasty 12, 2010–1961 B.C.
Cedar
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

READ: Casting Spells: Tomb 10A at MFA, ACT UP at Harvard. By Greg Cook

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States of the art
In New England, where you can't swing a sack of cranberries without hitting a venerable cultural institution, anyone with access to a car (or even a subway pass) can scope out these topnotch art museums.
Modern times
Does Jen Mergel's appointment mean that the MFA is getting serious about contemporary art?
Slideshow: Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese at MFA
At the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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States of the art
In New England, where you can't swing a sack of cranberries without hitting a venerable cultural institution, anyone with access to a car (or even a subway pass) can scope out these topnotch art museums.
Modern times
Does Jen Mergel's appointment mean that the MFA is getting serious about contemporary art?
Slideshow: Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese at MFA
At the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Afterglow
The installation is a bit of a shift for Whiteread, who’s best known for making plaster, rubber, resin, or concrete casts of old used mattresses, a staircase, the entire interior of rooms.
Peabody rising
Could the Peabody Essex Museum be the Boston area’s most exciting art museum right now?
More than a feeling
The centerpiece of the Museum of Fine Arts' "Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs" is Candice Breitz's 2005 Queen (A Portrait of Madonna), a wall of 30 televisions, each showing a different Madonna fan singing a cappella to her 1990 greatest-hits compilation, The Immaculate Collection. They wear headphones, bob their heads, sing aloud to music we can't hear.
Slideshow: Two Mexican exhibits at MFA
"Viva Mexico!" with "Vida y Drama"
Folk my brains out
Toby Kamp's 'The Old, Weird America: Folk Themes In Contemporary Art' at The Decordova Museum
Photos: Exposures
A slideshow of photos from Yousuf Karsh, William Christenberry, and the PRC
Beauty and the East
Gallery-goers with an affinity for art from Asia will have plenty of reason for excitement with a handful of enticing shows this winter.
Brandeis shutters art museum
Late Monday afternoon, Brandeis University informed leaders of its Rose Art Museum that it would close the institution this summer and auction off the more than 6000 pieces in its renowned collection, which includes major works by Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jasper Johns.
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