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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
Guide to Searching the Collections
The MFA collections encompass about 500,000 works of art. This guide is to help you find what you’re looking for—whether a specific artwork or a…
Black Power in Print
Examining the Black Power movement’s legacy in visual culture and its resonance today
Thank you for your offer of a gift of art to the MFA! So that our team and curators can review your offer, please provide us with information about…
In 1903, at the height of the worldwide craze for postcards, the Eastman Kodak Company unveiled a new product: the postcard camera. The device exposed…
Institutional Critique Now: A Conversation between Dr. Kelli Morgan and Chenoa Baker
What dialogue comes forth when a document resurfaces in an archive? In 2021, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, rediscovered Dana C. Chandler’s “A…
A Manifesto, a Door: A Conversation between Dana Chandler, Dahna Chandler, and Liz Munsell
On January 15, 1970, Boston-based artist and activist Dana C. Chandler Jr. submitted a document he titled “A Proposal to Eradicate Institutional…
A Proposal to Eradicate Institutional Racism at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
In 1970, the artist and activist Dana Chandler wrote “A Proposal to Eradicate Institutional Racism at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts,” a manifesto…
A Black Power in Print Annotated Bibliography
In his “Proposal to Eradicate Institutional Racism at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts,” Dana Chandler writes, “One of the black museum’s greatest…
Introduction to “Afro-American Artists: New York and Boston” Exhibition Catalogue
In 1970, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and School of the Museum of Fine Arts mounted the exhibition “Afro‐American Artists: New York and Boston,”…