{"id":127394,"date":"2026-06-07T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/?post_type=bu-article&#038;p=127394"},"modified":"2026-06-08T10:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:40:09","slug":"the-museum-of-the-mind-james-gold","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/magazine\/articles\/2026\/the-museum-of-the-mind-james-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"The Museum of the Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin magazine-block-editorial-leadin is-style-emphasis-on-text has-media has-box has-media-focus-center-middle\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container-lockup\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-leadin-media\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"4000\" height=\"2413\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-MosaicExcavation-Gold.jpg\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-MosaicExcavation-Gold.jpg 4000w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-MosaicExcavation-Gold-636x384.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-MosaicExcavation-Gold-1024x618.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-MosaicExcavation-Gold-768x463.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-MosaicExcavation-Gold-1536x927.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-MosaicExcavation-Gold-2048x1235.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-MosaicExcavation-Gold-1628x982.jpg 1628w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4000px) 100vw, 4000px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-outer\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin-caption wp-prepress-component-caption\">Mosaic Excavation with Carpets <em>(2024)<\/em> <em>Egg tempera, acrylic gouache, and India ink on panel; 36 x 60 in. The painting hangs on the wall of Boston University&#8217;s Mugar Memorial Library. <\/em><br><em>Images courtesy of James Gold<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-inner\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-prepress-tag\">CFA Alumni<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"head\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Museum of the Mind\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"deck\">Inspired by objects unearthed on archaeological digs, James Gold paints artifacts of his own invention, from papyrus scrolls to woven tapestries to stone mosaics<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar magazine-prepress-layout-metabar\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-date\">June 7, 2026<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul data-credit-type=\"By\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/magazine\/authors\/sophie-yarin\/\">Sophie Yarin<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-introparagraph magazine-block-editorial-introparagraph is-style-default has-paragraph-color-quaternary\"><div class=\"wp-block-editorial-introparagraph-content\"><p>The painting before you, <em>Mosaic Excavation with Carpets<\/em>, depicts two artifacts emerging from the mists of antiquity: a woven tapestry and a ceramic mosaic, the former partially covering the latter. Both objects are meticulously rendered\u2014the madder dye, the weft weave, the patina of the fired clay. You can see the fibers within the textile\u2019s frayed edges, the mortar that joins the mosaic\u2019s pieces. No archaeological detail is too small, no attribute left out.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The painting is real. It hangs, five feet wide and three feet tall, on the wall of BU\u2019s Mugar Memorial Library. The artifacts it depicts are not. They were born in the mind of the painter, James Gold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy work has to do with transformation, taking something real and then using intuition and imagination to transform it into something else,\u201d says Gold (\u201924). \u201cThese objects have a past, even though they\u2019re entirely fictional.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to the museum of the mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Digging In<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-Wide-Net-Gold-1024x801.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-127389\" width=\"822\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-Wide-Net-Gold-1024x801.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-Wide-Net-Gold-636x498.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-Wide-Net-Gold-768x601.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-Wide-Net-Gold-1536x1202.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-Wide-Net-Gold-2048x1602.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-Wide-Net-Gold-1278x1000.jpg 1278w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 822px) 100vw, 822px\" \/><figcaption><em>Wide Net<\/em> (2024) Egg tempera, acrylic gouache, and India ink on panel; 16 x 20 in.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>How do you create an imaginary historical artifact so convincing that it wouldn\u2019t seem out of place in an antiquities collection? The answer: lots and lots of research. Gold, who came to the School of Visual Arts for his master\u2019s degree in painting after completing his bachelor\u2019s at The Cooper Union, kindled a lifelong fascination with archaeology while growing up in Providence, R.I. His mother, a librarian, would often save for him books the library was planning to toss, including volumes on the history of design and accounts of famous archaeological digs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always surprising, the little things that will come up in research,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m interested in how different interiors are made, what the different materials and trends were, the history of ornamentation, and how it applies through time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The books were a jumping-off point for Gold\u2019s imagination: by collaging images he found compelling, he was able to compare a medieval European tapestry to an Ottoman one, Byzantine mosaics alongside ancient Roman frescoes. The cultural and geological contexts would blend together, creating a new archaeological epoch in his mind\u2014one with its own handicraft processes and aesthetics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll put an ancient [artifact] next to modern art, or combine different historical bits or anything that just feels a bit incongruous,\u201d he says, \u201cBut I\u2019ll weave them together in a way that visually makes sense.