Museum Of Fine Arts of Boston Presents Fashion Show: Paris Collections

Boston Museum of Fine Arts Presents Fashion Show: Paris Collections 2006: Through March 18, 2007: Gund Gallery. This major museum exhibition brings together the latest designs from 10 of the most influential and creative fashion designers of our time.

Fashion Show: Paris Collections 2006 features luxurious and provocative clothing seen on Paris runways in 2006 with designs by Azzedine, Hussein Chalayan, Chanel, Christian Dior, Christian Lacroix, Maison Martin Margiela, Rochas, Valentino, Viktor & Rolf, and Yohji Yamamoto.

Featuring approximately 10 pieces from each house, Fashion Show explores contemporary fashion in Paris, from the elegant and iconic to the audacious and avant-garde, including some of the most challenging and imaginative designs to hit the runway in years. It also offers a glimpse into the reasons why Paris has remained the center of the fashion world. This exhibition is brought to you by State Street Global Advisors. The television media sponsor is WCVB-TV 5. The show will be accompanied by a catalogue published by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Fashion Photography: Through March 25, 2007: Trustman Gallery

Photography and fashion have been inextricably linked since the early 1900s, when fashion magazines rocketed to popularity. Over the last century, magazines like Vogue and Harper's Bazaar provided opportunities for photographers to create vital pictorial imagery in a realm that fell between art and commerce. Fashion Photography captures the expressive poses, daring couture, and aura of glamour created by the great fashion image-makers of the past 100 years. This exhibition, timed in conjunction with Fashion Show: Paris Collections 2006, features approximately 75 photographs including the refined extravagance of Baron de Meyer and Cecil Beaton, the elegance of Edward Steichen, the glamour of Irving Penn, the pizzazz of Richard Avedon, the irreverent chic of William Klein, the dreaminess of Deborah Turbeville, the provocative seduction of Helmut Newton, and the sensuality of Herb Ritts.

The Romance of Modernism: Paintings and Sculpture from the Scott M. Black Collection: Through May 6, 2007: Rabb Gallery

The Romance of Modernism: Paintings and Sculpture from the Scott M. Black Collection is the first exhibition to highlight the extraordinary private collection Scott M. Black. The exhibition presents more than forty paintings and about fifteen sculptures by Impressionists such as Cézanne, Degas, Monet and Renoir; works by post-Impressionists Toulouse-Lautrec and Signac; and modernist works by Braque, Léger, Matisse, and Picasso.

Michael Mazur: Art of the Print: Through May 31, 2007: Lower Rotunda

Artist Michael Mazur has generously donated his archive of editioned prints to the MFA. This collection spans nearly decades and includes some 400 works executed in a great diversity of printmaking media and styles, from expressive figuration to lyrical among his primary sources of inspiration are the human figure and landscape. This exhibition will feature 25 works of all periods from this remarkable gift, which includes tr s that reveal the evolution of the artist's ideas.

Beyond Basketry: Japanese Bamboo Art: Through July 6, 2007:Japanese Decorative Arts Gallery

Although woven bamboo containers have been used in Japan for thousands of years, it is only during the last century that basketry has emerged as a prestigious art form. From its root in imitations of Chinese baskets through to today's sometimes extravagantly expressive, non-functional sculptural works,
Japanese bamboo art is an astonishing demonstration of the variety that can be achieved from one of East Asia's most abundant natural resources.

Often seemingly simple, the 39 baskets in Beyond Basketry required years of training and months of work to complete. Through careful selection of raw materials, intricately woven patterns, inventive forms, and meticulous finishing that celebrates the natural qualities of bamboo, Japan's basket makers have create little-known but compelling artistic universe.

Donatello to Giambologna: Italian Renaissance Sculpture at the MFA, Boston: Through June 10, 2007

This exhibition is a fascinating collection of nearly 100 renaissance sculptures, many of which have never been on view to the public. Renowned renaissance sculptors such as Donatello, Giovanni Angelo del Maino, Giambologna and the masterful Giovanni Francesco Rustici--a Florentine sculptor who was a student of Leonardo da Vinci--are represented in this exhibition. With the wide range of ar and media, Donatello to Giambologna offers an expansive look at both the traditional and lesser-known forms of Renaissance sculpture. The exhibition also reveals the fascinating process of conservation, as works will in various stages of restoration. Donatello to Giambologna will allow visitors to gain insight into how renaissance sculptures were created during this important period in a history.

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