Norton Museum of Art: Kulapat Yastrasat Humanities and Human Flourishing; 

January 10, 2020

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Norton Director Elliot Davis joins Kulapat Yantrasast, leading thinker on art and psychology for a conversation about connections between the arts, personal growth, and well-being.

 

Kulapat Yantrasast received degrees in Architecture from the University of Tokyo before working as architect Tadao Ando’s close associate for eight years. In 2009, Kulapat was the first architect to receive the Silpathorn Award for Design from Thailand’s Ministry of Culture, and in 2012 he was named one of the art world’s 100 Most Powerful People. He is the founding partner and creative of wHY, an interdisciplinary design practice in Los Angeles. Norton Director Elliot Bostwick Davis joins Yantrasast for a discussion of Human Flourishing and the arts.

Elliot Bostwick Davis: "Reimagining American Art"

April 27, 2017

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In 2010 the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston, opened its new wing dedicated to the Arts of the Americas, a transformation led by Elliot Bostwick Davis, John Moors Cabot Chair, Art of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In her lecture, she reflects on the MFA's evolution and what it means to tell the story of American art in an encyclopedic museum.

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Curator Elliot Bostwick Davis Introduces Jamie Wyeth

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Take a first look at the Jamie Wyeth exhibition with curator Elliot Bostwick Davis. Explore the imaginative, provocative, and original world of Jamie Wyeth at the artist's first major retrospective

Elliot Bostwick Davis:

Jamie Wyeth: Get Into Reality

August 20, 2014

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Elliot Bostwick Davis, Ph.D., John Moors Cabot Chair at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, curated the 2014 Jamie Wyeth retrospective, which spans six decades of Wyeth’s career. She discuses the artist’s various modes of representational painting in the context of art past and present.

Frida Kahlo: Life and Works

September 12, 2016

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Curator Elliot Bostwick Davis shares her perspective on Frida Kahlo's "Dos Mujeres (Salvatora y Herminia)" on Facebook Live!

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Mark Rothko: The Artist's Reality

October 03, 2017

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Explore with the curator of “Mark Rothko: Reflection,” Rothko’s early painting Thru the Window (1938–39), never before exhibited in the United States and on view in the exhibition, as a starting point for our examination of the evolution of the artist’s artistic vision. Davis gives pecial attention to Rothko’s admiration for the art of the Old Masters as described in his writings with the working title, The Artist’s Reality.

American Revolution: Thomas Sully and The Passage of the Delaware

December 30, 2016

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In making a name for himself as a history painter, Thomas Sully (1783–1872) created the MFA’s monumental painting, The Passage of the Delaware (1819), as a new mode of painting that he described as a “historical portrait.” Hear the behind-the-scenes story of its creation and follow the painting’s journey from the State House of Raleigh, North Carolina, to Boston.