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I like to take a different perspective on things as I think you learn different things from different approaches. This goes chronologically through a range of artists, so you can see what people were painting around the same time. Starts earlier than Impressionist Period and goes a bit later. Two sections - first On View; second Not On View. Artists listed at the end in their order of appearance in the video. Trevor Pinnock's Bach's Goldberg Variations - 7, 11 and 22.

A selection of items belonging to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, that are not currently on view. They may be in storage, out on loan, being restored, or being prepared for a future exhibit. Painters and one sculptor are listed at the end of the video. Consider it an art challenge to recognize the artist and their associated paintings. Putting the artists name into the MFA collections' website will give you a feel for an artist's style. Done to Trevor Pinnock's last theme of Bach's Goldberg Variations.

Views of the various rooms of the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston to the first theme of Bach's Goldberg Variations (Aria). This will be the first of three MFA videos. Another video will show works on view, and the third will show works that are NOT on view. It's an absolutely wonderful museum with great Egyptian, American and Japanese art.

It’s nothing personal, says Ben Ewen-Campen, he just doesn’t think French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir is much of a painter. Monday, the Harvard postdoc joined some like-minded aesthetes for a playful protest outside the Museum of Fine Arts. The rally, which mostly bewildered passersby, was organized by Max Geller, creator of the Instagram account Renoir Sucks at Painting, who wants the MFA to take its Renoirs off the walls and replace them with something better.

Whenever there are tens of millions of dollars worth of lobbying muscle behind a piece of legislation, folks seem willing to say just about anything to make a case for it. The Marketplace Fairness Act, the misguided legislation to allow states to enforce their tax laws on out-of-state businesses, is but the latest example. Here are the top 10 bogus arguments in favor of the bill.

It wasn’t that long ago that currency speculator George Soros was traveling the globe urging regulatory crackdown on the same financial sector that has allowed him to become a billionaire 14 times over. In late 2008 the preachy political radical who has given more than $8 billion to charities and left-wing causes lectured a congressional committee. “The entire regulatory framework needs to be reconsidered and hedge funds need to be regulated within that framework,” he pontificated.Soros got his wish, and the lawmakers his money helped to install in Congress dutifully approved the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act...

Janette Turner Hospital is the author of Orpheus Lost and other books, and a professor at Columbia. She sent MFA students at her old school, the University of South Carolina, the following note about their inferiority. It is amazing. Hospital sent this note to all of the MFA students on the University of South Carolina listserv. More than one of them forwarded it to us. "We're all enraged," one MFA grad from USC tells us. "She is nuts!" says another. Indeed. What's your favorite part? The personal revelations? The breathtaking undertone of insult towards those in South Carolina? Her special...

Financial expert Zubi Diamond, author of Wizards of Wall Street, says that Republican proposals to fix the economy are deficient because they fail to protect invested capital in the stock market from the hedge fund short sellers. Republican Representatives Paul Ryan and John Boehner, who voted for the $700 billion big bank bailouts that began under President Bush, have put forward much-publicized proposals to solve the economic crisis. But Diamond says he has had no luck in getting Boehner?or other top Republicans?to pay any attention to his detailed and specific plan to save the economy by reinstating the safeguard regulations...

The following is based on a report by Cliff Kincaid for Accuracy in Media. The New York Times is quoting a spokesman for George Soros as saying that the well-known hedge fund operator is guilty of no wrong-doing in connection with the financial upheaval currently affecting Greece and Europe as a whole. But Zubi Diamond, author of the powerful new book, Wizards of Wall Street, says the agenda of Soros and other short sellers is clear. Their purpose, he says, is “to loot America and any foreign country which invested in America. Greece was one of them. Iceland was ravaged...

CHICAGO — A disturbing video released exclusively to Fox News by the animal rights group Mercy for Animals (MFA) shows a string of alleged abuses at one of the nation's largest pig farms, including footage of employees picking up baby pigs and tossing them like footballs. ("In other news, 1.2 million abortions occured in 2008. And now a word from our sponser, Mr. Clean.")

We will honor all the agreements and all the undertakings of previous governments and act exactly according to the Road Map. Good afternoon, honorable outgoing Foreign Minister, honorable outgoing Deputy Foreign Minister, incoming Deputy Foreign Minister, Director-General Ministry employees, honored guests, When my fellow students and I studied international relations, and learned what an international system is, we learned that there is a State and there are international organizations and all kinds of global economic corporations. Things have changed since then and, unfortunately, in the modern system, there are countries that are semi-states. It is hard to call a country...

 On September 9, 2007, a pre-9/11 celebration of sorts will be taking place in New York City, as Islamists from across the Tri-State area will congregate there for the 22nd Annual Muslim Day Parade. If past parades are any indication, law enforcement will need to be on high alert, as the participants have been amongst the most radical in the nation. Will the city allow this denigration of a very somber day to take place, or will it remember its many victims of terrorism and shut it down? The parade is being run by the Muslim Foundation of America (MFA),...

Iraqi intelligence documents, confiscated by U.S. forces and obtained by CNSNews.com , show numerous efforts by Saddam Hussein's regime to work with some of the world's most notorious terror organizations, including al Qaeda, to target Americans. They demonstrate that Saddam's government possessed mustard gas and anthrax, both considered weapons of mass destruction, in the summer of 2000, during the period in which United Nations weapons inspectors were not present in Iraq. And the papers show that Iraq trained dozens of terrorists inside its borders. One of the Iraqi memos contains an order from Saddam for his intelligence service to support...

Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom will leave early Thursday morning for Washington, for his first trip abroad as Israel's foreign minister. Shalom is slated to address the annual AIPAC convention in Washington, in place of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Sharon was originally slated to address the conference, but cancelled because of the war in Iraq. During his visit, Shalom is scheduled to meet US Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Congressional leaders, and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Shlomo Argov was born in Jerusalem in 1929, the descendant of family which has lived in Jerusalem for seven generations. As a young man and a member of the Palmach, he was wounded in the 1948 War of Independence. Shlomo Argov studied in Washington and London and joined the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1959. A senior and distinguished diplomat, he held a number of positions in the Ministry, serving among others as Ambassador to Mexico (1971-1974) and the Netherlands (1977-1979) before assuming his post as Ambassador to Britain in 1979. On the night of June 3, 1982, Ambassador...