Current MFA exhibitions and installations of contemporary art set the stage for lively conversations among viewers and. Explore the work of Martin Puryear, Kiki Smith, Andy Warhol, Ana Mendieta, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, and many others, as we consider how earlier statements or traditions play into our responses. How do everyday objects speak to issues of life and death, from 17th-century Dutch still lifes to Mona Hatoum’s Grater Divide? How do contemporary artists defy or manipulate the conventions of landscape and portraiture? Discuss connections they made and may discover others that were not part of their thinking but resonate for us.

Barbara Martin, Alfond Curator Emerita of Education