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Martin Puryear: Nexus

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Against a dark background, a table of tropical fruit, flowers, and insects are arranged in an ornate display.

Rachel Ruysch: Artist, Naturalist, and Pioneer

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Brick obelisk, brick dome, and brick panels with writing in Spanish on them.

Rituals for Remembering: María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Ana Mendieta

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A colorful scene modeled after Picasso's 'Guernica.'

Counter History

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Nude figures in a field shepherd and ride an elaborate structure made out of bones.

The Bold and the Beautiful

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Gold tapestry made from bottle caps and foil

Ebb and Flow

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A Historic Ownership Resolution

The MFA has reached an agreement regarding two stoneware vessels in the collection made by David Drake, an enslaved potter and poet from Old Edgefield, South Carolina. The Museum has restored ownership of both works to the artist’s known descendants, returning one to the family and purchasing the other back. Learn more about this historic agreement.

For more on Drake’s work—on view in the Art of the Americas Wing—watch the artist's fourth-generation granddaughters and grandson reflect on what his pottery means to them, and read an essay by author Charmaine Wilkerson.

Map of the United States of America in washed primary colors with names of Indigenous tribal nations in place of Western place names.

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Tribal Map, 2000. Mixed media on canvas. Museum purchase with funds donated by Barbara L. and Theodore B. Alfond through the Acorn Foundation, Drs. Bruce K. and Shelly Eckman, The Heritage Fund for a Diverse Collection, Gallery Instructor 50th Anniversary Fund to support The Heritage Fund for a Diverse Collection, and The Hayden Collection—Charles Henry Hayden Fund. Courtesy the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York.

Celebrate Native American Heritage Month

Works by Native artists can be found around the Museum, including Tribal Map by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith in “Counter History,” and a group of blackware pottery by Pueblo artists in “Stories Artists Tell.” Explore these works with Marina Tyquiengco, Ellyn McColgan Associate Curator of Native American Art, through two new stops on MFA Mobile on Bloomberg Connects.

Dive deeper with Tyquiengco as she takes a closer look at Fritz Scholder’s Bicentennial Indian, which features prominently in the MFA’s reimagined 18th-century Art of the Americas galleries, opening with the 250th anniversary of American Independence in 2026.

A man stands beside a fallen tree branch on a mountaintop.

Homer at Home and Abroad

Seven places where he found beauty and inspiration
A Native American man in a blue button-down shirt stares straight forward with an upside-down American flag draped over his shoulders.

America at 250

Reflecting on American art from the collection
A woman and child sit at a table and paint.

Boston Family Days

Free admission for Boston students on first and second Sundays
"Here All Belong" overlaid on top of grid of four artwork details: a drawing of a Black man with short hair and a mustache; a painting of a red-haired white woman with a flower in her hair; a painting of a white woman in a hat and fur coat reclining; a sculpture of an Egyptian king

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