Learning To Look
1,301 views · Published 1 May 2014 · 1:24:36 · Indexed 25 October 2026
Channel: GBH Forum Network · 2014 · Education
You love Sebastian Smee's pieces about art and the local art scene in the Boston Globe and you've loved Paul Tucker's Monet exhibitions at the MFA. Now, meet them at Cambridge Forum as part of ArtWeek Boston to discuss the ways that looking at a work of art can open it up to reveal a rich web of information about the work itself, its maker and the society in which it was created. How does a work of art become meaningful for the beholder? Where can that appreciation lead the ordinary person?
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