Past Exhibitions
Holland on Paper
The Age of Art Nouveau
Innovative works of Dutch graphic design from the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Audubon's Birds, Audubon's Words
Life-sized prints from The Birds of America paired with Audubon’s words
Sacred Pages
Conversations about the Qur’an
Exhibition of pages from medieval to modern Qur’ans with comments from Boston’s Islamic communities
An Enduring Vision
Photographs from the Lane Collection
A lively mix of early and late from the world-class photography collection of William and Saundra Lane
Elegant Contortions
Renaissance Prints
Engravings, etchings, and woodcuts in the Mannerist style of outrageous extremes
Homer, Leighton, Manet
Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York’s Metropolitan Museum honors Boston with loan of paintings
To Boston With Love 2013
Flags in Shapiro Family Courtyard honor and support Boston.
Ridley Howard
Fields and Stripes
SMFA alumnus explores 21st-century painting in color, portraits, and abstraction
Michelangelo
Sacred and Profane, Master Drawings from the Casa Buonarroti
“Michelangelo: Sacred and Profane, Master Drawings from the Casa Buonarroti” features a rich and varied selection of 26 works from the master’s...