Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Oct 8, 2026
Jeffrey TuckerGUEST
Actually, that's a huge deal because the left has been promoting this idea for many decades.
Jeffrey TuckerGUEST
That's why when you go to the Boston Museum of Art, you have to go through room after room of, of quilts and, and strange stone, uh, carvings or whatever before you get to what you really wanna see, which is art, right? So, the distinction between art and craft, um, is something that apparently the, the left has tried to destroy for decades, and now we've got Tucker Carlson assisting in this whole thing? "Oh, there's-" Down with art.
Jeffrey TuckerGUEST
All art sucks.
Jeffrey TuckerGUEST
Really, we should just have useful pottery things and jugs, and, uh, here's a working class guy who understands what true art is.
Erin L. ThompsonGUEST
Yes.
Erin L. ThompsonGUEST
So first Hirsch tries the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, who think that the sculptures are, are beautiful but maybe of too archeological interest is what the curator says.
Erin L. ThompsonGUEST
Basically, he thinks, um, Bostonians are, are too crude to appreciate them properly.
Erin L. ThompsonGUEST
So he's like, "Come back if you find more.
Erin L. ThompsonGUEST
So I don't think you do that if you're just, like, somebody who wants a Renaissance-style room.
Erin L. ThompsonGUEST
But anyways, uh, Dossena had a convenient excuse for why, like, "Oh, I'm not making forgeries myself.
Erin L. ThompsonGUEST
I'm just making these versions." And his, uh, middleman, his, the dealers who were selling his pieces, had sold these, uh, Renaissance-style forgeries to the Metropolitan Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Frick Collection, private collectors all over, and they had paid big, big, big money for these pieces.
Erin L. ThompsonGUEST
But Dossena's problem was, and his middleman's problem, they were a little too ambitious.
Eric JohnsonHOST
And those styles, are they generally emulating a European-style museum like the British Museum?
Peggy LevittGUEST
You know, when you think about the Met or the Museum of Fine Arts here in Boston, you usually walk up the steps, you're in this temple of knowledge, you walk into this grand hall, you feel, you know, humble.
Peggy LevittGUEST
You feel reverential.
Peggy LevittGUEST
You feel like...
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Peggy LevittGUEST
They lead, and they say, we have a certain amount of square feet here.
Peggy LevittGUEST
This is their museum.
Peggy LevittGUEST
How can we redistribute it? How can we use special exhibitions to flesh out things that we don't have in our permanent collection? I mean, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston wants to tell more Native American stories.
Peggy LevittGUEST
At this point, it's impossible to buy Native American materials.
Beowulf RochlenHOST
The union says average wages for its members are below that amount.
Beowulf RochlenHOST
Local 2110 UAW represents several other workers at other museums and cultural institutions around the city, including Brooklyn Museum, the MFA, Boston, Mass MoCA, the Museum of Modern Art, and more.
Beowulf RochlenHOST
The union recently won elections at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston and the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
Beowulf RochlenHOST
Eric Carle, I believe that's the author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Paul JasperGUEST
This is total serendipity.
Paul JasperGUEST
The MFA in Boston is world renowned.
Paul JasperGUEST
It's like the Met in New York.
Paul JasperGUEST
I had gone in and there was a special exhibit.
Paul JasperGUEST
It hit me like a lightning bolt, and I thought to myself, why can't I do that? Why can't – I've studied all these old styles of woodworking, all these eras.
Paul JasperGUEST
In the past, I had copied and I had made fine furniture.
Paul JasperGUEST
Why can't I reimagine things in a new creative way just like he did? And I left that MFA a changed person.
Paul JasperGUEST
My wife will tell you.
Samuel BiagettiHOST
That's George Whitefield's thumb.
Samuel BiagettiHOST
One is on loan, permanent loan, to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, but the actual ownership of it is disputed between two synagogue congregations.
Samuel BiagettiHOST
And one, as I mentioned, is on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean near Cape Canaveral, and the ownership is disputed between the team that discovered it and the nation of France.
Samuel BiagettiHOST
So you have to listen to that episode to see why those are the contending parties for ownership of this canon.
David WalesNARRATOR
About mid-century, teapots of inverted pear shape associated with the Rococo style began to appear.
David WalesNARRATOR
A pot of this shape is depicted in the portrait Paul Revere, painted about 1765 by John Singleton Copley and owned by the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
David WalesNARRATOR
The fact that a teapot was chosen as an example of Revere's craft from all of the objects he made indicates that such a vessel was valued as highly by its maker as by its owner.
David WalesNARRATOR
The teapot was a mark of prestige for both craftsmen and hostess.
Shantell MartinHOST
Mm.
Susan SchwalbGUEST
So a fabulous guy at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston- Help me make my first version of my inventory program.
Susan SchwalbGUEST
And that's one of the things my assistant does is she updates it.
Susan SchwalbGUEST
I mean, I update, you know, um, you know, it means I know where every artwork is.
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Shantell MartinHOST
Where did you donate those works to?
Susan SchwalbGUEST
To two museums in the West.
Susan SchwalbGUEST
One, uh, there was a wonderful curator at the Arkansas Arts Center, which is now called I think the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, and I gave them 35 silver point drawings by different artists and, um, she's not there now.
Susan SchwalbGUEST
She was going to do an important museum show I'm a little sorry.
Marc BertrandHOST
If you took a left.
T-BonePANELIST
What about the Museum of Fine Arts? Have you ever been there? No.
T-BonePANELIST
Okay.
Scott ZolakHOST
You've never driven by it? No.
Dominique DiPrimaHOST
I'm Dominique DiPrima, and I'm talking fast because I just found out we have a limited time.
Dominique DiPrimaHOST
with our guest she is um an artist um uh i i it sounds like not enough to say um she is um what the what the bio says a high voltage funketeer based in los angeles um an artist who's done um you know exhibitions at institutions you know some of the top institutions museum of fine arts in boston MOCA in Los Angeles, uh, and many other, um, you know, major, uh, metropolitan, uh, museum of art and other major, major, um, institutions in the art world, but also, uh, recently, um, installed an incredible piece called, uh, Sister Dreamer on 76th and Western, uh, born and raised in LA.
Dominique DiPrimaHOST
She's a multidisciplinary artist, um, and she's got something powerful happening, uh, coming up in about a week at the Hollywood Bowl.
Dominique DiPrimaHOST
Lauren Halsey, good morning.
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