How design made America modern: masterpieces of furniture, metalware and plastics from the early ...

Postcards of a nation embracing a new democratic technology

Cy Twombly's first visit to Italy as a young man ignited a lifelong passion for classical culture...

The African art collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, offers a portal into the life and ...

Ancient Greek, Roman and Etruscan civilizations come to life in this illustrated selection of 100...

The world-renowned collection of European decorative arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is ...

An intimate look into the legacy of a famed American stained glass artist

Musical instruments are among the most meaningful artifacts produced by humankind, a marriage of ...

The catastrophic events of March 11, 2011the earthquake, tsunami, and ensuing nuclear meltdown of...

In the decades around 1900, postcards were Twitter, email, Flickr and Facebook, all wrapped into ...

Mary Cassatt: I Am Independent

A glorious trove of miniature art across eras and mediums-from ancient Egypt to the present, from...

A stunning visual journey through four millennia of jewelry as told through the exemplary collect...

Frank's artist's book and love letter for his first wife exemplifies the poetic, virtuosic approa...

Examining the history of photography and the medium's uses beyond fine art

A concise introduction to the MFA Boston's celebrated collection of South Asian art

More than half of the worlds megacitiescities with populations of ten million or moreare in Asia....

The tale of a classical statue's journey from a Roman theatre to the MFA Boston

The Dutch Republic in the 17th century was home to one of the greatest flowerings of painting in ...

The Chinese art collection in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is one of the finest outside East ...

American Decorative Arts features over 100 carefully selected masterpieces of furniture, silver, ...

On the night of December 25, 1776, George Washington led his ragged Continental Army through a sn...

The stars and denizens of Toulouse-Lautrec's bohemian cabaret world

The authoritative guide to the MFA Boston's era-spanning collections of art, ceramics, jewelry an...

Art in the Americas

The first comprehensive exploration of postcards used as propaganda on all sides of the major mil...

How artists have interpreted the intrigues and love stories of The Tale of Genji, one of the worl...

Highlights from one of the world's most impressive private collections of Dutch Golden Age master...

Born in Italy, trained in Paris and a resident of London, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) became ...

Digging for a lost civilization in the Nile Valley

A gorgeously printed panorama of the 20th century's defining photographs

Located at the intersection of trade routes from central Africa, the ancient Near East and the Cl...

Contemporary Chinese society has been called a culture at the crossroads of the past and the futu...

Mixed from egg whites and vegetable tints, water and soot, oils and rare minerals and applied to ...

Presents the best of the collection of early European painting and sculpture held by the Museum o...

Atget's charming postcard portraits of Paris tradespeople were his only publications during his l...

Developed during the mid-19th century in China, the bapo (or 'eight brokens') painting genre comb...

A lavish exploration of Sargent's relationship to fashion, featuring exquisite costumes from the ...

Though conservation plays a decisive role in the public's experience of artworks in museums, visi...

The story of African Americans in the visual arts has closely paralleled their social, political ...

The lives, works and imagery of women artists, patrons and icons in Renaissance Italy

The life of Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) is one of the richest and most mythic in the history of West...

Artistic representations of gardens across history, cultures and mediums, featuring work by such ...

In the early 1980s, art and writing labeled as graffiti transitioned from New York City walls and...

The collection of Native American artworks is one of the hidden treasures of the Museum of Fine A...

Often overlooked-until now-Weston's early photography is painterly and luscious

A perennial favorite returns to print in this sumptuous volume celebrating six decades of automot...

An accessible exploration of the rich and varied portrait traditions of Ancient Egypt, based on m...