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On View

Writing the Future
Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation

October 18, 2020–May 16, 2021

Monet and Boston: Lasting Impression

November 15, 2020–March 28, 2021

Oil painting, Masquerade, by Grace Hartigan

Women Take the Floor

September 13, 2019–November 28, 2021

view of a gallery with six different urns on pedastals

Art of the Americas

Ongoing

Portrait of a young man.

Black Histories, Black Futures

January 20, 2020–June 20, 2021

Dark grey statue of an Egyptian king and his wife with her arms wrapped around her husband.

Masterpieces of Egyptian Sculpture from the Pyramid Age

Ongoing

Iron foot scraper in shape of a rooster

Collecting Stories: The Invention of Folk Art

February 6, 2021–January 9, 2022

view of multicolored relief sculpture made up of smaller works of art created by grade school students

Community Arts Initiative: Exchange Codes

November 11, 2020–April 11, 2021

Triptych by Willie Cole featuring a self-portrait, and burn mark from an iron, and a mask. Printed in brown, with embossing and hand coloring.

Personal Space
Self-Portraits on Paper

February 8, 2020–May 30, 2021

Photo portrait of the artist with a large camera

Elsa Dorfman: Me and My Camera

February 8, 2020–May 30, 2021

Drawing of a women in conté, charcoal, and pastel coffee wash on cotton paper by Robert Pruitt titled  Birth and Rebirth and Rebirth

The Banner Project: Robert Pruitt

October 26, 2019–May 9, 2021

Ink and color on silk by Chen Hongshou, Li Bai's Night Revel in Peach and Plum Garden

Weng Family Collection of Chinese Painting: Family and Friends

October 12, 2019–March 31, 2021

Conservators working on Japanese Buddha sculpture

Conservation in Action: Japanese Buddhist Sculpture in a New Light

December 15, 2018–July 3, 2022

picture of a mural with little girl blowing bubbles surrounded by books

The Mural Project

Ongoing—On View at Madison Park High School

Gallery Highlights

Installation view of the mummies gallery, people looking at mummies

Mummies

View of Hamilton Palace Dining Room, with display cases of silverware

Hamilton Palace Dining Room

Wide view of gallery with high ceiling and reddish walled, with European paintings and silver on walls

European Painting 1550–1700 and Hanoverian Silver

Plein Air

Gallery 143 Kunstkammer View 1

Kunstkammer Gallery

View of Art of Benin Kingdom gallery, with bronze head in foreground and bronze plaques on wall in background

Benin Kingdom Gallery

View of display case featuring British decorative arts from 16th through 19th centuries

British Art 1560–1830

View of Arts of Korea gallery, with several display cases featuring Korean pottery

Arts of Korea

Mask (Hudoq), made by Dayak peoples in Borneo, Indonesia

Arts of the Pacific

Boris Bally's silver and brass adornment, Fixator Armform

Studio Craft and Beyond
Highlights from the Contemporary Collection

Newland House Drawing Room

South and Southeast Asian Art

Detail of Ottoman tile lunette

Arts of Islamic Cultures

Detail fo Chinese sculpture, Guanyin, Bodhisattva of Compassion

Chinese Song Dynasty Gallery

Detail of painting, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? by Paul Gauguin

Impressionism and Beyond: Urban Life and Escape

View of English Regency gallery, with round table in foreground and chandelier above

Art of the English Regency

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