Past Exhibitions
Dalí: Disruption and Devotion
Included with General Admission The outlandish and iconoclastic artist Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) is famous for his bizarre imagery and distinctive...
Hyman Bloom: Landscapes of the Mind
“Hyman Bloom: Landscapes of the Mind” invites visitors into the artist’s imagination to experience nature as he did.
Barbara Bosworth: The Meadow
In 1996 artist Barbara Bosworth (b. 1953) began photographing a meadow in Carlisle, Massachusetts, just northwest of Boston. Returning regularly over...
Community Arts Initiative: Our Family Portrait
For “Our Family Portrait,” Boston-based artist Timothy Hyunsoo Lee (b. 1990) guided more than 150 students through creating cyanotype prints...
Four Womxn: New Musings on Blackness
Inspired by “Four Women,” Nina Simone’s 1966 song of archetypes and stereotypes bestowed upon Black women, this exhibition explores those ideations...
Ancestors and Place: Indigenous North American Prints
The words ancestors and place have many connotations, but for Indigenous peoples, they are tied to all things. Place extends beyond a single location...
Songs for Modern Japan
Popular Music and Graphic Design, 1900–1950
Japan experienced a whirlwind of change between 1900 and 1950. At the turn of the century, Western music notation had become a sign of modernity...
Dress Up
“Playing dress up begins at five and never truly ends.” Fashion allows us to take on different roles, choosing clothes, jewelry, shoes, handbags, and...
Perspectives: Art from MFA Staff
Presented at the Copley Society of Art on Newbury Street, this exhibition features work by MFA staff who explore the idea of perspectives through a...
Hallyu! The Korean Wave
From tradition to trendsetting Today, South Korea is a cultural superpower—a global trendsetter producing award-winning films like Parasite, riveting...