Exhibitions in Boston

May 2027

May at a glance: 0 exhibitions opening, 1 closing, and 2 more on view across the city.

Closing in May

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection9 May
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.

Also on through May

Renoir and Loveto 13 Jun
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.
Kawada Kikuji: Chizu (The Map)to 18 Jul
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.

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