Join us for intriguing lectures related to the Museum's special exhibitions and timely art topics. Speakers include artists and art experts from around the world. Or expand your art horizons with one-day to ten-session offerings designed to complement the latest MFA special exhibition or explore art-related themes. Sundays feature special events celebrating holidays, music, writers, and technology. The Looking Together program encounters the MFA's collections in small groups led by knowledgeable, enthusiastic instructors that engage in discussion, conversation, and activity.

Lectures

February 20—Loïs Mailou Jones as Pioneer and Friend

March 6—Messages from the Postcard Age: Lauder Postcards

April 3—Deborah and Martin Hale Visiting Artist Lecture: Beauty and Horror: Kissing Cousins

April 10—Robert J. Boardingham Memorial Lecture: The Critical Fortunes of Paul Cézanne

April 24—Esther Steinberg Memorial Architecture Lecture: The Vertical Garden: Biological Design and Urban Architecture

May 8—Barbara and Burton Stern Lecture: Michelangelo as Draftsman

Sundays at the MFA

January 13—Museum of Fine Arts—Boston Lyric Opera Signature Series: Genesis—Clemency

February 24—Museum of Fine Arts—Boston Lyric Opera Signature Series: Mozart’s Women—Così fan Tutte

March 3—Kathryn C. Buhler Lecture: Jewish Life and Judaica in Colonial America

March 10—Rad Smith Program in Japanese Art: Ikenobo Ikebana 550th-Year Celebration

March 17—Estelle Shohet Brettman Memorial Lecture: A Remarkable Story: Salvaging a 5th-Century Egyptian Church

March 24—Barbara W. Herman Memorial Lecture: Maat in the Making: Ancient Egyptian Jewelry

April 7—Museum of Fine Arts—Boston Lyric Opera Signature Series: Ocean, Thou Mighty Monster—The Flying Dutchman

May 5—Karsh Lecture in Photography: Sebastião Salgado’s Genesis: Discover the Majesty of Our Planet

May 19—Symposium Presented in Collaboration with the Boston Institute of Psychotherapy: Cultivating Creativity

The Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Celebrity Lectures

SOLD OUT December 12—Moshe Safdie: Architecture with a Purpose

SOLD OUT December 13—Moshe Safdie: Architecture with a Purpose

SOLD OUT January 23—Zadie Smith: Why Write?

SOLD OUT January 24—Zadie Smith: Why Write?

SOLD OUT February 6—Lena Dunham and Laurie Simmons, Mother and Daughter: The Voices of Two Generations

March 13—Kehinde Wiley: Ten Years of Painting

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