Art, geo-politics and commerce suggestively underlay all the displays in the seven renovated galleries at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, says arts critic Lloyd Schwartz. These rooms are also connected to the museum's new Center for Netherlandish Art, which will open in January.
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The 2019 documentary My Rembrandt, available for streaming, is less a film about the iconic 17th century Dutch painter of the film s title than it is an acute, often fascinating and occasionally puzzling rumination on aspects of the other titular word â my.
One lesson of the film, ably helmed by director Oeke Hoogendijk, is that to love an artist s work is to possess it, whether physically, intellectually, emotionally or any combination thereof â including, perhaps, corruptly. Passion for an artist s work comes in many forms.
Hoogendijk knows her way around Dutch Golden Age painting and today s complicated cultural landscape, having spent a decade documenting the renovation and expansion of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam s incomparable repository. The success of that much-admired earlier film likely gave her unusual access to the art-world elite who open up in My Rembrandt.
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