“Our mission is to retain the atmosphere of the collection as it was installed,” he says. But “the museum has some serious issues it has to deal with, with regard to the preservation of the palace and the collection.” Allowing that it’s a “really complex issue,” Labeck says the museum has “always been open to ideas. Any we receive will be considered.”
To that end, Moore encourages people to write or e-mail the Boston Redevelopment Authority during the project’s public-comments period, which ends January 10. Yes, she says, Isabella Stewart Gardner was a progressive woman. Ahead of her time. “She supported contemporary art, and would support a new building. But not this particular configuration that tears down her creation.”
To voice your opinion on the Gardner Museum’s proposed expansion, e-mail the Boston Redevelopment Authority’s Kristin Kara during the project’s public-comments period, which ends January 10.
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- People get ready
Fourteen New England artists/artist teams hook up to produce a variety of interconnecting installations.
- Time out of mind
Luisa Rabbia created a slow-moving video work that offers a kind of travelogue of her own journey through Isabella Stewart Gardner's historic scrapbooks.
- Road trips
In the fall of 1883, Isabella Stewart Gardner — more than a decade before she would develop her museum on Boston’s Fenway — traveled to China.
- Touch the sky
The term “polyptych” usually refers to the multi-panel paintings designed as altarpieces for churches and cathedrals in Gothic and Renaissance Europe.
- Three's company
The show's American curator, Frederick Ilchman, has snagged an improbable number of pairs and trios from the world's famous (and not so famous) museums.
- 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.
- Unembarrassed riches
Some weeks Boston has such musical riches, one wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.
- Stolen
By buying up her favorite artworks and displaying them for posterity in her museum, Isabella Stewart Gardner removed them from the sphere of commerce and preserved them for the enjoyment of all.
- Now on tape
Spending a rainy Saturday night curled up in front of Dodgeball or the first season of Six Feet Under is great and all, but what if you want to find Michael Auder’s “Polaroid Cocaine,” a five-minute, 1993 video montage of images that “dwell on the themes of death, destruction, and desire,” accompanied by cabaret music?
- Seal of approval
Photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia is a safe, easy choice for the new ICA’s first big artist retrospective.
- What’s in a name?
The discovery that we’ve had Lane’s name wrong since at least 1913 has prompted questions about what else scholars have gotten wrong about him.
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