Past Exhibitions
Resounding Ragas
Paintings and Musical Memory in India
Indian paintings depicting music visually evoke aspects of specific modes called ragas. The word raga is derived from the Sanskrit root ranj, which...
Contemporary Outlook: German Photography
In the 1920s and early ‘30s German photography was dominated by two distinct approaches to making images. The first, associated with the work and...
Contemporary Selections
Recent gifts and purchases have substantially added to the Museum’s collection of late twentieth-century art. This rotation features a variety of...
Contemporary Outlook: Japan
Since Japan dropped its longstanding policy of national isolation in the 1850s, there has been an immensely creative give-and-take between the...
Jewelry by Artists
The Daphne Farago Collection
Beginning in the mid-twentieth century, studio jewelry artists—working independently of the commercial jewelry industry—made innovative jewelry that...
Ed Rossbach Fiber Art from the Daphne Farago Collection
The MFA celebrates the recent gift of more than forty works by Ed Rossbach in "Ed Rossbach Fiber Art from the Daphne Farago Collection." One of the...
Giant Inspirations
The Artist Project for the Community Arts Initiative
"Giant Inspirations" is an interactive video-projection technique that transforms people into monumental works of art. From October 2006 through May...
Glittering Gold
Illumination in Islamic Art
Koran verses from as early as the eighth century were embellished with elaborate gold illumination that was later extended to frontispieces and...
Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper's luminous paintings captured classic images of middle-class America and made him one of the most popular artists of the twentieth...
War and Discontent
Among the masterpieces in the MFA’s collection are three exceptional works inspired by contemporary political events: Edouard Manet's extraordinary...