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After a year of anxious interactions, losing ourselves in reveries of art in a public space can feel like a gentle first step back to the social lives…
Issue: Art for This Moment
See more than 100 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and sketchbooks by J. M. W. Turner, including the MFA’s own Turner painting Slave Ship.
As a young child I used to wander around the seashore and tide pools with my sister, searching for starfish. Sometimes we even found one! What we…
Issue: Art for This Moment
Black Power in Print
Examining the Black Power movement’s legacy in visual culture and its resonance today
In 1903, at the height of the worldwide craze for postcards, the Eastman Kodak Company unveiled a new product: the postcard camera. The device exposed…
Institutional Critique Now: A Conversation between Dr. Kelli Morgan and Chenoa Baker
What dialogue comes forth when a document resurfaces in an archive? In 2021, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, rediscovered Dana C. Chandler’s “A…
A Manifesto, a Door: A Conversation between Dana Chandler, Dahna Chandler, and Liz Munsell
On January 15, 1970, Boston-based artist and activist Dana C. Chandler Jr. submitted a document he titled “A Proposal to Eradicate Institutional…
A Proposal to Eradicate Institutional Racism at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
In 1970, the artist and activist Dana Chandler wrote “A Proposal to Eradicate Institutional Racism at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts,” a manifesto…
A Black Power in Print Annotated Bibliography
In his “Proposal to Eradicate Institutional Racism at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts,” Dana Chandler writes, “One of the black museum’s greatest…
Introduction to “Afro-American Artists: New York and Boston” Exhibition Catalogue
In 1970, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and School of the Museum of Fine Arts mounted the exhibition “Afro‐American Artists: New York and Boston,”…