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Jell-O’s presence in contemporary art is an extension of its visual and cultural history. Since its invention in 1897 the cheap yet luxurious pantry…
Dearest Sofonisba, I don’t know you. We’ll never meet. I live almost 500 years after you, in a world you wouldn’t recognize. I’m in my 20s; you lived…
Issue: Art for This Moment
The phrase “thinking small” describes an act of deep engagement with art—a specific kind of encounter in which a viewer considers, perceives, and acts…
It’s Christmas morning, and I’m sitting with my cousins around an overwhelmingly full dining table, though this packed corner of my grandmother’s…
Issue: Art for This Moment
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Share your knowledge about transportation design Twentieth-century transportation design is a new area of collecting and research for the MFA, and for…
Preserving History, Making History
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
June 20, 2008–June 30, 2012
As part of celebrating the renovation and re-opening of the State Street Corporation Fenway Entrance, this exhibition tells the story of the Museum's…
Tattooing became an important feature of Japanese urban popular culture in the early 19th century, influenced strongly by the success of a series of…
The Shahnama , often called the "national epic" of Iran, was completed around the year 1010 by the Persian poet Abu'l Qasim Firdawsi. A vast and…
Luxuries from Japan
Cultural Exchange in the 17th and 18th Centuries
September 30, 2009–January 17, 2011
More than 400 years ago, Japan forged strong trading partnerships with China and the West, and Japan’s lacquer and porcelains were among the most…
Richard Avedon was one of the greatest image-makers of the twentieth century. He revolutionized fashion photography with his imaginative, spirited…