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Gold and the Gods Jewels of Ancient Nubia - Boston, Massachusetts
This dazzling exhibition focuses on the Museum’s world-class collection of jewelry from Ancient Nubia (located in what is now Sudan). The Nubian adornments housed at the MFA constitute the most comprehensive collection outside Khartoum. “Gold and the Gods” includes more than one hundred treasures, including a gilt-silver mummy mask of Queen Malakaye and the famous Hathor-headed c...
Dates:July 19, 2014 10:00 am to May 14, 2017 05:00 pm
Address:465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
Phone:617-267-9300
Contact:Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Website:http://www.mfa.org
Landscape, abstracted - Boston, Massachusetts
Ten works in the exhibition, including sculptures, paintings, installation, and video art, present contemporary art as the latest chapter in the story of landscape art through the ages, as told by the MFA’s encyclopedic collection. Works include a number of new acquisitions that have never before been on view, as well as new commissions by Jason Middlebrook and Anne Lindberg. Their soaring c...
Dates:August 16, 2014 10:00 am to July 30, 2017 05:00 pm
Address:465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
Phone:617-267-9300
Contact:Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Website:http://www.mfa.org
Nature, Sculpture, Abstraction, and Clay 100 Years of American Ceramics - Boston, Massachusetts
This exhibition explores ceramic art from the late 19th century to today–from the Arts and Crafts movement to Midcentury Modernism to Studio Craft and contemporary practice. Outstanding works that display the transformative nature of clay include objects drawn from the MFA’s rich holdings as well as a number of local private collections. The exhibition features more than 70 works organ...
Dates:January 17, 2015 10:00 am to January 03, 2016 05:00 pm
Address:465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
Phone:617-267-9300
Contact:Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Website:http://www.mfa.org
Herb Ritts - Boston, Massachusetts
This new exhibition of the photographer’s work revisits the artist, whose groundbreaking 1996 retrospective, “Herb Ritts: WORK,” remains one of the most popular exhibitions in MFA history. The Ritts Foundation has given the Museum a print of every image in the 1996 exhibition, and in 2007, supported the MFA’s first gallery dedicated solely to photography. Herb Ritts was a l...
Dates:March 14, 2015 10:00 am to November 08, 2015 05:00 pm
Address:465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
Phone:617-267-9300
Contact:Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Website:http://www.mfa.org
Gonzalo Fuenmayor Tropical Mythologies - Boston, Massachusetts
On view in the exhibition, documents the experience that inspired Fuenmayor to make work on a Colombian banana plantation; his first video art piece. Fuenmayor’s Colombian heritage and Latino identity collide in works that address Latin America’s colonial past and its legacy. With an elegant flourish, he collages familiar symbols of Latin America with those of Europe, melding bananas a...
Dates:April 18, 2015 10:00 am to September 13, 2015 05:00 pm
Address:465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
Phone:617-267-9300
Contact:Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Website:http://www.mfa.org
Arlene Shechet: All at Once - Boston, Massachusetts
This major exhibition features over 150 objects that trace the development of her innovative practice over the past 20 years. For her entire career, Shechet has embraced an experimental approach to sculpture, finding form in the chance processes that occur as mutable materials—such as plaster, ceramic, paper pulp and glass—become solid. Her exhilarating, polymorphic sculptures test the...
Dates:June 10, 2015 10:00 am to September 07, 2015 05:00 pm
Address:100 Northern Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02210, United States
Phone:617-478-3100
Contact:The Institute of Contemporary Art
Website:http://www.icaboston.org
LAFAYETTE: AN AMERICAN ICON - Boston, Massachusetts
The exhibition is inspired by the recent historic reconstruction of Hermione, the frigate that brought Lafayette back to America in 1780. That ship, with its game-changing news, made landfall in Boston in April of that year, and its modern descendant will visit the city in July 2015. The Athenæum’s exhibition features works borrowed from a number of major American institutions. Th...
Dates:June 17, 2015 09:00 am to September 27, 2015 08:00 pm
Address:10 ½ Beacon St., Boston, Massachusetts 02108, United States
Phone:617) 227-0270
Contact:Boston Athenæum
Website:http://www.bostonathenaeum.org
Pastoral to Pop 20th-Century Britain on Paper - Boston, Massachusetts
Highlights of the exhibition are streamlined color linocuts made by Grosvenor School artists Cyril Power, Sybil Andrews, and Lill Tschudi, while abstract works on view demonstrate the “Vorticist” style—a uniquely British variant of Futurism and Cubism. Other sections of the exhibition touch on landscape, architecture, and the music hall; differing depictions of the human figure (...
