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

Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Bo...

Resplendent watercolors of the 19th-century world by New England native Winslow Homer

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

Tracing the rich tradition of Chinese patchwork art in domestic and rural spaces, from its ancien...

Sarah E. Thompson is Curator of Japanese Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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

Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch is Head of the Arts of Africa and Oceania, and Teel Curatorof African and ...

Edited by Christine Kondoleon. Text by Richard Grossmann, Jennifer L. Heuser.

Explores the dynamic and complex traditions of Islamic art through more than 115 major works in a...

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

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

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

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....

A compact and illuminating introduction to Thomas Sully's monumental painting of George Washingto...

Some 120 masterpieces of furniture, silver, glass, medals, and sculpture are featured, including ...

This newly updated edition of the definitive guide to the MFA's most enduring masterpieces provid...

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

Kristen Gresh is Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh Curator of Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, B...

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

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

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

The lineage of the 'superflat': Murakami's vision of the Japanese aesthetic

An introduction to the dazzling paintings of an Impressionist master

Erica E. Hirshler is Croll Senior Curator of American Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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

The first book on the Arts and Crafts movement behind the 'Boston Look'

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

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...

This is a book about Edward Weston before he was Edward Weston - before he wasthe renowned modern...

The diverse and sometimes hidden stories of the American experience told by quilts and bedcovers ...

The MFA's holdings of Japanese art make up the finest and most comprehensive collection outside o...

The blossoming of contemporary crafts in Japan that began in the twentieth century is rooted in a...

John Singer Sargent's approach to watercolor was unconventional. His confidently bold, dense stro...

Among private collections of fine photography, the Lane Collection stands out as one of the most ...

'This book was published in conjunction with the exhibition Quilts and color: the Pilgrim Roy Col...

A snapshot of the current state of the field of contemporary craft, where boundaries between art,...

Gerald W. R. Ward is Katharine Lane Weems Senior Curator of American DecorativeArts and Sculpture...

Sometime in the early fourth century BC, an unknown Egyptian master carved an exquisite portrait ...

New in the MFA HIGHLIGHTS series, which presents the best of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's co...

Ancient Nubia was home to a series of civilizations between the sixth millennium BCE and 350 CE t...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has been at the forefront in presenting pre-Columbian artifacts ...

A new addition to the MFA Highlights series.

Karsh: A Biography in Images gives an overview of the photographer's career, from his beginnings ...