![Circular relief sculpture of Medusa with a fearful expression on a black background](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2022-05/SC269320_4x3_Extended-Background.jpg?itok=8Lq8v7Tx)
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![Circular relief sculpture of Medusa with a fearful expression on a black background](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2022-05/SC269320_4x3_Extended-Background.jpg?itok=8Lq8v7Tx)
The #MeToo movement has brought cultures of sexual abuse and exploitation into the limelight. Historically, victims of abuse have been encouraged, if…
![A stylized raven head holding a round piece of sand-blasted glass in its beak.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2022-05/SC75352_4x3_Extended-Background.jpg?itok=c2kfylgM)
Here is how I explain the layout of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to visitors in a hurry: “It’s separated by area of the world.” Except, it is not…
Issue: Art for This Moment, Issue: MFA Ambassadors Respond to the Collection
![A landscape of a tropical forest with a snowcapped mountain in the hazy distance.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2022-05/4x3_Crop_SC196731.jpg?itok=gX0jO20T)
Whenever I look at all the amazing landscapes on the second floor of MFA’s Art of the Americas Wing, I’m always drawn to one painting in particular…
![A pitcher sculpted in the form of a head, with the opening coming out of the top of a hat. The face is a crude caricature of a black man, and the entire sculpture is painted jet black.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2022-05/SC360562_Extended-Background.jpg?itok=Ch-0hb8O)
I first came across the pitcher by accident. I was new at the MFA, and my coworker was showing me funky objects most people don’t come to see in the…
![An interior with ornate wallpaper showing trees and Roman architecture. The room is filled with tables, on top of which sit decorative ceramics, and a fireplace has birch logs in it.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2022-05/4x3_Crop_SC244583_V1.jpg?itok=cm0OaGRR)
As you walk through the galleries on the first floor of the Art of Americas Wing, you may find yourself in rooms full of furniture and paintings. If…
![An elderly man walks into a room where a young girl is lying on a couch.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2022-05/4x3_Crop_SC345688.jpg?itok=7BPgsIq3)
In the MFA’s “Impressionism and Beyond” gallery, portraits of a husband and wife hang alongside one another. Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) painted…
![Cover of America Goes Modern, featuring silver art deco–style lamp](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-08/America%20Goes%20Modern_cover_web.jpg?itok=hyTizI6f)
During the 1920s and 1930s, the speed of modern life in the United States, accelerated by the invention of cars, airplanes, electric lighting…
![Gouache on artist's board depicting silhouettes of the Sphinx, pyramids, a church, jungle foliage, a trumpeter, chained figures, and one figure in broken chains.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2022-08/SC439429_4x3.jpg?itok=v07mbRRG)
“I be off the slave ship building pyramids and writing my own hieroglyphs.” —Kendrick Lamar, “HiiiPoWeR” While working as an advisor on the exhibition…
Issue: Art for This Moment
![Small figures dressed in Pilgrim clothing and holding various items--weapons, food, containers--stand on a shore and watch as ships full of people sail off into the distance.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2022-09/SC429357b_4x3.jpg?itok=-iwJESsd)
The Departure of the Pilgrim Fathers from Delfshaven on Their Way to America
When I was in second grade, my class spent the fall preparing for a play: a kid-friendly, historically inaccurate depiction of Christopher Columbus…
Issue: Art for This Moment
![A 17th-century man and woman in formal dress sit in front of a fireplace in an ornate room.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2022-02/SC230167_4x3.jpg?itok=BXAf7zVZ)
“Stories and objects share something, a patina. . . . Perhaps a patina is a process of rubbing back so that the essential is revealed. . . . But it…
Issue: Art for This Moment