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History is slippery. We like to think of the past as being made up of a knowable series of events that time and study have neatly sorted and sifted by…
Issue: Art for This Moment
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…
10th-annual event offers free admission all day for Massachusetts residents. BOSTON (May 25, 2022)—On Monday, June 20, 2022, the Museum of Fine Arts…
Through dreamlike woven tapestries, Texas-born artist Diedrick Brackens (b. 1989) explores African American and queer identity, his own life, and…
During the 1920s and 1930s, the speed of modern life in the United States, accelerated by the invention of cars, airplanes, electric lighting…
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…