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
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 24—Barbara W. Herman Memorial Lecture: Maat in the Making: Ancient Egyptian Jewelry
May 5—Karsh Lecture in Photography: Sebastião Salgado’s Genesis: Discover the Majesty of Our Planet
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?
Courses
Wednesday Afternoons March 6–May 15: Japan: A Cultural History of the Land of the Rising Sun
Tuesday Mornings or Thursday Evenings February 5–March 7: A Visual Journey to North and South Korea
Tuesday Mornings or Thursday Evenings March 12–28: What Makes a Masterpiece?
Looking Together
Look Here! Posture and Gesture with Martha Wright
Ceramics Across the Centuries with John Hermanson
European Portraiture with Claire Whitner
Monday Afternoon Section: Contemporary in Context with Liz Munsell and Maggie Cavallo
Thursday Evening Section: Contemporary in Context with Liz Munsell and Maggie Cavallo
To the Mountains with Karen Quinn
A Grand Tour with Lana Sloutsky
MFA Masterpieces with John Hermanson
Sovereign but Separate: Korea, Japan, China with Martha Wright
Monday Section: The Art of War with Miriam Braverman
Tuesday Section: The Art of War with Miriam Braverman
Thursday Section: The Art of War with Miriam Braverman
Dialogues with Film: Changing Technology with Kristen Lauerman and Dylan Leavitt
The African American Experience with Nancy Ketterer
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