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andytseng.bsky.social
This is sad to hear. I've always loved my visits to MFA Boston - so many fascinating exhibits. If you're in Massachusetts, consider becoming a member like me - it’s well worth it.
#MFABoston #Massachusetts #Arts #Culture #Museums
MFA Boston announces layoffs to address projected $13 million budget deficit
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston announced layoffs for the second time in six years this week.
www.masslive.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:32 PM
ceruleanlib.bsky.social
At the #MFABoston for an excellent Winslow Homer watercolor exhibit. Good fun! #art #watercolor #winslowhomer
Winslow Homer watercolor works exhibit poster at Boston’s MFA. One of the curator’s helpful additons explaining the words Homer painted on the walls of his workspace. A monumental Dale Chihuly piece in the MFA atrium. The glass sculpture is bright chartreuse and resembles a tall thin pine.
January 18, 2026 at 7:53 PM
bmeds328.bsky.social
A couple of photos from visiting the MFA Boston earlier tonight. #MFABoston
A photograph taken of a model ship A photo taken of a very full and lively gallery
January 16, 2026 at 3:23 AM
kylehemingway.com
Another year, another lovely #ArtInTune at the #MFABoston (and my delightful alma mater #HandelAndHaydnSociety turning it out).
January 16, 2026 at 1:00 AM
davidcolarusso.com
The Winslow Homer exhibit at #MFABoston is really good,¹ & given watercolor’s sensitivity to light, they only tend to display the collection every 40-50 years. No pressure; it runs through Jan 19.

If like me you dabble in watercolor, nothing can replace in-person. 🎨👌

¹ www.mfa.org/exhibition/o...
That image shows The Blue Boat (1892) by Winslow Homer. It’s a watercolor depicting two figures in a blue rowboat on quiet water, with their reflections mirrored below and a low, grassy shoreline behind them. The loose yet controlled brushwork, natural palette, and calm outdoor setting are characteristic of Homer’s late watercolors, emphasizing everyday labor and the quiet rhythm of life close to nature. Old Settlers (1892) by Winslow Homer. It’s a watercolor depicting tall pine trees rising from a rocky hillside, with distant blue hills and a pale sky beyond. The composition emphasizes vertical trunks and quiet endurance, a hallmark of Homer’s late work.
December 31, 2025 at 10:13 PM
liekew.bsky.social
I find it a mesmerizing, telling painting, but it also saddens me as it is perhaps a bit too recognizable to my liking. Yet, it was an encounter to remember.

William Merritt Chase, A Modern Magdalene (detail), ca. 1888
Collection of, seen at @mfaboston

#ArtAdvent
#MaryMagdalene

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December 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
andytseng.bsky.social
Had a pleasant time at mfa.org today - some real gems in there!
#MFABoston #MuseumOfFineArts #Boston #MeTime #SelfDiscovery #MindfulMoments
Vertical handwritten-style white text reading “twalla twalla twan” on a dark wall, accompanied by a wavy line, part of a minimalist art installation. Ornate gold picture frame mounted on a gallery wall with a placard titled “Who is Missing?” explaining the absence of a painting. Photograph of a woman in a peach gown with dark feathered wings standing in a grassy area, with a cityscape and crane in the background. Wall-mounted installation of nine sculpted hands in various American Sign Language gestures, each uniquely colored and arranged in a horizontal line.
December 7, 2025 at 2:34 AM
liekew.bsky.social
Looking at this work put a bit smile on my face and made me want to do each and every one of these things - in the museum, and outside.

@jeppehein, Please… (2008)
In collection of, seen at @mfaboston

#ArtAdvent
#Advent
#Please

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November 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
kylehemingway.com
A fantastic and long overdue return to the #MFABoston.

Come along through the evening with me 👇
El Anatsui Black River, 2009 Aluminum, bottle caps and copper wire
November 14, 2025 at 2:02 AM
martinkohout.bsky.social
@sonyagz123, @marthafoley147, and I went to the wonderful #winslowhomer exhibition at the @mfaboston today #oflightandairwinslowhomerinwatercolor #boston #massachusetts
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 AM
drm.bsky.social
Today’s visit to the MFA.
MFABoston staircase. Art from styrofoam cups - Tara Donovan https://collections.mfa.org/objects/556050 Jenny Holzer. https://collections.mfa.org/objects/548376/selections-from-the-survival-series-ride-the-planet-while-i
October 31, 2025 at 2:28 AM
btf-btff.bsky.social
One of Those Days When Hemme Dies
Hemme'nin Öldüğü Günlerden Biri
by Murat Fıratoğlu

Co-presented with @mfaboston Film Program

OCTOBER 30, 2025
7:30pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

30th Boston Turkish Arts & Culture Festival
Oct.29-Dec.15, 2025

bostonturkishfestival.org
October 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
beancurling.bsky.social
Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

1/20. Summer Night's Dream (The Voice) by Edvard Munch.
MFABoston
Summer Night's Dream (The Voice). A woman in a white dress leans slightly forward with her hands behind her back in a wooded area near a moonlit beach with a couple in a boat in the background
October 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
stacos.bsky.social
FENWAY | gentleman sudden outta control outside the
@mfaboston on Huntington x Ruggles, BPD rollin to calm him down.

