It needs to do more than just invite people to the museum itself, Third Decade writes:

... They have a great series of programs for kids, but where is the programming that engages young professionals or adults of color? Where's their support for any of the Boston Open Studios? If they want to engage people of color who are interested in the arts, why not support or have some connection to Roxbury, Dorchester, or JP Open Studios at least? Additionally, they missed a golden opportunity during Roxbury Film Festival. Hundreds of people of color, including myself, came to the museum to view some of the films being screened there. Not once was I asked to become a member nor did anyone suggest that I explore some of the collections or even the bookstore. Was the marketing department asleep for the entire year prior to the film festival? ...

Anali took in the MFA exhibit last week:

... There is a holiness to the exhibit. I felt like I was in church at certain points and found myself saying little prayers and feeling spiritually overwhelmed. ...

Dave Daniels writes:

If you've got an evil and sadistic brother like mine, it brings back memories of my little sister's doll's heads being removed from their bodies. And her youthful screams of horror. And a local dog running by with one of the heads in his mouth as he made for the forest with said severed heads. ...

Joel Brown reports on the museum's re-opened Fenway entrance and new visitor center, which reporters, employees and big donors got a tour of today - and which everybody can see for free on Sunday:

... My favorite part of the Fenway project is "Day and Night," a two-part sculpture by Antonio Lopez Garcia, which has been outside the Huntington doors for a few months and flanks the re-opened Fenway entrance. Even [museum honcho] Rogers refers to the sculpture as "the giant baby heads," which sounds hilarious when he says it in that plummy accent of his. The sculpture adds an odd, arty, irreverent tone to the scene, which helps set off the forbidding monumentality of that face of the museum, with its 22 Ionic columns, each 36 feet tall. The baby heads are only 8 feet tall, and weigh about a ton and a half each, but they make a dramatically wacky statement in their present position. Kudos to Gail and Ernest von Metzsch for the gift. ...

Geoff Edgers repors on a dispute between people in wheelchairs and the museum. The museum says that, effective this week, it will, upon request, send a contractor out to help somebody in a wheelchair get through the construction zone.

Lorianne DiSabato looks at Endlessly Repeating Twentieth Century Modernism at the MFA.

Geoff Edgers explains their meaning.

Thomas Garvey: Have the folks singing State Street's praises actually seen the monstrosity Malcolm Rogers is planning to build?

... Admittedly, the State Street moolah will only fund the $500 million monster indirectly - but really, if it was ever appropriate to "starve the beast," this is just such a time. ...

Joel Brown is shocked, shocked that a newspaper in Idaho misspells the name of the street the MFA is on.

Larry Davidson was enjoying the Americans in Paris exhibit when the PA started blaring an emergency was underway and everybody had to leave the building:

... There were a lot of foreign visitors, many of whom were understandably confused. We got to the escalators, with a couple of hundred people ahead of us, and noticed that everyone was slowly lined up waiting patiently for the down escalator, while the up escalator was dutifully carrying nobody on its way upstairs. So we promptly pushed the red stop button and walked down, followed by half of other guests. Why didn't anyone else think of that? ...

Outside, he saw six fire trucks arrive.