Museum of Fine Arts
Lord Norman Foster has designed the expansion for the Museum of Fine Arts.
- Contact Person:
- Address:
- 465 Huntington Avenue
- Boston MA, 02115-5523
- Phone:
- 617 267 9300
- Website:
- http://www.mfa.org
456 BFA References to Museum of Fine Arts
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Andrew Stevovich at Clark Gallery Front Page
Whimsical Figuration
By: - Apr 30th, 2024Whimsical figurative artist Andrew Stevovich is exhibiting at Clark Gallery in Lincoln, Mass.
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Korean Films at the MFA Front Page
Complements Hallyu! The Korean Wave
By: - Apr 19th, 2024In conjunction with the exhibition Hallyu! The Korean Wave, which explores the worldwide impact of South Korean pop culture, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), presents films by some of the country's greatest auteurs.
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Japanese Art at the Museum of Fine Arts Front Page
Galleries of World Class Art Renovated
By: - Apr 18th, 2024The collection of Japanese art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), is one of the most comprehensive in the world. Five newly transformed galleries showcasing nearly 200 highlights—including painting, sculpture, decorative arts and selections from the Museum’s vast collection of ukiyo-e prints—open on May 11, 2024.Japanese
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Cape Ann Museum 2024 Front Page
Is there Life After Hopper
By: - Mar 30th, 2024With minimal marketing and fanfare the Cape Ann Museum launches its 2024 season with the special exhibition In the Round: 20th Century Cape Ann Sculpture which opens April 6 from 3 to 5 pm. It focuses on major sculptors who lived and worked on Cape Ann. In July there will be a survey of women artists. The museum has pulled back to business as usual following last summer's blockbuster Edward Hopper and Jo Nivison exhibition in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Mira Cantor Dig Front Page
Kingston Gallery
By: - Mar 03rd, 2024In my new paintings I am imagining “evolutants” stuck in the mud, from remains of the flora and fauna of the smallest cell-like creatures to the evolution of our present human form, painted as staggered layers of history. They are colorful, animated patterns of biological and imaginary forms painted in acrylic and oil.
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Two at Boston Sculptors Front Page
Ed Andrews and Leslie Wilcox
By: - Feb 27th, 2024First Friday, March 1, 5 - 8:30pm, will feature the reception & artist talks at Boston Sculptors in the South End. Works by Ed Andrews and Leslie Wilcox will be on view through March 31. There will be artist talks on Saturday March 16 from 2-5 PM.
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Hello Dali at the MFA Front Page
Spanish Surrealist Opens in July
By: - Jan 11th, 2024Pandering to the public continues at the ever more accessible Museum of Fine Arts. It follows a blockbuster show of Sargent portraits of white supremacists with an in depth view of the ultimate charlatan Salvador Dali. He has been described as the greatest modernist from the wrist down. Dalí: Disruption and Devotion, opens in July with 30 works by Dali compared to European masterpieces from the museum's collection. The Dalis are on loan from the St Petersburg, Florida museum. The project is both cost effective and crowd pleasing.
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In Our Hands: Native Photography, 1890 to Now Front Page
Minneapolis Museum of Art
By: - Dec 04th, 2023Presenting over 150 photographs of, by, and for Indigenous people, “In Our Hands” welcomes all to see through the lens held by Native photographers.
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Mondrian at the MFA Front Page
Major Bequest from Maria and Conrad Janis
By: - Oct 24th, 2023A majority of the works in Mondrian: Foundations are drawn from a gift to the MFA from Maria and Conrad Janis by and through the Janis Living Trust. In addition to 34 paintings, drawings and watercolors by Mondrian—24 of which are on view in the exhibition
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Gerard Malanga at Catskills' Beattie-Powers Place Front Page
Moments in Time: Pictures 1965-2023
By: - Oct 11th, 2023In collaboration with curator/designer Martina Salisbury, The Friends of Beattie-Powers Place presents Moments in Time :: Pictures 1965-2023. The intimate salon installation offers a rare opportunity to view a selection of over 60 of Gerard Malanga’s photographs, including portraits of some of the most illustrious artists, musicians, literary figures, and cultural icons of the last six decades. ?
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Ellen Shattuck Pierce Taking Place Front Page
Boston's Hall Space
By: - Sep 15th, 2023Hall Space presents Ellen Shattuck PIerce "Taking Place." It's a lively exhibition of relief and hand colored laser prints.
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Williamstown artist Jane Hudson Front Page
Major Arcana Paintings and 22-card Tarot Deck
By: - Aug 24th, 2023These paintings, inspired by the Major Arcana cards in the traditional Rider-Waite tarot deck, are also the inspiration for a Major Arcana-specific 22-card tarot deck released by Jane Hudson this summer with WIld Soul River.
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Jacob's Pillow On Site Residencies Front Page
Year Round Programming
By: - Aug 22nd, 2023Jacob’s Pillow today announced the artists who will participate in 10 onsite residencies this fall through next summer, as part of the Pillow Lab residency program. Artists participating in this series, in chronological order, are: Ilya Vidrin, Sekou McMiller, LaJuné McMillian, Minty Fresh Circus, Aakash Odedra, Kyle Marshall Choreography, CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theater, Hari Krishnan/inDANCE, Theresa Ruth Howard, and Miguel Gutierrez.
