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Isabella Stewart Gardner the astute art collector and artist patron is famous for stipulating that her trove of masterpieces remain exactly where she hung them in her historic Boston museum.
But parts of her singular collection have been on the move recently for a first-of-its-kind exhibition titled Off the Wall, which tells the origin story of the collection itself.
A Painting Worth Following
The museum s professional art handlers gently remove an eye-popping 15th century painting from its place on the wall. It’s Italian master Botticelli’s, The Tragedy of Lucretia. Watching it get lifted up off the wall and then taken down is really one of the more nerve-wracking moments for me, Christina Nielsen admitted as she looked on, as a curator I often have to avert my gaze.
From the Archives, 1931: Dame Nellie Melba s final farewell
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As I grow older and begin worrying about my mortality, I understand why people have children: who else will bother to remember you after you’re dead? But surely there must be an easier way than being pregnant for nine months (and all the nausea, hormonal changes, and inability to sleep on one’s stomach this implies), giving birth, and having to feed and care for a young person and prepare them to be a useful member of society. Plus they’re so expensive, all that food and clothing and electronic equipment, not to mention college tuition.