El Anatsui, "Black River," 2009  photo by Tony Rinaldo
Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art: September 18, 2011 - December 31, 2016

Contemporary art has a dynamic home at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art, located in the MFA’s dramatic I. M. Pei-designed building. The wing features seven galleries introducing innovative approaches to contemporary art within the context of...

Daniel Rich, "Milad Tower," Tehran, 2012
Daniel Rich: Platforms of Power September 29, 2012 - March 31, 2013

Remembered by SMFA faculty and staff as a particularly disciplined student, New York painter Daniel Rich has spent a decade investigating the link between architecture, nationalism, and political power. Rich works from Google images, newspapers, and his own photographs. His labor-intensive and...

Harumi Nakashima, "Work - 0808," 2008
New Blue and White: February 20, 2013 - July 14, 2013

"Blue and white" means, at its simplest, cobalt pigment applied to white clay. Over the course of a millennium, blue-and-white porcelain has become one of the most recognized types of ceramic production worldwide. With roots in the Islamic world and Asia, and strong presence in Europe and...

Ridley Howard
Ridley Howard: Fields and Stripes May 11, 2013 - October 27, 2013

Since graduating from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA 1999), Ridley Howard has explored how 21st-century painting might capture intense yet oblique emotion. He pares down color and geometry into delicately composed portraits, landscapes, and abstractions that recall the cool psychology...