Explore the tools and materials that artists use, right in the galleries

Explore the tools and materials that artists use, right in the galleries

Enjoy Art in Tune in the MFA’s galleries once again, with reduced admission for this evening of free live musical performances highlighting the Museum…

MFA receives a transformational gift spanning three centuries of Jewish decorative arts.

Back for another year, the MFA Artisan Market is the best-kept secret in Boston holiday shopping. Find one-of-a-kind items from more than a dozen…

NARRATOR: This mask is different from every other mask in this gallery… because it would have been worn and performed by a woman. Female masking performances are rare in Africa. The Sowei mask plays an important role in the all-female Sande Society. This society is a lifelong network of women among the Vai, Mende and neighboring peoples in present-day Sierra Leone.

CHRISTRAUD GEARY: Now if you look at the Portuguese soldier, there are certain details that I don’t want you to miss. One is that everything is articulated in the greatest detail. Look at his hands, they’re beautifully done, and look at the fact that you can see his fingernails, even. Look at his feet, same thing, they’re beautifully executed.

MFA receives one of the largest gifts in its history

Treatment of The Triumph of the Winter Queen: Allegory of the Just, dated 1636, by Gerrit van Honthorst (Dutch, 1590–1656): April 2012 With cleaning…