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On February 4, 2020, the MFA turned 150 years old. We had just begun celebrating the auspicious anniversary when the COVID-19 pandemic forced this…
Issue: Art for This Moment
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
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,”…