Ahead of our MLK Day Open House in partnership with Citizens, we hosted a special community art-making activity at their branch on Blue Hill Avenue in Dorchester 🎨
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The MFA is open. Open to new ideas that broaden our perspectives. Open to every visitor, from the curious to the lifelong learner. Open to new possibilities discovered through art. Showcasing ancient artistry and modern masterpieces, local legends and global visionaries, our renowned collection of nearly 500,000 works tells the story of the human experience—a story that holds unique meaning for everyone. We welcome diverse perspectives, both within the artwork and among our visitors. Where many worldviews meet, new ways of seeing, thinking, and understanding emerge. The conversations we inspire bring people together—revealing connections, exploring differences, and creating a community where all belong.
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http://www.mfa.org
External link for Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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- 501-1,000 employees
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- Boston, MA
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- 1876
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on this day in 1929. We're honored to celebrate his legacy today with our annual MLK Day Open House in partnership with Citizens, offering free admission for Massachusetts residents! Stop by from 10 am–5 pm to enjoy art making, performances, gallery tours and more. 📷: "King Ends his Speech with the Words of the Old Negro spiritual "Free at Last! Free at Last! Thank God Almighty, We are Free at Last", Washington D.C." (1963). Photograph, gelatin silver print. The Howard Greenberg Collection. © Bob Adelman Estate / Artists Rights Society.
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Visit the MFA for free on January 15 for our annual MLK Day Open House, presented in partnership with Citizens! We're offering free admission from 10 am–5 pm for Massachusetts residents, including access to "Fashioned by Sargent" on its final day. Stop by to enjoy art making, performances and free guided tours of MFA collection highlights, including Kehinde Wiley's "John, 1st Baron Byron": https://bit.ly/3S9sicK 🎨: “John, 1st Baron Byron” (2013), Kehinde Wiley. © Kehinde Wiley Studio.
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In 1892 the MFA hosted a landmark exhibition on the history and technology of printing. Organized by Sylvester Rosa Koehler (1837–1900), the MFA’s first curator of prints and drawings, it included more than 700 works that traced the history of printing in Europe and the United States. Our new digital resource makes the exhibition-related materials—including a reproduction of its foundational catalogue and many rare prints that exist practically nowhere else—accessible online for the first time: https://bit.ly/4apj82T
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"Justice’s paintings are both colorful and critical. Her perspective prompts viewers to question revered male artists and the status quo while paying more respect to female subjects." Learn more about "Dinorá Justice: The Lay of the Land," our School of the Museum of Fine Arts Traveling Fellow exhibition, from WBUR 🔈
Newton-based artist puts a feminist perspective on 'masterpieces'
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"Among the virtues of 'Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party' is how it deepens, broadens, and usefully complicates." 📰 Read Boston Globe Media's review of our new photography exhibition:
No, the revolution wasn't televised, but it was photographed - The Boston Globe
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Small in scale, Donatello’s "Madonna of the Clouds" is monumental in impact—powerful yet tender. Back from its travels in Europe, this 15th-century masterpiece is now on view in our Art of the Italian Renaissance Gallery. Donatello carved this image in flattened relief (rilievo schiacciato), a technique he invented where, with only the most shallow carving, the sculptor creates the illusion of fully rounded forms set into deep, continuous space.
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“The coat is the picture. You must wear it.” Those were the instructions John Singer Sargent gave to W. Graham Robertson, wrapping a long slim overcoat tightly around his sitter despite the heat of summer. Robertson was a young illustrator and designer, a member of the artistic circle around Oscar Wilde, for whom he had designed the costumes for the 1892 production of "Salomé." Sargent invited Robertson to pose and depicted him as an aesthete, in an exaggerated pose with a jade-handled walking stick and his fluffy old poodle. This is one of more than 50 works by Sargent featured in our one-of-a-kind exhibition "Fashioned by Sargent," on view through January 15: https://bit.ly/3ttWqWL 🖼️: "W. Graham Robertson" (1894), oil on canvas, on loan from Tate
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Join us on January 15 for our annual MLK Day Open House, presented in partnership with Citizens! We're offering free admission from 10 am–5 pm for Massachusetts residents, including access to "Fashioned by Sargent" on its final day. Stop by to celebrate the legacy of Dr. King with art making, performances and gallery tours: https://bit.ly/3Rm8Ac9
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A member of the Muridiyya, a prominent Sufi order in Senegal, Yelimane Fall saw his art as a service to God and the world. This work has just been installed in the Lower Rotunda—it is one of six by Fall that were recently acquired by the MFA, as part of our ongoing efforts to grow our collection of Islamic art. The Arabic calligraphy reads: “My sleep is worship of my God, who has no partner. [In sleep,] my heart wonders on these verses, such transmitters of wisdom they are.” The words come from a poem by Muridiyya founder Shaykh Amadu Bamba, whose image appears in the top left corner. 🖼️: “Sleep” (2008), acrylic and paper
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