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The City Talks
Join leading Boston-area thinkers, institutions, entrepreneurs, activists, and artists on site in the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art (Gallery…
The Elaine and Jerome Rosenfeld Concerts in the Courtyard are back! Tucked inside the MFA’s Calderwood Courtyard, this series is a summer music…
The Roxbury International Film Festival (ROXFILM) is the largest festival in New England celebrating people of color around the world. The festival…
We are thrilled to announce the return of Sunset Cinema! Celebrate the return of summer with an outdoor screening of the beloved 1997 romance Love…
Celebrate the opening of “Intentional Beauty: Jewish Ritual Art from the Collection,” Boston’s first gallery dedicated to Judaica, with this four…
Rediscover the different artist groups active in Boston during the 1970s and ’80s that have largely been written out of the art historical narrative…
Conservation of an Egyptian minbar door, Mamluk period, 1382–98: December 2013
Conservation of an Egyptian minbar door, Mamluk period, 1382–98: February 2014
ELLIOT BOSTWICK DAVIS: This picture was one that we really designed much of level 1 around, it was so important to us. It had really not been on view consistently, and it had never been on view with its original frame before, because we really didn’t have the space. It’s virtually a life size portrait. But it’s something new. Sully here was quite innovative and showed a great deal of inspiration in creating what he called an ‘historical portrait.’