Artsy Neighbors

Abby Goodnough at the New York Times writes on the expansion of the Gardner Museum here in the Fenway.

If a painting were stolen out of a contemporary art gallery where the walls are all white, you might say it’s a shame for that artwork. But the way that people who visit this place feel violated, it’s like somebody stole this art out of their own living room.
— Ulrich Boser, author of The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World’s Largest Unsolved Art Theft

And, Holland Cotter previews the MFA’s Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, opening today.