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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: honor the past and re-imagine the future for the 150th anniversary of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2020

November foliage turns to Native American Heritage Month and Thanksgiving. Every week I pass by Cyrus Dallin's monumental sculpture "Appeal to the Great Spirit" as I climb up the marble steps to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Earlier this year, the MFA held a sold-out lecture to reexamine the sculpture from multiple perspectives; does the work portray a dignified Native American figure, as the artist intended, or does it simply uphold a 19th-century stereotype of Native Americans as a "vanishing race"? 

We traveled to Napa Valley last month for a long weekend to celebrate a family wedding. Always eager to see the local art community, we enjoyed time in St. Helena, where we visited Caldwell Snyder Gallery (profiled below) and Hall Wines. The trip made an impact and has stayed in my mind. As you walk into the impressive glass and concrete building at Hall, you are met with a massive, imposing even, Nick Cave tondo to the left of the front desk. Made of found beaded and sequined clothing, "Garden Plot" is sparkling and dynamic.