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MFA Journey: Explore 150 Years in 15 Works of Art
During the 150th anniversary celebration days, the Museum unveiled MFA Journey: Explore 150 Years in 15 Works of Art, a self-guided tour exploring the history of the Museum and its world-renowned collection through the lens of 15 works of art.
In honor of the MFA’s 150th anniversary, the Museum planned to display its complete collection of 35 paintings by Claude Monet in April 2020 in the exhibition “Monet and Boston: Lasting Impression.”
On February 4, 2020, the MFA turned 150 years old. We had just begun celebrating the auspicious anniversary when the COVID-19 pandemic forced this…
Issue: Art for This Moment
Over many generations, the women of Gee’s Bend , Alabama, a rural, majority Black community, have made quilts with remarkable innovation and…
Issue: Art for This Moment
Statues and monuments across the world are being toppled, and in the process, so too are the myths that upheld them. A few years ago, when I was an…
Issue: Art for This Moment
Of all the various media in the MFA’s collection, the graphic arts—prints and drawings—are among the most nimble. A draftsperson can pick up a pencil…
Issue: Art for This Moment
Treatment of Sam Katz’s Lion Rampant
Lion Rampant , a gilded and carved wooden lion, entered the MFA’s American folk art collection in 1960. One of a pair of lions, it had once reared…
Throughout history, events uncontrollable and unforeseen have intervened to derail our best-laid plans. One of my favorite objects in the MFA’s…
Issue: Art for This Moment
July 26 marked the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the heart of which is made up of two goals: equality and an end to…
Issue: Art for This Moment
About 4,500 years ago in the western cemetery in Giza, Egypt, a great commotion stirred in the shadow of the newly built pyramids. Workmen were…
Issue: Art for This Moment