Past Exhibitions
Material Journeys
Collecting African and Oceanic Art, 1945–2000. Selections from the Geneviève McMillan Collection
For over sixty years, Mrs. Geneviève McMillan, a Cambridge resident, has collected African and Oceanic art, a lifelong passion that began when she was...
Through Six Generations
The Weng Collection of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy
The history of the Weng Collection reads like an epic novel. Assembled primarily during the nineteenth century, the collection has survived the tumult...
SMFA Traveling Scholars
"SMFA Traveling Scholars" in the Foster Gallery presents recent work by five graduates of the School. All are working in a strong, individual style...
Donatello to Giambologna
Italian Renaissance Sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
"[The Renaissance] remains infectiously alive in this captivating exhibition."—The Boston Globe
Women of Renown
Female Heroes and Villains in the Prints of Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi uniquely combined the popular theme of beautiful women with his personal specialty, warrior prints showing legendary heroic...
Michael Mazur
The Art of the Print
This exhibition of twenty-five works, created from the late 1950s to the present, celebrates the New England painter and printmaker's gift to the MFA...
The Romance of Modernism
Paintings and Sculpture from the Scott M. Black Collection
“The Romance of Modernism” features selections from the private collection of Scott M. Black, including impressionist paintings by Cézanne, Degas...
2006 Maud Morgan Prize
Ambreen Butt
A selection of colorful mixed-media paintings by Ambreen Butt, recipient of the 2006 Maud Morgan prize, is on view in the Museum's Lower Rotunda...
Fashion Photography
Photography and fashion have been inextricably linked since the early 1900s, when fashion magazines rocketed to popularity. In "Fashion Photography,"...
Fashion Show
Paris Collections 2006
"a hit...its beauty deceptively guised in its simplicity."—The New York Times