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This weekend, we're celebrating the closing of "Garden for Boston," the MFA’s first living, growing exhibition! 🌻 🌽 Join us in person on September 25 to hear from artists Ekua Holmes (African American) and Elizabeth James-Perry (Aquinnah Wampanoag): https://t.co/54HdPHNpkQ

#LuchitaHurtado was born in Maiquetia, Venezuela and moved to New York as a child. Learn more about her painting “Untitled” (about 1969) from @googlearts: https://t.co/SRaUYLVl9w #LatinxHeritageMonth #HispanicHeritageMonth #MesDeLaHerenciaHispana #MesDeLaHerencaaLatinx

“[T]he spectacular invitation on the front of the building [...] lets everyone know that at some point in history, there was a little girl from Roxbury who used to skip up those steps to come here to think about art and think about creativity and to imagine. —Ekua Holmes ✨

It's #NationalDanceDay! Enjoy "A pavane," a court dance of the Renaissance with stylized movements and stately rhythms. Edwin Austin Abbey's 1897 painting employed his customary attention to detail, studying with great care the positions and gestures of each of the dancers.

Martín Ramírez, a visionary artist from Jalisco, Mexico, produced a profusion of black & white drawings that reflected his personal, cross-cultural experiences. #LatinxHeritageMonth #HispanicHeritageMonth © 2009 Estate of Martín Ramírez courtesy of the Ricco/Maresca Gallery⁣⁣

#Degas' "Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer" has a pretty great view ✨ This week's fan favorite goes to joellenzwv on Instagram for this photo taken in our #Impressionism gallery. Share your photos with #mfaBoston for a chance to be featured 📷

Gmar Chatimah Tova. A shofar, such as this 19th-century example from Poland, is made of a ram’s horn and blown at Rosh Hashanah and at the very end of #YomKippur. Hear what this instrument sounds like: https://t.co/ZPETs4lsmA

Born in 1915 in Havana, Cuba, #CarmenHerrera settled in New York in 1954, but was continually overlooked by the art establishment for her gender and ethnicity. #LatinxHeritageMonth #HispanicHeritageMonth 🎨 : "Blanco y Verde (#1)" (1962), acrylic on canvas © Carmen Herrera

🗣️ Have a question for #AskACurator Day? Contemporary art curators Michelle Millar Fisher, Marina Tyquiengco and Debra Lennard are here until 5 pm answering questions about their exhibition “New Light: Encounters and Connections,” contemporary art and their work as curators!

Are you ready for #AskACurator Day? We’ll have Michelle Millar Fisher, Marina Tyquiengco & Debra Lennard answering your most pressing questions about their “New Light” exhibition, contemporary art and all things curatorial! 👇 Comment between now and Wednesday, September 15.

#TriviaTuesday: This 19th-century sculpture from the Santa Cruz Islands, part of the Solomon Islands, served what purpose?

It may be Monday morning, but you can still daydream about the weekend! 🎨:"Boys in a Pasture" (1874), Winslow Homer, oil on canvas

When artist Susan Hoffman returned to her downtown NYC apartment after the attacks of 9/11, she found the windows blown in and a small tear in the righthand panel of this quilt, “Coastline” (1975). She has since left it untouched as a tribute to the lives lost in the tragedy.

What makes a flower blue? @SciFri takes a look at the chemistry behind how Japanese illustrators and printers created a blue dye from the petals of the dayflower, with MFA assistant conservator Michiko Adachi weighing in! https://t.co/ZmhQlaxBmY

We’re giving away “Out of Wonder” from @Candlewick! For a chance to win, tell us: 📖 “What was the last children’s book you gave as a gift?” “Out of Wonder” (Kwame Alexander, Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth) features images by Ekua Holmes alongside original poems ✒️

An exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts offers a reappraisal of the institution’s foundational folk art collection...check below to learn more! ⭐ https://t.co/SlCUWZ3Lhs Los Tres Reyes Magos a Caballo, 1800s. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Fillin. @mfaboston #FolkArt #Exhibit

Like a family reunion or cherished photo album, to see Ekua Holmes’ art is to see her life and lineage. A new exhibit at the @mfaboston is devoted to the Boston artist's work: https://t.co/wpceXizye0

Ekua Holmes's work at @mfaboston incorporates mostly primary colors and she honors Black history, Black art and Black pioneers, bringing important new voices into galleries. https://t.co/z5yC6Ho8t6

Children's book illustrator and lifelong Bostonian Ekua Holmes on creating art for kids: "We want to be truthful, but we don't want to traumatize. Truth is always the right way to go." ICYMI: @OpenStudioGBH's @JaredGBH on her new @mfaboston exhibition → https://t.co/ZrC2IOzcuv

"Art was my companion, and it was my imaginative world where I could always enter and always find space for myself" -Ekua Holmes. Tonight, we sit down with this local artist to discuss her new exhibition "Paper Stories, Layered Dreams" at @mfaboston. More @ 8:30 PM EST on @GBH

Afternoon Zen. 💛🖤🌞 The front lawn of the @mfaboston , filled with sunflowers 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻 The ‘Garden For Boston’ “invites focus on the history of the land the @mfaboston occupies & the unrecognized contributions of Native American & African-American women.” #Boston25

TOMORROW: We profile the artist Ekua Holmes, a lifelong Boston resident whose children's book illustrations are on view in the exhibition "Paper Stories, Layered Dreams: The Art of Ekua Holmes​" at @mfaboston. A new episode of Open Studio airs Friday at 8:30 PM EST only on @GBH

Colourful collaged book illustrations, portraits and city scenes – Ekua Holmes gets a solo show @mfaboston. An Apollo art diary pick https://t.co/tvJ81JTjs6

Mind so blown by the @mfaboston’s “Basquiat & the hip-hop generation” exhibit. Caught 2nd to last day yesterday and am a changed person

One week left to see "Basquiat and the Hip Hop Generation" at the @mfaboston curated by Liz Munsell and Greg Tate. Check out @danajacobson segment on the show and Basquiat's legacy https://t.co/JECDAieaVw

This exhibit at @mfaboston celebrates the legacy of late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and the #HipHopGeneration. Saturday on @CBSThisMorning, @danajacobson takes a look at the exhibition and Basquiat's influence on art, music and hip-hop culture.

Visit the @mfaboston as they celebrate the work of local artist Ekua Holmes, a children’s book illustrator who’s lived in Roxbury her whole life. https://t.co/2Mgoe5QwbN

Huge props to @mfaboston for displaying the incomparable Baquiat and crew in all their glory!

Spent the day discussing one of the most intriguing Orientalist paintings: Reubens' portrait of Mulay Ahmad of Tunis (1609) @mfaboston. The new display of Dutch art at the MFA will incorporate this image as a painterly sign of the new age of discovery, science, profit & conquest.

David Ludwig Bloch was a deaf Jewish artist from Bavaria who found refuge in Shanghai following his flight from Nazi Europe. A painter, illustrator, & lithographer, Bloch captured the daily life of Shanghai in the 1940s. To RSVP https://t.co/3LQifJOe8D @lbinyc @mfaboston

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