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Slideshow: Two Mexican exhibits at MFA

Images from "Viva Mexico! Edward Weston and His Contemporaries" and "Vida y Drama: Modern Mexican Prints"

By PHOENIX STAFF | June 2, 2009

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Rose Roland(Covarrubias), 1926
Edward Weston (American, 1886–1958)
Photograph, gelatin silver print
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Sophie M. Friedman Fund
Photograph courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

READ:Make a run for the border: Edward Weston in Mexico, plus modern Mexican prints. By Greg Cook

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Fresh fruit and vegetables
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Pottery, Potter, mummies, and a 'Rare Bird'
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Photos: The Secrets of Tomb 10A at MFA
Photos of an Ancient Egyptian exhibit on display at the Museum of Fine Arts
Fresh fruit and vegetables
The bleakest months of New England winter are ahead of us, so the prospect of leaving your toasty house to see art may not be at the top of your to-do list.
Pottery, Potter, mummies, and a 'Rare Bird'
The art of 2000 BC Egypt, visions from the Iraq War and AIDS activism, and the magic of a digital technology and Harry Potter make up the highlights of Boston's autumn art calendar.
Modern times
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2009: The year in art
The year started off with a kick in the teeth when, in January, Brandeis University announced plans to shutter its Rose Art Museum and sell off its masterpieces.
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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.
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At the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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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.
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.
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