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Over many generations, the women of Gee’s Bend , Alabama, a rural, majority Black community, have made quilts with remarkable innovation and…
Issue: Art for This Moment
Statues and monuments across the world are being toppled, and in the process, so too are the myths that upheld them. A few years ago, when I was an…
Issue: Art for This Moment
Curators Circles: Black Arts and Artists
Engage with visual art by artists of the African diaspora and become familiar with emerging and established artists of African descent. Programs offer…
Of all the various media in the MFA’s collection, the graphic arts—prints and drawings—are among the most nimble. A draftsperson can pick up a pencil…
Issue: Art for This Moment
Treatment of Sam Katz’s Lion Rampant
Lion Rampant , a gilded and carved wooden lion, entered the MFA’s American folk art collection in 1960. One of a pair of lions, it had once reared…
Throughout history, events uncontrollable and unforeseen have intervened to derail our best-laid plans. One of my favorite objects in the MFA’s…
Issue: Art for This Moment
July 26 marked the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the heart of which is made up of two goals: equality and an end to…
Issue: Art for This Moment
About 4,500 years ago in the western cemetery in Giza, Egypt, a great commotion stirred in the shadow of the newly built pyramids. Workmen were…
Issue: Art for This Moment
Charlotte Zawel has been a member of the Museum Council since 2012 and a member of the Steering Committee for five years. She co-chaired the Summer…
Spotlight: “Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation”—Exploring an Exhibition with Liz Munsell
Liz Munsell, Lorraine and Alan Bressler Curator of Contemporary Art and co-curator of “Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hop-Hop Generation,”…