July 11, 2015 – November 27, 2018 - The artist’s biggest drawing to date, this 40-foot mural references the ICA’s waterfront location – and is created entirely in Sharpie. These large-scale temporary pieces in ballpoint pen or marker expand the artist’s laborious drawing process into the realms of installation and architecture.

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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, ...

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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 (...

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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...

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July 23, 2015 - July 17, 2016 - Discover how artists transform commonplace materials into works of art and meaning.  Sculpture today is an expansive medium that includes a range of phenomena, forms, techniques, and materials; the category includes discrete objects, installations, staged video displays, and even performance. This display of collection works brings together pieces by a v...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Through the juxtaposition of contradictory materials, changes of scale, or the introduction of uncharacteristic elements, she infuses commonplace and even banal objects with an element of danger, references to violence, or the capability to produce bodily harm. In doing so, Hatoum engages viewers’ tactile imagination, her sculptures, photographs, and videos provoking viewers to imagine their...

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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—...

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