Dates:July 11, 2015 10:00 am to February 21, 2016 05:00 pm
Address:465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
Phone:617-267-9300
Contact:Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Website:http://www.mfa.org
Unfinished Stories Snapshots from the Peter J. Cohen Collection - Boston, Massachusetts
This exhibition celebrates a century of snapshots from the Peter J. Cohen Collection of amateur photographs. An avid collector, Cohen rescued more than 50,000 lost, discarded, or disowned personal photographs, culled from flea markets, antique shops, galleries, eBay, and private dealers. These pictures reveal the lives of strangers through intimate exposures, telling a story, or as Cohen puts it, ...
Dates:July 11, 2015 10:00 am to February 21, 2016 05:00 pm
Address:465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
Phone:617-267-9300
Contact:Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Website:http://www.mfa.org
Ethan Murrow - Boston, Massachusetts
This exhibition illustrates these large-scale temporary pieces in ballpoint pen or marker expand the artist’s laborious drawing process into the realms of installation and architecture. In recent years, Murrow has undertaken a series of increasingly ambitious wall drawings. Thursday and Friday - 10:00am - 9:00pm
Dates:July 11, 2015 10:00 am to November 27, 2016 05:00 pm
Address:100 Northern Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02210, United States
Phone:617-478-3100
Contact:The Institute of Contemporary Art
Website:http://www.icaboston.org
Transcending Material: ICA Collection - Boston, Massachusetts
This exhibition display brings together works by a variety of artists who have used commonplace materials in new ways. Many employ everyday materials such as pins, glass, and wood, transcending their original function to suggest new material associations. Sculpture today is an expansive medium that includes a range of phenomena, forms, techniques, and materials; the category includes discret...
Dates:July 23, 2015 10:00 am to July 17, 2016 05:00 pm
Address:100 Northern Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02210, United States
Phone:617-478-3100
Contact:The Institute of Contemporary Art
Website:http://www.icaboston.org
Yours Sincerely, John S. Sargent - Boston, Massachusetts
This exhibition selected from the archive and the MFA’s collection, brings Sargent’s era to life, enhancing our understanding of the man and his work. The show features watercolors, prints, drawings, correspondence, and photographs arranged around several themes. Caricatures of Sargent by his friends and fellow artists Henry Tonks and Max Beerbohm add a dose of humor to our view of this hard...
Dates:July 25, 2015 10:00 am to November 15, 2015 05:00 pm
Address:465 Huntington Avenue , Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
Phone:617-267-9300
Contact:Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Website:http://www.mfa.org
Made in the Americas The New World Discovers Asia - Boston, Massachusetts
Featuring nearly 100 of the most extraordinary objects produced in the colonies, this exhibition explores the rich, complex story of how craftsmen throughout the hemisphere adapted Asian styles in a range of materials—from furniture to silverwork, textiles, ceramics, and painting. Exquisite objects from Mexico City, Lima, Quito, Quebec City, Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, dating from th...
Dates:August 18, 2015 10:00 am to February 15, 2016 05:00 pm
Address:465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
Phone:617-267-9300
Contact:Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Website:http://www.mfa.org
Crafted Objects in Flux - Boston, Massachusetts
The exhibition includes more than 30 emerging and established international artists, featuring a selection of works from across the landscape of contemporary craft. Looking to a broad range of materials and practices, the exhibition explores the connections between craft and performance; the opportunities provided by new technologies and materials; and the power of rethinking craft’s interac...
Dates:August 25, 2015 10:00 am to January 10, 2016 05:00 pm
Address:465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
Phone:617-267-9300
Contact:Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Website:http://www.mfa.org
Erin Shirreff - Boston, Massachusetts
In this exhibition Shirreff’s artistic process often begins with a sculpture, whether one she has created or another artist’s, which she then photographs or films. The resulting works explore the complexities of representing three-dimensional objects in a two-dimensional medium—a problem that has challenged sculptors and photographers alike for the better part of a century—...
Dates:August 26, 2015 10:00 am to November 29, 2015 05:00 pm
Address:100 Northern Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02210, United States
Phone:617-478-3100
Contact:The Institute of Contemporary Art
Website:http://www.icaboston.org
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