Past Exhibitions
Community Arts Initiative: Building with Light
Over the past school year, students from the Museum’s ten Community Arts Initiative (CAI) partners visited the MFA with artist Julie Martini as part of the MFA’s 12th annual Artist Project.
Botticelli and the Search for the Divine
This exhibition is the largest, most important display of Botticelli's works in the US.
An Enchanted Land
A Century of Indian Paintings at the MFA
"An Enchanted Land" celebrates the centennial of the MFA’s collection of Indian art with a display of some of the most extraordinary examples of...
Darkness Made Visible
Derek Jarman and Mark Bradford
The exhibition pairs Derek Jarman’s final feature-length film Blue (1993) with Mark Bradford’s video installation Spiderman (2015)—both riveting first...
Memory Unearthed
The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross
“Memory Unearthed” offers an extraordinarily rare glimpse of life inside the Lodz Ghetto during its existence from 1940 to 1944, through the lens of Polish Jewish photojournalist Henryk Ross (1910–1991).
“I must tell you what I saw”
Objects of witness and resistance
Adjacent to “Memory Unearthed” in the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art, is a special installation of objects and works of art that bear witness...
Daniela Rivera: The Andes Inverted
Daniela Rivera’s museum installations often focus on uncanny spatial and material dislocations. Breaking from the traditional mold of painting, she...
Past Is Present: Revival Jewelry
Whether copying or choosing motifs to reinterpret, jewelers have always looked to the past for inspiration. The practice became popular in the 19th...