To Do Today: Visit the MFA’s New Exhibition, Touching Roots
The MFA is free for BU students, faculty, and staff with a valid BU ID. Photo by Sdkb via Wikimedia Commons
To Do Today: Visit the MFA’s New Exhibition, Touching Roots
Stay cool and see museum’s new show celebrating Black art in the Americas
What?
Touching Roots: Black Ancestral Legacies in the Americas.
When?
Through May 21, 2023. Museum hours are Thursday and Friday, 10 am to 10 pm, and Saturday through Monday, 10 am to 5 pm.
Where?
Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave., Boston. Take an MBTA Green Line E Branch trolley to the Museum of Fine Arts stop or a Route 39 bus from Saint James Ave @ Dartmouth St in Copley Square to Huntington Ave @ Forsyth Way.
How much?
Free for BU students, faculty, and staff with a valid BU ID. Otherwise, general admission is $27 for adults, $10 for youth ages 7 to 17, and free for children 6 and under.
Why should I go?
Looking to beat the heat this summer? Visit Touching Roots: Black Ancestral Legacies in the Americas, the Museum of Fine Arts latest exhibition, which traces the lineage of Black art in the Americas during the 20th century. On display are 35 works, including paintings, sculpture, and textiles, celebrating our country’s African legacy. The exhibition also places a special focus on New England artists.
Works include the painting Ubi Girl from Tai Region, by artist Loïs Mailou Jones, which depicts a young Liberian woman having her face painted to initiate her into adulthood, and Untitled, by Afro-Cuban surrealist Wifredo Lam, whose oil on burlap piece portrays aquatic organisms and Cuba’s indigenous tropical flora and fauna. Both these artists had homes outside Africa, but returned to the continent to reconnect with their heritage, and that inspiration is visible in their art.
This exhibition accompanies Stories Artists Tell: Art of the Americas, the 20th Century. Each room presents a visual history of African American life across the 1900s. See the influence of World War II, ’50s jazz, and Southwest deserts on quintessential American artists.
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