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The reading room at the MFA's William Morris Hunt Memorial Library is open by appointment. Please fill out and submit this form to request an…
Over the course of some three thousand years, Ancient Egypt fostered a vibrant and dynamic portrait tradition that encompassed innovations, revivals…
Opening night of Boston Turkish Festival’s 18th annual Documentary and Short Film Competition.
A mini festival celebrating documentary films by and about members of the queer community.
I didn’t grow up going to art museums. My parents never took me, but that didn’t mean they didn’t bring art into my life. Art was all around me in my…
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…
Unique among his peers at the vanguard of postwar American art, Cy Twombly (1928–2011) sought inspiration from ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian…