Gilded New York explores the city’s visual culture at the end of the 19th century, when its elite class flaunted their money as never before.  The exhibition presents a lavish display of some 100 works, including costumes, jewelry, portraits, and decorative objects, all created between the mid-1870s and the early 20th century. The dazzling works in the exhibition will illuminate an era ...

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The exhibition consisting of four large-scale compositions, printed on transparencies and displayed on light boxes mounted in four ground-floor windows, Yellow emits a gentle incandescent light that celebrates MAM’s intimate character, calling to mind a candlelit domestic space and animating the building’s façade. Each of the four compositions, which seen up close resembles an ...

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March 9, 2014 - Februsry 28, 2017 - The installation will harness daylight and artificial light as mediums with which to create, blurring the line between the physical drawing and the light drawing. The space will be filled with sinuous, large, sprawling structures on two opposing walls which transmit, reflect, and refract light while the painted dark walls of the gallery are enclosed with images ...

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This exhibition celebrates China's artistic achievements crystallized in seasonal festivals, religious ceremonies and celebrations. Discover plants and animals, myths and symbols and decipher the Chinese character for "Double Happiness."  With more than 30 highlights from the museum's wide-ranging Chinese collection spanning 3,000 years. Closed Monday

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This exhibition presents artworks that convey broadly shared aesthetic and cultural traditions while emphasizing the distinctiveness of various indigenous communities and their artists. The themes - Living Stories, Family Connections and Market Innovations - feature objects from PEM's renowned collection of Native American art from the Northwest Coast. Closed Monday

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The exhibition and national tour are made possible by generous funding from the Henry Luce Foundation, as part of its 75th anniversary initiative. Asa Ames, New Discoveries, by Stacy C. Hollander.  Yield of Total Elation, The Life & Art of A.G. Rizzoli. Closed Monday

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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...

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A 1943 portrait by the renowned modern American painter Milton Avery (1885–1965) of his friend Dikran Kelekian—a noted collector of modern paintings, Coptic, and Islamic art, and an influential dealer in Middle Eastern art of all periods—is the centerpiece of this installation.  The presentation presents one example of Kelekian's success in encouraging contemporary arti...

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This exhibiton is a very early work by Rembrandt, from a series of allegories of the five senses, is on view in the remastered galleries, on loan from one of the greatest private collections of Dutch Golden Age paintings in the world. While certainly the work of a young artist, yet to find his mature voice, this small painting nonetheless reveal many of the distinctive hallmarks of Rembrandt. A lu...

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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...

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