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Gold claims not to favor any particular historical era, his most striking works, done in mixed media on large-scale wood panels, evoke the Classic civilizations of the Mediterranean: Greco-Roman, Etruscan, early Byzantine. His fondness for rich hues, sumptuous textures, and heraldry are evident in his <em>Night &amp; Day<\/em> diptych, which features two sets of ancient symbols\u2014twirling vines, crossed arrows, crescent moons, and astrolabes\u2014one set rendered in deep indigo and the other in vivid crimson and gold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"605\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-HeraldryDuo-Night-and-Day-1024x605.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-127404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-HeraldryDuo-Night-and-Day-1024x605.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-HeraldryDuo-Night-and-Day-636x376.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-HeraldryDuo-Night-and-Day-768x454.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-HeraldryDuo-Night-and-Day-1536x907.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-HeraldryDuo-Night-and-Day-2048x1210.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-HeraldryDuo-Night-and-Day-1628x962.jpg 1628w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><em>Heraldry Duo\/Night &amp; Day <\/em>(2023) Egg tempera, acrylic gouache, and India ink on panel; two panels, each 20 x 16 in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen I was at BU, I discovered this encyclopedia of heraldry, which included some of the images I used in <em>Night &amp; Day<\/em>\u2014which also looks like an ancient Roman mosaic in some ways,\u201d he says. \u201cI make these artifacts by taking something from one source and transferring it through another, like heraldry into mosaic, or a mosaic into weaving. It\u2019s a game to be played through painting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his time at BU, Gold also felt compelled to audit an archaeology class taught by Andrea Berlin, a College of Arts &amp; Sciences professor of archaeology and religion, and the James R. Wiseman Chair in Classical Archaeology at CAS. She picked up on his enthusiasm&nbsp;and, once the course had ended for the semester, secured him a spot on an archaeological dig in Larnaka, Cyprus\u2014not a common occurrence for most CFA students. His job was to make detailed illustrations of whatever the researchers unearthed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"914\" height=\"1024\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-Fluffy-Gold-914x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-127392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-Fluffy-Gold-914x1024.jpg 914w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-Fluffy-Gold-568x636.jpg 568w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-Fluffy-Gold-768x860.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-Fluffy-Gold-1371x1536.jpg 1371w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-Fluffy-Gold-1829x2048.jpg 1829w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-Fluffy-Gold-893x1000.jpg 893w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 914px) 100vw, 914px\" \/><figcaption><em>Fluffy<\/em> (2024) Egg tempera, acrylic gouache, and India ink on panel; 26.5 x 23 in.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was a different way of approaching objects: rather than just describing the textures and painting it free-form, or simply inventing things, it\u2019s all about exact measurements on a one-to-one scale,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m&nbsp;holding this object in my gloved hand, trying to draw it like a photograph.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ensconced in the Larnaka Museum, Gold&nbsp;made his way through a backlog of finds, re-creating them with a Staedtler pen through an&nbsp;intricate process that showed each crack, divot, and warp more intimately than a photograph could. Working in such an exacting, scientific manner was a sort of boot camp for the artist, and it bore a lasting influence on his process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m trying to see how convincing of a texture I can get, how convincing of an artifact,\u201d he says. \u201cDoes this seem like something that has always existed?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Creating Something Real<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think a lot about the sense of touch when I\u2019m working on a painting,\u201d Gold says. \u201cIf I\u2019m feeling a cool tile floor or the woven fibers of a textile, how do I translate that?