Past Exhibitions
Adam Fuss
At a moment in time when large format, digitally manipulated color photographs compete with paintings for our attention, Adam Fuss continues to make...
Annual Summer Masterwork Exchange with the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cuddly lions are generally not associated with Egypt, where these awesome beasts often serve as temple guardians or symbolize the power of kingship...
Building A Collection
Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art
The artworks in "Building a Collection" share two important qualities: each is a significant addition to the Museum’s distinguished collection, and...
Earth Transformed
Chinese Ceramics
"Earth Transformed: Chinese Ceramics in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston," was a special installation of 79 Chinese ceramics from the museum's renowned...
Fashion Photographs by William Wegman
In the late 90's, Photographer William Wegman began making large-format Polaroid portraits of his dogs dressed in contemporary designer fashions. This...
A Studio of Her Own
Women Artists in Boston 1870-1940
"A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston 1870-1940," presents over eighty of the finest paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts created by...
Art of the Natural World
Recent Gifts from the Rosenblum Family Collection
For more than a millennium, the integral relationship between nature and art has been a highly revered belief in Chinese culture, particularly among...
American Folk
A lively display of extraordinary objects created by ordinary people, “American Folk” is the first major exhibition of folk art at the Museum...
Art and the Camera
The Photographs of F. Holland Day
This exhibition presented the multifaceted aspects of the life and work of the fascinating Boston figure Fred Holland Day, a turn-of-the-century...
Boston 1900
The sophistication and elegance of fin-de-siècle Boston was expressed in this exhibition of drawings, prints, posters, and books by artists working in...