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This spring, discover contemporary art at the MFA, including a site-specific installation by Alan Michelson and visitor favorites from the Museum’s collection by artists like Jeffrey Gibson, Mona Hatoum, and Kiki Smith.
Flanking the Museum’s Huntington Avenue Entrance, Alan Michelson’s The Knowledge Keepers honors and celebrates the beauty, presence, agency, and endurance of the Indigenous nations of Massachusetts. The two shimmering sculptures that comprise the work depict Aquinnah Wampanoag member Julia Marden and Nipmuc artist Andre StrongBearHeart Gaines Jr., and are showcased at the MFA as part of the first-ever Boston Public Art Triennial.
Artists often question shared histories as they frame ways for us to understand them differently. The new installation Counter History: Contemporary Art from the Collection offers multiple ways to reconsider the past through the art of our time. Over several planned rotations, the installation brings together more than 70 artists and 140 artworks, and includes many new acquisitions.
Featuring MFA collection works, Rituals for Remembering presents the first focused look at María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Ana Mendieta side by side. Though the two influential artists never met, their practices share a reckoning with displacement and exile from their homes in Cuba, a deep reverence for the land, and a transformative use of natural elements like water, earth, and fire. For both artists, memory, ritual, and spirituality animate their artworks across photography, film, video, drawing, sculpture, installation, and performance.
