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 exhibitions 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
October 4 - New Thoughts on Old Things: Four Centuries of Furnishing the Northeast
October 9 - Voices of the Qur'an SOLD OUT October 23 - In Sargent's Footsteps, A Conversation October 30 - Shiva, Lord of the Dance: An Ancient Image Born and Re-born SOLD OUT November 13 - Sargent's Sibling Rivalry presented by Malcolm Rogers SOLD OUT November 20 - The Monuments Men December 4 - Who Is Andy Warhol? And Why is He So Important? Sundays at the MFA November 3 - Museum of Fine Arts-Boston Lyric Opera Signature Series "Lizzie Borden Took an Axe" November 10 - Afternoon with Proust, Lecture and Performance SOLD OUT December 8 - Made in the Shade: Sargent's Watercolors of Italian Villa Gardens
Evenings with Creative Minds: The Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Celebrity Lectures
SOLD OUT November 6 - Arlo Guthrie: Stories as Told by Arlo and Family
December 11 - Richard Blanco: The Poetry of an American Dream
December 12 - Richard Blanco: The Poetry of an American Dream
SOLD OUT February 5 - Dennis Lehane: Lehane's Boston on the Page and Big Screen
SOLD OUT April 2 - Marina Abramovic: MAI: Marina Abramovic Institute
Courses
Remember Flower Power?, Tuesday Mornings and Thursday Evenings October 1-24
The Middle East: A Mosaic of History, Art, and Culture, Wednesday Afternoons October 2-December 11
John Singer Sargent: A Fresh Look, Tuesday Mornings and Thursday Evenings November 5-21
Looking Together
SOLD OUT Potpourri with Nancy Ketterer
SOLD OUT Four Seasons in Art with John Hermanson
SOLD OUT The Middle East and Culture with curators Kristen Gresh and Laura Weinstein
SOLD OUT By the MFA Hearth: At Home in Massachusetts with curators Dennis Carr and Nonie Gadsden
SOLD OUT Sargent and Watercolor with Lana Sloutsky
Asian Art 101 with Martha Wright, Monday Afternoon Section
Asian Art 101 with Martha Wright, Wednesday Evening Section
SOLD OUT America, Europe, Nature, Impressionism with Miriam Braverman, Monday Afternoon Section
SOLD OUT America, Europe, Nature, Impressionism with Miriam Braverman, Tuesday Afternoon Section
SOLD OUT America, Europe, Nature, Impressionism with Miriam Braverman, Thursday Afternoon Section
Material matters: Stone, Wood, Metal, and Clay with Martha Wright
SOLD OUT 400 Years of American Furniture with John Hermanson
Dialogues with Film: The Novel Film with Kristen Lauerman and Dylan Leavitt
Sparklingly Chic with curators Michelle Finamore, Christine Kondoleon, Lauren Whitley
The New Dutch and Flemish Galleries with Curatorial Research Associate Claire Whitner
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