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The reading room at the MFA's William Morris Hunt Memorial Library is open by appointment. Please fill out and submit this form to request an…
Over the course of some three thousand years, Ancient Egypt fostered a vibrant and dynamic portrait tradition that encompassed innovations, revivals…
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…
Unique among his peers at the vanguard of postwar American art, Cy Twombly (1928–2011) sought inspiration from ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian…
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Acquires Caves Collection of Modern and Contemporary Prints
BOSTON (July 21, 2022)—The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has acquired the entire collection of more than 2,000 modern and contemporary prints…
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…