Past Exhibitions
Arts of Japan
The John C. Weber Collection
One of the finest private holdings of Japanese art outside Japan, Dr. John C. Weber's collection has been formed over the last decade, a period during...
Winslow Homer at the MFA
This select installation in the Lower Rotunda features iconic paintings by Winslow Homer from the permanent collection, including Boys in a Pasture...
Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis
The Art of Conceptual Craft. Selections from the Wornick Collection
Encompassing works of art in a variety of media, this exhibition features nearly 120 highlights from the distinguished collection of Ronald C. and...
Drama and Desire
Japanese Paintings from the Floating World 1690–1850
With the establishment of Edo (modern-day Tokyo) as the major political and commercial center of Japan in the seventeenth century, artists developed a...
Resounding Ragas
Paintings and Musical Memory in India
Indian paintings depicting music visually evoke aspects of specific modes called ragas. The word raga is derived from the Sanskrit root ranj, which...
Contemporary Outlook: German Photography
In the 1920s and early ‘30s German photography was dominated by two distinct approaches to making images. The first, associated with the work and...
Contemporary Selections
Recent gifts and purchases have substantially added to the Museum’s collection of late twentieth-century art. This rotation features a variety of...
Contemporary Outlook: Japan
Since Japan dropped its longstanding policy of national isolation in the 1850s, there has been an immensely creative give-and-take between the...
Jewelry by Artists
The Daphne Farago Collection
Beginning in the mid-twentieth century, studio jewelry artists—working independently of the commercial jewelry industry—made innovative jewelry that...
Ed Rossbach Fiber Art from the Daphne Farago Collection
The MFA celebrates the recent gift of more than forty works by Ed Rossbach in "Ed Rossbach Fiber Art from the Daphne Farago Collection." One of the...