Visual Arts

Art of the Netherlands in the 17th Century Gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Inside the MFA's newly renovated Dutch and Flemish art galleries

Art, geo-politics and commerce suggestively underlay all the displays in the seven renovated galleries at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, says arts critic Lloyd Schwartz. These rooms are also...

Arts & Culture

Nov 30, 2021

Museum staff and their supporters picket outside of the front entrance of the Museum of Fine Arts on Huntington Avenue demanding livable wages and decent working conditions. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

MFA Boston union employees strike over wages and stalled negotiations

More than 100 employees from departments across the Museum of Fine Arts -- including curators, conservators and educators -- picketed outside the Huntington Avenue entrance on Wednesday.

Arts & Culture

Nov 17, 2021

Installation view of Sreshta Rit Premnath's "Grave/Grove" at MIT List Visual Art Center. (Courtesy Julia Featheringill)

At MIT List, a sculptor finds resilience in inhospitable places

In his exhibition "Grave/Grove," artist Sreshta Rit Premnath uses live plants in minimalistic sculptures to investigate life along the margins.

Arts & Culture

Nov 15, 2021

Somerville Museum showcases social media from a bygone era: the penny postcard

Penny postcards were "the social media of their day;" through them we can see visions from the past, "from the exotic to the local," with special attention to reminding us...

Arts & Culture

Nov 5, 2021

theo tyson (Courtesy Frances Neyra Claudio)

Meet theo tyson, the MFA's new fashion curator

“I don’t want people to think they need to have a PhD or be a rocket scientist to engage with fashion art, or the arts as a whole,” tyson says....

Arts & Culture

Nov 3, 2021

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Inside the MFA's newly renovated Dutch and Flemish art galleries

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MFA Boston union employees strike over wages and stalled negotiations

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At MIT List, a sculptor finds resilience in inhospitable places

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Somerville Museum showcases social media from a bygone era: the penny postcard

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Meet theo tyson, the MFA's new fashion curator

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Inside the MFA's newly renovated Dutch and Flemish art galleries

Arts & Culture

MFA Boston union employees strike over wages and stalled negotiations

Arts & Culture

At MIT List, a sculptor finds resilience in inhospitable places

Arts & Culture

Somerville Museum showcases social media from a bygone era: the penny postcard

Arts & Culture

Meet theo tyson, the MFA's new fashion curator

Arts & Culture