Past Exhibitions
Making Past Present: Cy Twombly
January 14–May 7, 2023
Unique among his peers at the vanguard of postwar American art, Cy Twombly (1928–2011) sought inspiration from ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian...
SMFA at Tufts: Archive and Autobiography
November 19, 2022–April 16, 2023
Archives shape our feelings about memory, history, geography, storytelling, and ourselves. Traditional archives might look like a storage facility, a...
Frank Bowling’s Americas
October 22, 2022–April 9, 2023
“Modernism belonged to me also.” So resolved British Guiana–born artist Frank Bowling in 1966, when he moved from London to New York City, impelled by...
Body Awareness: Maria Lassnig’s Experimental Films
October 15, 2022–April 2, 2023
Although best known as a painter, Maria Lassnig (1919–2014) began to experiment with film in 1970. From that point on, she created animations using...
LIFE Magazine and the Power of Photography
October 9, 2022–January 16, 2023
Reconsidering the pictures we remember. Revealing the stories we don’t know.
Portraits of Leadership
Responses to the Obama Portraits
September 3–October 30, 2022
Get Tickets Included with General Admission Portraits from the community featuring leaders of all kinds What does leadership look like? In response to...
The Obama Portraits Tour
September 3–October 30, 2022
Get Tickets Timed-Entry Ticket Required The acclaimed portraits of President Barack Obama and Mrs. Michelle Obama come to the MFA on the final stop of...
The Stillness of Things
Photographs from the Lane Collection
August 27, 2022–February 27, 2023
This exhibition presents nearly 60 innovative photographs—all departures from the traditional still life—drawn from the MFA’s Lane Collection. Grouped...
Community Arts Initiative: Empowered Faces
June 3–October 24, 2022
“Empowered Faces” is a mixed-media mural that showcases young artists’ self-portraits through abstracted forms. Artist and educator Perla Mabel...
Philip Guston Now
May 1–September 11, 2022
Experience a retrospective of Philip Guston’s work, from Depression-era muralist and painter to contemporary master and voice for social justice.