We visited the Davis Museum for the first exhibit in the US dedicated solely to Carlo Dolci. This exhibit included loans from across the globe including the Louvre, the Met and even two from our familiar Ringling Museum in Sarasota which we visit annually. The Madona shown below is very familiar to us.
Elsewhere in the museum there was lots of action! In response to Trump's immigration policies, the director, Lisa Fischman, (shown below at rear) and her staff were in the process of removing or draping works that were created by or donated by immigrants.
We loved this exhibit of African art and were able to see most of it before the drapes were pulled down.
In the evening we attended a lecture/panel/talk/conversation between Mark Lilla of Columbia and Tom Cushman of Wellesley. Tom is a frequent golf partner of Paul and one of the few conservative faculty at Wellesley. In this Freedom Project he attempts to offer speakers with many political points of view. A recent piece piece by Mark Lilla, "The End of Identity Liberalism" in the November 18 New York Times has been controversial, and the discussion was lively. We heard that several of the posters were defaced.
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