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BOSTON (April 13, 2022)—This fall, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), will debut Frank Bowling’s Americas , the first major survey of the artist’s…
BOSTON (August 4, 2022)—On August 6, 1965, exactly 20 years after the destruction of Hiroshima, Kawada Kikuji (born 1933) published his landmark…
BOSTON (July 26, 2022)—The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has announced the appointment of Dr. Ai Fukunaga as the Ishibashi Foundation Assistant…
Position Funded by $2.5 Million Grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. BOSTON (July 26, 2022)—The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has announced the…
Frank Bowling’s Americas
New York, 1966–75
When the British Guiana–born artist Frank Bowling relocated from London to New York in 1966, he found an art scene in flux, with abstract painting…
MFA Boston Presents Landmark Exhibition Highlighting Black Potters from the 19th-Century American South
On view March 4–July 9, 2023 BOSTON (February 16, 2023)—Opening at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), on March 4, Hear Me Now: The Black Potters…
Simply defined, a miniature is an object smaller than its parent object—compare a chair made for a dolls’ house at two inches tall with a normal-sized…
Who creates your image? In portraits by John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), sitters assume elegant stances, the fabric of their dress richly depicted in…
Tintypes—or ferrotypes—were first introduced in the US in the 1850s. Made by printing photographic images onto sheets of thin metal, they were…
On the northern tip of Cape Cod, Provincetown has long been regarded as a refuge for artists and a vibrant hub of experimentation and innovation. In…