Exhibitions in Boston

Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston

Anniversary show revisiting nine exhibitions and initiatives from the ICA's history, from its 1936 founding as the Boston Museum of Modern Art through thirteen homes and its 1966 Warhol survey.

Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston

A site-responsive commission for the Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall by the Algonquin-Anishinaabe artist, made in response to the ICA's own filled-in waterfront site.

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

Azadeh Akhlaghi restages eleven pivotal deaths from Iran's history, 1908-1979, as meticulously researched tableaux shot on location - sixteen photographs plus archival material.

Harvard Art Museums · Free

Tracing the artistic lineage of Filipino-American painter Alfonso Ossorio through a body of works that resonates across generations, in the Modern and Contemporary Art galleries.

Harvard Museum of Natural History

Rare specimens from Harvard's 26-million-object vaults, many on public display for the first time - from George Washington's golden pheasants to the only complete Lewis & Clark bird specimen.

Harvard Art Museums · Free

How did photography construct cultural memories of postwar America? A University Research Gallery show drawn from the museums' American Professional Photographers Collection.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Renoir set apart from his Impressionist peers by his subject: friendship, family and flirtation, love depicted as happy and discreet. Includes the Musée d'Orsay's Bal du moulin de la Galette.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Kawada Kikuji's 1965 photobook Chizu, in which Coca-Cola bottles, ruined fortresses and the stained walls of the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dome resist any single narrative of postwar Japan.