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Conservation in Action: Japanese Buddhist Sculptures, September 2023
The conservation studio set up in the Walter Ames Compton, MD Gallery (Gallery 280) closed to the pubic in December 2022, dismantled to make way for a…
A white marble bust of Boston hotelier Harvey D. Parker (of Parker House Hotel fame) presides over the Morse Study Room for Prints, Drawings, and…
Issue: Art for This Moment
Join us Friday, May 10, 2024 for our Spring Study: Seminars for Collectors, exclusively for the Denman Waldo Ross Society. This special program, led…
MFA receives a transformational gift spanning three centuries of Jewish decorative arts.
Campaign Update—Fall 2014 As we steadily move forward in the second year of the MFA’s The Future Is Now Campaign, there is exciting news to share…
Campaign Update—Winter 2015 Welcome to the latest update on the MFA’s The Future Is Now Campaign. We are thrilled to report that the Campaign has made…
Enjoy a selection of featured gifts of art representing transformative donations from visionary collectors.
NARRATOR: This mask is different from every other mask in this gallery… because it would have been worn and performed by a woman. Female masking performances are rare in Africa. The Sowei mask plays an important role in the all-female Sande Society. This society is a lifelong network of women among the Vai, Mende and neighboring peoples in present-day Sierra Leone.