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Strong Women in Renaissance Italy Front Page
Fall Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts
By: - Aug 14th, 2023Strong Women in Renaissance Italy features approximately 100 works of art—sculpture, paintings, ceramics, textiles, illustrated books and prints—largely drawn from the MFA’s collection, alongside eight key loans from the British Library, the Dayton Art Institute, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the Jewish Museum, the Boston Athenaeum and a private collection. Women became artists, writers, poets, musicians and singers. They acted as patrons and commissioned works of art.
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Annisquam Seafair Front Page
Books Games and Cotton Candy
By: - Jul 31st, 2023Noted for its Wax Works the Annisquam Seafair is now 178-years-old. We attended this past weekend.
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Gabrielle Barzaghi at Gloucester's Matthew Swift Gallery Front Page
Horse Opera Presents Large Pastel Drawings
By: - Jun 17th, 2023Gabrielle Barzaghi is one of the leading contemporary artists residing on Cape Ann. Horse Opera is Barzaghi's fourth solo exhibition at the Matthew Swift Gallery, and presents a significant new body of her work comprising more than a dozen drawings.
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Edvard Munch Trembling Earth Front Page
Clark Art Institute Exclusive American Venue
By: - Jun 15th, 2023Trembling Earth features seventy-five objects, ranging from brilliantly hued landscapes and three stunning self-portraits, to an extensive selection of his innovative prints and drawings. The exhibition includes more than thirty works from MUNCH’s world-renowned collection, major pieces from other museums in the USA and Europe, and nearly forty paintings, prints, and drawings from private collections, many of which are rarely exhibited. The Clark is the only American venue for this stunning exhibition.
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Rare Loan from Acropolis of Athens Front Page
Kore on View at Museum of Fine Arts
By: - Jun 05th, 2023About 2,500 years ago, the Acropolis of Athens was filled with statues of young women, called korai. Raised on high bases, these dedicated offerings created a forest of shimmering marble women honoring the goddess Athena. One of the finest examples of these objects, known as Kore 670, which rarely leaves the Acropolis Museum, has traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), where it is on view through January 8, 2024.
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New Publication from MFA Front Page
America Goes Modern: The Rise of the Industrial Designer by Nonie Gadsden with Kate Lanford Joy
By: - May 19th, 2023In a thoughtful introduction, Gadsden makes her case for Modernism, and then hones in on five wonderfully talented but quite different trailblazing industrial designers: Paul T. Frankl (1886-1958), Donald Deskey (1894-1989), Viktor Schreckengost (1906-2008), Harley J. Earl (1893-1969), and Belle Kogan (1902-2000).
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Blockbuster Planned for Cape Ann Museum Front Page
Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape
By: - May 16th, 2023Edward Hopper (1882-1967) visited Cape Ann initially at the invitation of his friend and fellow painter, Leon Kroll (1884-1974), and produced his first oil painting outdoors in the United States during that trip. The Whitney Museum is lending Hopper’s five oils painted in Gloucester in 1912, including Briar (sic) Neck, Gloucester (1912); Tall Masts (1912); Italian Quarter (1912); and Gloucester Harbor (1912). The exhibition will mark the first time these works have ever been shown together on Cape Ann.
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William Flynn: 50 Years 50 Drawings Front Page
Boston's HallSpace
By: - May 11th, 2023Flynn has made hundreds, perhaps thousands of drawings over the last 50 years. Choosing just 50 (really 61) drawings is nearly an impossible task. William Flynn is an artist that spends days drawing. He finds ways to express the beauty in mundane objects; an old baseball mitt, ski boots, a bicycle that was run over and flattened, cars at junkyards, an old arm chair, pop-up books, whirly-gigs.
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map Front Page
First Retrospective by Native Artist at Whitney Museum
By: - Apr 29th, 2023Now 82, at long last the Native American artist, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, is the subject of a retrospective at a major New York Museum. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map will be on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art from April 19 to August 13, 202
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Edward and Jo Hopper at Cape Ann Museum Front Page
Part of Glucester 400th Plus
By: - Apr 10th, 2023In 1923 Edward Hopper spent his second summer in Gloucester. He met and later married the artist Josephine Nivison. That summer he painted several pictures and created a number of water colors. They worked side by side. A century later, on the occasion of Gloucester 400 Plus their work will be on view at the Cape Ann Museum.
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ICA Foster Prize Winners Front Page
Cicely Carew, Venetia Dale, and Yu-Wen Wu
By: - Mar 29th, 2023Cicely Carew, Venetia Dale, and Yu-Wen Wu have been named the recipients of the 2023 James and Audrey Foster Prize Exhibition. Their exhibition at the ICA, on view August 24–January 2, will encompass a wide range of media—from sculpture and installation to time-based media and works on paper.
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The Literary Life Front Page
Winter Is for Writing Books
By: - Feb 28th, 2023In 2015 I wrote a book of poetry, Shards of a Life, which was launched with a reading and dialogue with director, Susan Wissler, at Edith Wharton's The Mount. It was an auspicious beginning. Each winter other books of poetry and oral history followed. There was a disruption in 2021 entailing recovery from spinal surgery. The eighth book, Annisquam: Pip and Me Coming of Age, is on track for a Spring/ Summer release.
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