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Inclusion at the MFA
At the MFA, we take a 360-degree view of inclusion, from our visitors and audiences to our staff, leaders, and volunteers. To cultivate an inclusive…
Looking at Jan Davidsz. de Heem’s Interior of a Painter’s Studio , we find the artist hard at work in a spare but disheveled space, with clear…
Issue: Art for This Moment
After a year of anxious interactions, losing ourselves in reveries of art in a public space can feel like a gentle first step back to the social lives…
Issue: Art for This Moment
As a young child I used to wander around the seashore and tide pools with my sister, searching for starfish. Sometimes we even found one! What we…
Issue: Art for This Moment
As we find ourselves in a recent wave of anti-Asian hate sweeping the nation—mourning the victims of the March 2021 shootings in Atlanta, hearts…
Issue: Art for This Moment
Have I always loved small things? I’ve asked myself that question many times over the past few years as my obsession with all things miniature has…
Issue: Art for This Moment
“Stories and objects share something, a patina. . . . Perhaps a patina is a process of rubbing back so that the essential is revealed. . . . But it…
Issue: Art for This Moment
A musical instrument is the anticipation of something. Sinuous strings and thin soundboards, carefully carved air ducts and hollow tubes, membranes…
Issue: Art for This Moment
Starting a new job in a pandemic is not easy. When I began working at the MFA in February 2021, almost all of my interactions with colleagues took…
Issue: Art for This Moment
Family Legacy: Jane and Bob Mayer Create a Fund for Conservation
MFA Advisor and volunteer Jane Mayer, and her husband, Dr. Robert Mayer, combined their interests in art and medicine by creating an endowment fund to support of MFA Conservation.