Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
‘Transformative encounters’: Henry Moore seen through the prisms of Ancient Greece and Georgia O’Keeffe
A recent exhibition in Athens highlighting Moore’s concern with light and the history of sculpture is part of a broader mission to shed new light, gradually, on his life and work
Comment | In the run up to the US election, Boston's Museum of Fine Art is hopeful about art's role in a democratic future
The museum's latest exhibition explains and scrutinises democracy through objects spanning 2,500 years
MFA Boston gets $25m gift to renovate galleries and add staff
The Wyss Foundation’s donation will create more than 5,000 sq. ft of extra space for the museum’s 20th-century art collection
MFA Boston returns necklace that was likely looted from a tomb to Turkey
Investigations by both the museum's internal team and experts from Turkey's Ministry of Culture suggested the gold and carnelian artefact was exported illegally
MFA Boston director Matthew Teitelbaum will retire after ten-year stint
Teitelbaum has navigated one of the US’s most prominent art museums through a decade of renovations, revamped education initiatives, scandals and shutdowns
MFA Boston’s renovated Japanese art galleries seek to inspire deeper exploration of familiar objects
In the reopened galleries, rotating exhibits highlight collection gems—including seven newly conserved Buddha statues—and technology add-ons expand learning
MFA Boston returns Ancient Egyptian child’s coffin to Swedish museum it disappeared from decades ago
The clay coffin, which the MFA Boston acquired in 1985 with apparently false documentation, has been missing from the Gustavianum, Uppsala University Museum since at least 1970
Hacked for the holidays: how a late-December cyberattack has affected US museums’ digital collections and archives
The Gallery Systems software used by many cultural institutions has been breached, limiting online access for both museum employees and the general public
John Singer Sargent’s eye for fashion unveiled in Boston show
The artist’s portraits will be shown at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston alongside the clothes worn by his glamorous subjects
How women played a bigger role in the Renaissance and beyond
Two exhibitions, in Boston and Baltimore, celebrate the overlooked women artists who were working in Europe from the 15th century onwards
MFA Boston settles ownership dispute with Jewish dealers’ heirs over a painting Hitler wanted for his Führermuseum
"Customers Conversing in a Tavern" (1671) by Dutch Golden Age painter Adriaen van Ostade is up on display after a six years of research and negotiations
Cy Twombly's ties to the past: exhibition explores how US artist drew on ancient cultures of Greece, Rome and Egypt
Travelling show debuted at the Getty and now opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
After 18 months of negotiations, MFA Boston workers reach their first union contract
The contract was approved by 87% of union members and ensures double-digit wage and salary increases over the next three years
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston selling NFTs of rarely-exhibited French Impressionist pastels to raise funds for conservation
The museum, which holds the largest French Impressionist collection outside of France, will use proceeds from sales of around 2,000 NFTs to conserve two Degas paintings
America's racial reckoning: inside the controversial Guston show
Plus, London's new Queer Britain museum and a rediscovered work by Caterina Angela Pierozzi
Controversially postponed Philip Guston show finally gets going. How has it changed?
The changing of dates of a four-city survey, purportedly due to the artist’s Ku Klux Klan motifs, caused uproar in 2020. Now, after a curatorial rethink, the first exhibition is set to open
Acquisitions round-up: Zao Wou-ki's stepdaughter gifts a dozen works by the Modern master to M+
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
How artists and amateur photographers used postcards to great creative effect
Atlanta’s High Museum showcases the work of the Hungarian-born photographer André Kertész, while MFA Boston draws on its archive for an exhibition of photos by unknown enthusiasts
MFA Boston workers who unionised go on strike
More than 200 workers at the museum are striking for a day in protest of stalled contract negotiations
Adversity forces reinvention: Matthew Teitelbaum on turbulent times at the MFA, Boston
After charges of racism levelled at his museum in 2019, Teitelbaum had to deal with the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. And then there was the Guston controversy
Museum of Fine Arts Boston and other US institutions announce a second wave of pandemic closures
Some say they hope to reopen in January, while many others have remained shut for nearly a full year
How Spotify playlists became the new exhibition audio guides
From Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Tate show playlist to the MFA Boston’s Basquiat and hip-hop soundtrack, music can have a profound effect on how we view art
MFA Boston workers vote to unionise in sweeping vote
An overwhelming 90% of employees voted to join the United Auto Workers Local 2110
When Boston fell head-over-heels in love with Monet
A new show at the Museum of Fine Arts recalls the time when the US city was first captivated by the French Impressionist
After tumult, museums say that a delayed Philip Guston exhibition will open in 2022
Citing “unease and anxiety” about the show, the director of MFA, Boston predicts it will spur “in-depth discussions about great art”
From the streets to the studio: show explores how Basquiat, graffiti and hip-hop culture stormed the art world in the 1980s
Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston includes works by Rammellzee, Keith Haring, Kool Koor and Lady Pink
Directors of Tate and the National Gallery of Art defend controversial decision to delay Philip Guston show
“An exhibition with such strong commentary on race cannot be done by all white curators,” says NGA chief Kaywin Feldman
Philip Guston’s KKK paintings ‘are not asleep—they’re woke’: catalogue contradicts museum statement controversially halting show
Essays from African American artists such as Glenn Ligon and Trenton Doyle Hancock show that issues were being addressed
Critics, scholars—and even museum’s own curator—condemn decision to postpone Philip Guston show over Ku Klux Klan imagery
Move is deemed “cowardly” and “patronising” after joint statement from host museums including National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and London’s Tate Modern
After 2019 racial incident, MFA Boston hires a senior director of belonging and inclusion
Appointment follows an agreement with the Massachusetts attorney general to embrace diversity and adopt an anti-harassment policy