BOSTON (September 4, 2025)—The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has announced its lineup of 2025–2026 exhibitions, including Of Light and Air: Winslow Homer in Watercolor, a rare display of light-sensitive works that opens November 2. In the spring, the Museum presents Reframing Nature: Gardens and the Imagination, which coincides with the 50th anniversary of Art in Bloom, the MFA’s beloved festival of art and flowers. Additional exhibitions explore subjects ranging from street photography to vivid depictions of Hindu gods and goddesses from the 19th century, as well as works by contemporary artists Martin Puryear and Rosângela Rennó.

This fall the MFA also launches $5 Third Thursdays, offering $5 minimum, pay-what-you-wish admission after 5 pm on the third Thursday of every month. Visitors are invited to explore the galleries until 10 pm and enjoy special programming ranging from community celebrations to musical performances. The $5 Third Thursdays kick off on September 18, when the MFA hosts Latinx Heritage Night, an evening celebrating Latinx heritage and culture with live music, dance performances, and talks in the galleries. Special events on Third Thursdays throughout the year will include celebrations of Diwali (October 23), Hanukkah (December 18), Lunar New Year (February 19), and Nowruz (March 19) as well as live performances in the galleries, art making, and other pop-up activities.

2025–2026 Exhibition Schedule

Martin Puryear: Nexus

September 27, 2025–February 8, 2026

The most comprehensive presentation of the artist’s practice to date features iconic sculptures—including works not publicly shown in decades—as well as prints and drawings. Co-organized with the Cleveland Museum of Art, the exhibition explores the global histories that influenced Puryear’s practice, with a particular focus on Black history, material culture, and the natural world.

Faces in the Crowd: Street Photography

October 11, 2025–July 13, 2026

The ubiquity of camera phones today has very much made all the world a stage. With this development, contemporary photographers have veered from surreptitious techniques of the past in favor of carefully collaborating with subjects to stage street scenes. Faces in the Crowd creates a compelling visual conversation between the work of today’s photographers and examples of street photography of yesteryear, marking the change in artists’ techniques over time.

Of Light and Air: Winslow Homer in Watercolor

November 2, 2025–January 19, 2026

The MFA houses the largest collection of Boston-born artist Winslow Homer’s (1836–1910) watercolors in the world. Rarely displayed due to their light sensitivity, dozens of these works are shown together alongside important oils, drawings, and prints by Homer for the first time in nearly half a century. The artist’s luminous views transport viewers to the rugged Maine coast, the Adirondack Mountains, seaside England, Caribbean waters, and beyond.

Modern Art Galleries

Fall 2025

Four new galleries will showcase works from the 20th century that highlight the transatlantic exchange, creative innovation, and social, cultural, and political concerns that shaped the development of modernism. The installations will feature both MFA works and loans from private collections by artists including Alexander Calder, Arshile Gorky, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Piet Mondrian, Agnes Pelton, Mark Rothko, Remedios Varo, and more.

One Hundred Stitches, One Hundred Villages: The Beauty of Patchwork in Rural China

December 6, 2025–May 3, 2026

In rural Chinese villages today, women are creating dynamic patchwork textiles, as their mothers and grandmothers did before them. One Hundred Stitches, One Hundred Villages offers visitors the chance to engage with and learn about the personal histories behind nearly 20 of these kaleidoscopic textiles, which are rarely seen outside the villages where they are made.

Divine Color: Hindu Prints from Modern Bengal

January 31–May 31, 2026

Vivid images of divinities are ubiquitous in Hindu life today. Discover their fascinating origins in this exhibition, the first of its kind in the U.S., which presents rarely seen lithographic prints by Bengali artists from 19th-century Calcutta (present day Kolkata) alongside other related prints, paintings, sculpture, and textiles.

Framing Nature: Gardens and the Imagination

March 15–June 28, 2026

Gardens carry a range of feelings, memories, and associations for individuals and communities alike. This exhibition unites works from across the Museum’s collections—including beloved favorites and unseen masterpieces—to consider gardens’ surprising similarities and juxtapositions over time and place, and how humans relate to the natural world.

Fazendo a América: Rosângela Rennó and Histories of Memory and Migration in Brazil

April 4–August 2, 2026

This exhibition consists of five immersive photographic installations, four previous works by Rosângela Rennó (born 1962) and one commissioned by the MFA, which address marginalized histories and challenge how historical narratives have been constructed through visual culture

America at 250

June 2026

Coinciding with the 250th anniversary of American Independence, the MFA is reimagining the 18th-century galleries on the first floor of the Art of the Americas Wing. The new displays bring together works from across the Americas and explore how artists have contributed to, or in some cases resisted, ideas of nationhood and identity.

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