Past Exhibitions
Cecily Brown
"Cecily Brown's retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts is a gorgeous, enticing show. . ."—The Boston Globe
Recent Acquisitions
Gifts of Art
Celebrating recent acquisitions, this exhibition only hints at the breadth of ideas realized in a variety of media by artists today. From the sampling...
Domains of Wonder
Masterworks of Indian Painting
"God, love, death and dessert are the menu in 'Domains of Wonder'. . . a meal of avid moods and intense sensations."—The New York Times
Sara Galner, the Saturday Evening Girls, and the Paul Revere Pottery
Selections from the Bloom Collection
This installation in the Mary Stamas Gallery celebrates a recent gift of more than 130 works by the Saturday Evening Girls of the Paul Revere Pottery...
Beyond Basketry
Japanese Bamboo Art
Although woven bamboo containers have been used in Japan for thousands of years, it is only during the last century that basketry has emerged as a...
Tsutsugaki Textiles from the Collection of David and Marita Paly
While members of the Japanese Imperial household, samurai class, and wealthy merchants had the wherewithal to acquire luxurious silk garments and...
Recent Acquisitions
African Printed Textiles
The markets of West Africa are brilliant with color, and nowhere is this more true than in the stalls devoted to printed cloth. New patterns are...
Designing the Modern Utopia
Soviet Textiles from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection
“Designing the Modern Utopia” paints a fascinating picture of a uniquely Soviet experiment in social and sartorial engineering. The exhibition...
Marbling and Music
Performing Sufism at a Turkish Tekke
Within the world of Islam there are many different attitudes toward the arts. For sufis, those Muslims who follow a mystical path, creating art is...
Understanding the Master
Dong Qichang and His Circle
The controversial painter Dong Qichang (1555–1626) is alternately regarded as the greatest artist in Chinese history or simply clumsy with the brush....