#648pm
October 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM
anntracy.bsky.social
#MFABoston iPod Touch photo that still needs tweaking in photoshop
October 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
annalsofwarren.bsky.social
in the mood for a dark and foretelling Lane

Fishing Party
Fitz Henry Lane (American, 1804–1865)1850
Medium/Technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
49.85 x 76.83 cm (19 5/8 x 30 1/4 in.)

check it out at mfaboston

#BlueSkyArtShow
#landscape
#nature
#landscapepainting
#Americanartists
clouds coming or going humans and natural landscape and making an entrance with Lane, it's always old giving way to new
September 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
mdstamper.bsky.social
“Hope” by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (English) - Oil on canvas / 1896 - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Massachusetts) #WomenInArt #hope #art #artText #MFAboston #EdwardColeyBurne-Jones #Burne-Jones #artwork #OilPainting #WomanPortrait #BlueskyArt #EnglishArt #EnglishArtist #MuseumofFineArtsBoston
“Hope” by English artist Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones is a striking late work by one of the leading figures of the Pre-Raphaelite / Arts & Crafts movement. The painting was commissioned by Mrs. George Marston Whitin (Catharine Lasell Whitin) who originally requested a painting of a dancing figure; however, the artist who was freshly grieving the loss of his friend English poet, novelist, translator, and pioneering designer William Morris, proposed instead this allegory of hope. The painting personifies Hope as a chained, imprisoned figure indoors, yet not defeated. Despite her confinement with chains around her ankle and prison bars, she lifts one arm skywards, reaching toward the blue sky through a barred window. In her other hand, she holds a branch of apple blossoms, a traditional symbol of renewal and the promise of life. The upward gesture combats darkness; the blossoms suggest spring, rebirth, and fragile beauty. Burne-Jones based this oil painting on an earlier 1871 watercolor and a design for stained‐glass windows of the Christian Virtues Faith, Hope, and Charity. The vertical format of “Hope” recalls the scale and proportions of stained glass and textile panels, elements Burne-Jones often designed. The work carries deep symbolic resonance: Hope is constrained, yet not extinguished. The chain and bars denote suffering or limitation; the reaching toward light suggests aspiration, faith in what lies beyond immediate adversity. The apple blossom branch signifies a delicate but living hope. In historical context, Burne-Jones was working at a time (1890s England) when many artists, writers and thinkers were preoccupied with the role of moral and spiritual ideals in a changing, more secular, industrial world. “Hope” can be read both as personal mourning and as broader meditation on how one retains aspiration under constraint. After Mrs. Whitin’s death, her daughters donated “Hope” to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston “in memory of Mrs. George Marston Whitin.”
September 18, 2025 at 6:47 AM
zaswadosaze.bsky.social
mfaboston

This figure has an incredible history.

🎨: August "Cap" Coleman (American, 1884–1973), "Battleship Kate" (about 1935), ink and oil on papier-mâché, rayon, silver thread.
September 14, 2025 at 11:26 PM
myimaginarybrklyn.bsky.social
Carl Wilhelm Kolbe

#printmaking #etching #MFABoston #CarlWilhelmKolbe
September 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM
zaswadosaze.bsky.social
Marching to a Different Drummer
Robert Colescott (American, 1925–2009) 1989
Acrylic on canvas
213.4 x 182.9 cm (84 x 72 in.) ... mfaboston
Robert Colescott's satirical, visually dense paintings layer references to and rejections of simplistic, white supremacist beliefs that structure U.S. society.
September 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
martyhoran144.bsky.social
Whirlwind #Boston trip which included time for family, friends & culture! #VanGogh exhibit of Roulin Family Portraits at #mfaBoston was spectacular & is a #MustSee before it closes 9/7/25! 💛🎨🖼️🌻 Also, I was tempted, but I did NOT buy the $600 VG skateboard collection in the gift shop‼️🤣🛹 #ArtSky #art
August 23, 2025 at 3:31 AM
myimaginarybrklyn.bsky.social
#illustration #ephemera #postcard #lithograph #19thcentury #mfaboston
August 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
joanperr.bsky.social
Weekend trip to Boston
#Fenway
#MFABoston
#harbortour

P.S. Odilion Redon is the unsung hero of #French.Impressionism
August 17, 2025 at 2:46 AM
wevertson.bsky.social
“Citizen Journalist” was recently included in the @mfaboston exhibition, Power of People: Art and Democracy.
With the capitulation of ordinary Republicans, Universities, legacy media, and courts in service to white nationalists it’s incumbent on We the People to preserve our democracy. #art
August 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
spiritstraveler.bsky.social
My blog about finishing up my third Boston trip.
www.wineandspiritstravel.com/2025/07/its-...?

@MeetBostonusa
@CheersBoston
@hiltonbostonparkplaza
@bostonpublicgarden
@mfaboston
#wheelchairtravel #wheelchairlife ♿️
#accessible #accessibility
#history #sightseeing
It’s Not Boston Without Cheers
A day in Boston includes a visit to Cheers and time at the Museum of Fine Arts.
www.wineandspiritstravel.com
August 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM