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The acclaimed portraits of President Barack Obama and Mrs. Michelle Obama come to the MFA on the final stop of their national tour.
Throughout his long career, American artist Dawoud Bey (b. 1953) has reimagined history by bringing untold stories to the forefront of his work. Best…
Dutch Specialties
Rogier van der Weyden’s Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin (about 1435–40) is arguably the greatest early Netherlandish painting in North America. Placed…
Creativity in Exile
Measuring ten by fifteen feet, Gerrit van Honthorst’s immense Triumph of the Winter Queen: Allegory of the Just (1636) is the focal point of…
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…
I chose to write about Translated Vase (2011), a contemporary sculpture by Yee Sookyung. The object is made of ceramic fragments of contemporary vases…
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…
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…