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![impressionistic painting depicting sunset-lit ocean with tall sailing ship in the distance, and bodies and cargo floating in waves in foreground](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2022-01/SC332587_4x3.jpg?itok=RxHdRZ0F)
On View in Boston, the Final Exhibition Venue, from March 27–July 10, 2022 BOSTON (February 8, 2022)—Opening at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)…
![Tea caddy, large bowl, and small bowl made of glazed earthenware and decorated with whimsical illustrations of a house surrounded by trees, geese, rabbits, and turtles.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2022-01/SC163023_4x3.jpg?itok=EMXUoAgg)
I get an immediate sense of comfort from the ceramic decorations of Sara Galner. As a member of the Saturday Evening Girls, an early 20th-century…
Issue: Art for This Moment
MFA Boston Announces Return of Salomon van Ruysdael Painting to the Heirs of Ferenc Chorin
BOSTON (January 24, 2022)—The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has reached an agreement to return View of Beverwijk (1646) by Salomon van Ruysdael…
On view September 3–October 3, 2022 Presented in conjunction with The Obama Portraits Tour BOSTON (August 31, 2022)—This fall, the Museum of Fine Arts…
![Irregularly shaped sculpture made of fragments of celadon joined together with epoxy and gold](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2022-05/SC254451b_4x3_Extended-Background.jpg?itok=_QNqZT6b)
I chose to write about Translated Vase (2011), a contemporary sculpture by Yee Sookyung. The object is made of ceramic fragments of contemporary vases…
![Intricately carved wood sculpture of a bodhisattva seated cross-legged base](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2022-05/SC168742_4x3_Extended-Background.jpg?itok=svzOCGOj)
I immediately rushed over to the new galleries for art of ancient Greece, Rome, and the Byzantine Empire when I found out they were finally open. I…
![Highly detailed painting in oils of many different types of flowers in a vase](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2022-05/4x3_Crop_SC399333b_V2.jpg?itok=_XrpHI35)
I moved to Boston in the summer of 2021. Perhaps moving 3,000 miles away to start graduate school in the midst of a global pandemic was not ideal, but…
![Oil painting of a tall, snowy mountain peak in the background with a forested peak in the foreground under a blue sky](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2022-05/4x3_Crop_SC173749.jpg?itok=J7dvnI64)
Growing up, I was lucky enough to hike all over the country with family and friends, and to absorb their enthusiasm for the outdoors. I cherished…
![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