On behalf of the board of trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, we are responding to Sebastian Smee’s article “Masterpieces on loan leave MFA walls lacking” (Page A1, Nov. 25).
Smee takes issue with 26 paintings on loan. However, he fails to mention the 21,000 works on view at the MFA, which themselves represent only a small percentage of the museum’s global collections. Loans and touring exhibitions enable us to share our works with the world and rotate others in the MFA’s 130 galleries.
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what a pathetic response. doesnt even counter the thrust of the critiqued article, a little bristly about any challenge to the way the MFA decisions are made ... my membership is done until there is meaningful reform within MFA ... this is the same attitude by my social "betters" that was evident out at Brandeis when the Rose Art Gallery was about to be plundered. money, money, money. yeah, this is all about sharing.