Past Exhibitions
LIFE Magazine and the Power of Photography
Reconsidering the pictures we remember. Revealing the stories we don’t know.
Portraits of Leadership
Responses to the Obama Portraits
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
The acclaimed portraits of President Barack Obama and Mrs. Michelle Obama come to the MFA on the final stop of their national tour.
The Stillness of Things
Photographs from the Lane Collection
This exhibition presents nearly 60 innovative photographs—all departures from the traditional still life—drawn from the MFA’s Lane Collection. Grouped...
The Banner Project: Diedrick Brackens
Through dreamlike woven tapestries, Texas-born artist Diedrick Brackens (b. 1989) explores African American and queer identity, his own life, and...
Community Arts Initiative: Empowered Faces
“Empowered Faces” is a mixed-media mural that showcases young artists’ self-portraits through abstracted forms. Artist and educator Perla Mabel...
Touching Roots
Black Ancestral Legacies in the Americas
Africa is at once a point of origin and a myriad of associations—real and imagined—for many Black artists working in the Americas. In the 20th century...
Philip Guston Now
Experience a retrospective of Philip Guston’s work, from Depression-era muralist and painter to contemporary master and voice for social justice.
Turner’s Modern World
See more than 100 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and sketchbooks by J. M. W. Turner, including the MFA’s own Turner painting Slave Ship.
Weng Family Collection of Chinese Painting: Art Rocks
Celebrating a landmark gift of Chinese art 翁氏家藏精品展·第三期：奇石拙趣 In China, rocks in their natural form are objects of great aesthetic appreciation. As far...