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Exhibition brings recent contemporary acquisitions into conversation with rarely seen works
Joseph Lewis as Eze Nri (2018), Stephen Hamilton. © Stephen Hamilton. Image courtesy of the artist.
BOSTON, MASS
.- This summer, New Light: Encounters and Connections at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, brings more than 60 works of art from across the collection—including 23 newly acquired contemporary pieces—into thought-provoking dialogue. Organized into 21 “conversations,” the exhibition juxtaposes each contemporary work with one or two rarely seen objects acquired earlier in the Museum’s history. The latest additions to the collection include works by emerging as well as local or Boston-born artists, while the earlier objects range from an ancient Egyptian carving of a princess to 20th-century textiles from southwestern Nigeria and Gee’s Bend, Alabama. Together, these objects invite visitors to explore an array of subjects—from religious devotion and ancestral herit ....

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