![Artist Toshiko Takaezu sits among her works of pottery and looks out the window.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-06/SC459050_16x9.jpg?itok=zaTT1qXH)
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![Artist Toshiko Takaezu sits among her works of pottery and looks out the window.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-06/SC459050_16x9.jpg?itok=zaTT1qXH)
Born in Hawaii to parents of Okinawan ancestry, Toshiko Takaezu (1922–2011) was a technically masterful and innovative artist best known for her…
![Black contour line drawings of abstract shapes resembling fruit, branches, and leaves against a white background.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-06/SC315332_SC315331_SC315351_16x9.jpg?itok=UHuukYle)
“Since birth we get accustomed to seeing and thinking at the same time. But I think that if you can turn off the mind and look at things only with…
![Four screen prints of traditional Indigenous outfits—one blue, one yellow, one green, and one red—all with metallic foil and cross decorations.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-10/SCs426440-3_16x9%20%281%29.jpg?itok=tG8d1DNk)
Resilience often manifests in work by Indigenous North American artists, for example in its content or simply by increasing visibility to combat…
![A black-and-white photograph of a man in a white lab coat with a blurred face standing beside an easel on a rooftop.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-10/SC334794_16x9.jpg?itok=yyZZliEA)
A photographer’s studio is a laboratory of creativity—a physical and psychological space for meditation, collaboration, and experimentation. “Creative…
![An impressionist painting of an empty beach with five piers below a purple sky.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-10/SC462537_16x9.jpg?itok=BB3sdNZ5)
In the years around 1900, before Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) created some of the most recognizable abstract canvases of the last century, he turned his…
![A still from a video about iridescent Jell-O.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-09/SC462775_16x9_V1.jpg?itok=X-lUo8fm)
Jell-O’s presence in contemporary art is an extension of its visual and cultural history. Since its invention in 1897 the cheap yet luxurious pantry…
In partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts, Bank of America is proud to sponsor Fashioned by Sargent , which offers a unique look at the use of…
![Conservator consolidating gilding on a sculpture of a lion](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2020-03/CCMFurnFr1.jpg?itok=B2kZt_Ln)
The Furniture and Frame Conservation Laboratory, founded in 1971 and significantly expanded in 2001, is responsible for the care and preservation of furniture, frames, musical instruments and period rooms in the Museum’s collections.
![Conservator toning the surface of a copper alloy figure](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2020-03/CCMObjects1.jpg?itok=Bn5Q1k1Z)
Objects Conservation Laboratory
The Objects Conservation Laboratory cares for three-dimensional artworks from across the Museum’s curatorial areas, nearly one-third of the MFA collections.