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MFA to Provide Free Tickets to Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation and Showcase Art Challenge Submissions Inspired by the…
MFA Boston Appoints Marina Tyquiengco as Inaugural Ellyn McColgan Assistant Curator of Native American Art
BOSTON (August 19, 2021)—The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has appointed Marina Tyquiengco (CHamoru) as the inaugural Ellyn McColgan Assistant…
Approaching a marble figure in the cool, quiet halls of the MFA’s ancient Greek and Roman galleries is an uncanny, potentially dizzying experience…
Issue: Art for This Moment
BOSTON (September 7, 2021)—The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), is offering free general admission on Saturday, October 9 in honor of Indigenous…
Dig into “Garden for Boston”
Read more about “Garden for Boston” and the two installations that comprise it— Radiant Community and Raven Reshapes Boston: A Native Corn Garden at…
Conservation in Action: Japanese Buddhist Sculptures, August 2021
The conservation studio in the Walter Ames Compton, MD Gallery (Gallery 280) reopened to the public in early February, welcoming visitors once again…
In late 2020, conservators began examination and research of three paintings from Tibet. Each depicts a form of Tara, a female buddha from the…
Introduction to the Tibetan Tara Paintings Conservation Project
Within Tibetan Buddhism, Tara is a buddha and a divine mother. She takes many different forms to come to the aid of beings in need, and she can be…
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
Each room in this new suite of galleries presents a single chapter in the larger history of 20th-century art from the Americas. Together they span…