MFA Hopper Preview, And Unveiled Art

Joel Brown over at Hubarts.com, took in the Edward Hopper preview yesterday at the Museum of Fine Arts. His blog is here.

A release from the MFA:

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) is pleased to unveil Mahisasura, by Tyeb Mehta, one of India’s most distinguished living arts. The loan of Mahisasura, one of the artist’s best known works, is on loan to the MFA from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Rajiv Jahangir Chaudhri. The Chaudhri Collection, comprising around 300 works, is one of the premier collections of contemporary Indian art in the world. The loan of Mahisasura, on view at the MFA from May 4 through September 9, 2007, is the first in a series of loans of contemporary South Asian paintings from the Chaudhri Collection.