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In the MFA’s “Impressionism and Beyond” gallery, portraits of a husband and wife hang alongside one another. Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) painted…
Through dreamlike woven tapestries, Texas-born artist Diedrick Brackens (b. 1989) explores African American and queer identity, his own life, and…
The Stillness of Things
Photographs from the Lane Collection
August 27, 2022–February 27, 2023
This exhibition presents nearly 60 innovative photographs—all departures from the traditional still life—drawn from the MFA’s Lane Collection. Grouped…
“I be off the slave ship building pyramids and writing my own hieroglyphs.” —Kendrick Lamar, “HiiiPoWeR” While working as an advisor on the exhibition…
Issue: Art for This Moment
The Departure of the Pilgrim Fathers from Delfshaven on Their Way to America
When I was in second grade, my class spent the fall preparing for a play: a kid-friendly, historically inaccurate depiction of Christopher Columbus…
Issue: Art for This Moment
“Stories and objects share something, a patina. . . . Perhaps a patina is a process of rubbing back so that the essential is revealed. . . . But it…
Issue: Art for This Moment
Celebrating a landmark gift of Chinese art 翁氏家藏精品展·第三期:奇石拙趣 In China, rocks in their natural form are objects of great aesthetic appreciation. As far…
A musical instrument is the anticipation of something. Sinuous strings and thin soundboards, carefully carved air ducts and hollow tubes, membranes…
Issue: Art for This Moment
By Deb Glasser, Patron Program Committee member When the late Wan-go H. C. Weng donated his superb collection of Chinese paintings and calligraphy to…
A Cross-Country Journey in Search of Craft: An Interview with Michelle Millar Fisher
By Patti Bifulco, Patron Program Committee member During 2022 Michelle Millar Fisher, Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary…