Past Exhibitions
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...
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...
Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party
For more than five decades photojournalist Stephen Shames (b. 1947) has used his work to call attention to a wide range of social issues—from the...
Dinorá Justice: The Lay of the Land
Brazilian American artist Dinorá Justice (b. 1969) uses a distinct visual vocabulary to examine intertwined histories of gender, landscape, and visual...
Creative Spaces: The Photographer’s Studio as Inspiration
A photographer’s studio is a laboratory of creativity—a physical and psychological space for meditation, collaboration, and experimentation. “Creative...
Mondrian: Foundations
In the years around 1900, before Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) created some of the most recognizable abstract canvases of the last century, he turned his...