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Journey back 4,500 years to the Giza plateau in ancient Egypt, where a group of artists and their patrons devised a new way of representing the human…
A young woman looks out at us from under semi-closed eyelids. Her forehead and cheeks are painted white; dramatic diagonal red lines intersect at the…
Issue: Art for This Moment
MFA Boston to Reopen February 3
BOSTON (January 26, 2021)—The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), will reopen on Wednesday, February 3, in alignment with the City of Boston’s return…
MFA Boston Receives Gift of 48 Henryk Ross Photographs Depicting Life Inside a World War II Jewish Ghetto
BOSTON (February 22, 2021)—The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has received a gift of 48 photographs by Henryk Ross (1910–1991), which offer an…
Last October my brother, sister, and niece came to Boston to visit me. Due to the pandemic, they spent most of their visit in my home, but I was very…
Issue: Art for This Moment
New Schedule for "Philip Guston Now" Announced
BOSTON (November 5, 2020)—The four organizing institutions of Philip Guston Now—the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), the National Gallery of Art…
A Complicated Past In 1912, when the MFA installed Cyrus Dallin’s Appeal to the Great Spirit at its Huntington Avenue Entrance, the sculpture was a…
What do you think of when you hear the name Monet? It likely conjures images of sun-filled meadows, colorful gardens, or ethereal water lilies…
Issue: Art for This Moment
MFA Acquires Original Drawing of Birth and Rebirth and Rebirth by Inaugural Banner Project Artist Robert Pruitt BOSTON (November 30, 2020)—The Museum…