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main tools in his arsenal are egg tempera, India ink, and acrylic gouache, which he uses in different proprietary combinations to recreate the velvety feel of papyrus or the smooth gloss of ceramic, at times layering medium on top of medium. Sometimes he\u2019ll mix his own paints and gessos, adding marble chalk to give them extra granularity. He\u2019ll also use sandpaper to slough away layers of paint and gesso to achieve roughness, or scratch at the surface with a stylus. The finished product has gone through layer upon layer of iteration to achieve realism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-PapyrusScrollOnCoral-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-127391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-PapyrusScrollOnCoral-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-PapyrusScrollOnCoral-636x426.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-PapyrusScrollOnCoral-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-PapyrusScrollOnCoral-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-PapyrusScrollOnCoral-2048x1370.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-PapyrusScrollOnCoral-1495x1000.jpg 1495w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-PapyrusScrollOnCoral-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/12\/Museum-of-the-Mind-CFA-Mag-SP26-PapyrusScrollOnCoral-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><em>Papyrus Scroll on Coral<\/em> (2023) Oil paint, India ink, acrylic gouache and pigmented gesso on fabric-wrapped panel; 30 x 47 in. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI feel like there\u2019s a little bit of an alchemical or ritual sense to my process for each material,\u201d he says. \u201cPeople will say, \u2018I can\u2019t believe it\u2019s not really a textured mosaic on the wall, or a textured carpet.\u2019 I\u2019m like, Go ahead and touch it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think about presentation a lot, and I do feel like I\u2019m making an imaginary museum,\u201d says Gold. \u201cEach viewer has a subjective experience, too, in terms of what\u2019s real or what\u2019s invented. I enjoy all of the different reactions that I get.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-bu-pullquote magazine-block-bu-pullquote is-style-modern has-image-focus-center-middle has-tertiary-theme\"><div class=\"wp-block-bu-pullquote-inner\"><blockquote><div class=\"container-lockup\"><div class=\"container-icon-outer\"><div class=\"container-icon-inner\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"container-text\"><hr\/><div class=\"quote-sizing\">These objects have a past, even though they\u2019re entirely fictional.<br\/><\/div><footer class=\"caption\">James Gold (CFA&#8217;24)<\/footer><hr\/><\/div><\/div><\/blockquote><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The museum of the mind was open for business in September, at Gold\u2019s first solo show. Following a residency at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, he showed eight works at an exhibition at the Morgan Lehman Gallery in Manhattan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-end-of-article\">\u201cIt\u2019s fun to have a kind of control over what\u2019s real,\u201d he says, \u201cand having this sense of illusion and play is definitely the driving force behind all of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories is-style-card has-three magazine-block-editorial-relatedstories\">\n\t\t<h3 class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-title\">Related<\/h3>\n\t\t<ul class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-list\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-list-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<article class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"1800\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2025\/05\/Felt-With-Feeling-CFASTUBBS-001.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/05\/Felt-With-Feeling-CFASTUBBS-001.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/05\/Felt-With-Feeling-CFASTUBBS-001-424x636.jpg 424w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/05\/Felt-With-Feeling-CFASTUBBS-001-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/05\/Felt-With-Feeling-CFASTUBBS-001-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/05\/Felt-With-Feeling-CFASTUBBS-001-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2025\/05\/Felt-With-Feeling-CFASTUBBS-001-667x1000.jpg 667w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article-category\"><span>CFA Alumni<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/magazine\/articles\/2025\/felt-with-feeling\/\" class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article-title-link\">Felt, with Feeling<\/a><\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article-date\">July 23, 2025<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-list-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<article class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1980\" height=\"1020\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2024\/04\/2024-CFA-Kahn-Award-Recipients-Final.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2024\/04\/2024-CFA-Kahn-Award-Recipients-Final.png 1980w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2024\/04\/2024-CFA-Kahn-Award-Recipients-Final-636x328.png 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2024\/04\/2024-CFA-Kahn-Award-Recipients-Final-1024x528.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2024\/04\/2024-CFA-Kahn-Award-Recipients-Final-768x396.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2024\/04\/2024-CFA-Kahn-Award-Recipients-Final-1536x791.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2024\/04\/2024-CFA-Kahn-Award-Recipients-Final-1628x839.png 1628w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article-category\"><span>Visual Arts<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/news\/articles\/2024\/kahn-awards-recipients\/\" class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article-title-link\">Meet the 2024 CFA Esther B. and Albert S. 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