McMullen Museum exhibitions, more than eighty-five over three decades, comprise works loaned from institutions and collectors around the world. Research-driven with the aim of generating new knowledge on subjects relating to all areas of art history, exhibitions are curated by transdisciplinary teams of faculty scholars and international specialists.
Use this link for an index of publications that accompany the McMullen’s exhibitions.
Current
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Medieval | Renaissance: A Dialogue on Early Italian Painting
September 2–December 7, 2025
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A Fresh Vision: Landscape Painting in Belgium after Romanticism; The School of Tervuren in an International Context
September 2–December 7, 2025
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Martin Karplus: Moments and Monuments
September 2–December 7, 2025
Past
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Wonders of Creation
February 9–June 1, 2025
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States of Becoming
September 9–December 8, 2024
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Gateway to Himalayan Art
September 5–December 10, 2023
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Landscape of Memory: Seven Installations from the Barjeel Art Foundation (Sharjah, UAE)
January 30–June 4, 2023
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Arnie Jarmak: Photographing Chelsea in Transition, 1977–89
September 6–December 4, 2022
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American Alternative Comics, 1980–2000: Raw, Weirdo, and Beyond
September 6–December 4, 2022
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Martin Parr: Time and Place
January 31–June 5, 2022
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Aftermath
January 30–March 14, 2022
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Mariano: Variations on a Theme | Variaciones sobre un tema
September 7–December 5, 2021
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Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s
February 1–June 13, 2021
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Indian Ocean Current: Six Artistic Narratives
January 27–November 24, 2020
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Simon Dinnerstein: “The Fulbright Triptych”
September 9–December 8, 2019
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Alen MacWeeney and a Century of New York Street Photography
September 9–December 8, 2019
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William Trost Richards: Hieroglyphs of Landscape
September 9–December 8, 2019
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Mary Armstrong: Conditions of Faith
September 9–December 8, 2019
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Eaglemania: Collecting Japanese Art in Gilded Age America
February 11–June 2, 2019
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Cuenca: City of Spanish Abstraction
February 11–June 2, 2019
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Hartmut Austen: Not There, Not Here
September 10–December 13, 2018
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Carrie Mae Weems: Strategies of Engagement
September 10–December 13, 2018
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Cao Jun: Hymns to Nature
February 5–June 3, 2018
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Esteban Lisa: The Abstract Cabinet
September 16–December 10, 2017
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Nature’s Mirror: Reality and Symbol in Belgian Landscape
September 10–December 10, 2017
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New England Sky: Alston Conley
September 10–December 10, 2017
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Rafael Soriano: The Artist as Mystic
January 30–June 4, 2017
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Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections; Manuscripts for Pleasure & Piety
September 12–December 11, 2016
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Andrew Tavarelli: Global Convergences
September 12–December 11, 2016
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The Arts and Crafts Movement: Making It Irish
February 6–June 5, 2016
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John La Farge and the Recovery of the Sacred
September 1–December 13, 2015
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Roman in the Provinces: Art on the Periphery of Empire
February 14–May 31, 2015
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Wifredo Lam: Imagining New Worlds
August 30–December 14, 2014
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Paris Night and Day: Photography between the Wars
February 15–June 8, 2014
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Courbet: Mapping Realism
September 1–December 8, 2013
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Portugal, Jesuits, and Japan: Spiritual Beliefs and Earthly Goods
February 16–June 2, 2013
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Paul Klee: Philosophical Vision; From Nature to Art
September 1–December 9, 2012
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Rural Ireland: The Inside Story
February 11—June 3, 2012
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Making History: Antiquaries in Britain
September 4—December 11, 2011
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Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity
February 5—June 5, 2011
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Literary Lives: Portraits from the Crawford Art Gallery and Abbey Theatre, Ireland
September 4—December 5, 2010
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Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-War America
February 6–June 6, 2010
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First Hand: Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection
September 5–December 13, 2009
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The Book as Art: Artists’ Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts
February 14–May 31, 2009
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Mystic Masque: Semblance and Reality in Georges Rouault, 1871–1958
August 30—December 7, 2008
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Tree of Paradise: Jewish Mosaics from the Roman Empire
February 17—June 8, 2008
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Pollock Matters
September 1–December 9, 2007
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A New Key: Modern Belgian Art from the Simon Collection
February 10–July 22, 2007
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Cosmophilia: Islamic Art from the David Collection, Copenhagen
September 1–December 31, 2006
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SecularSacred: 11th to 16th Century Works from the Museum of Fine Arts and the Boston Public Library
February 19–June 4, 2006
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Power of Conversation
August 22–December 4, 2005
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TREE: A New Vision of the American ForestPhotographs by James Balog
April 14–July 12, 2005
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GONE: Site-Specific Works by Dorothy Cross
April 14–July 12, 2005
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Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy
January 15–March 24, 2005
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Fernand Khnopff: Inner Visions and Landscapes
September 19–December 5, 2004
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Sarah Westlake: Drawings ↔ Sculpture
June 14–August 29, 2004
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Refigured
June 14–August 29, 2004
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Matta: Making the Invisible Visible
February 1–May 18, 2004
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Reflections in Black: African American Photographs from the Smithsonian Institution
September 26–December 7, 2003
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Ancient Microworlds
June 11–September 7, 2003
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Common Ground: Photographers on the Street
June 11–September 7, 2003
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Éire|Land
February 2–May 19, 2003
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Cowboys, Indians & the Big Picture
October 6–December 8, 2002
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Feldberg CollectionReclaiming a Lost Generation: German Self-Portraits from the Feldberg Collection
October 6–December 8, 2002
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In a Perfect World: Bermuda in the Context of American Landscape Painting
May 16–September 15, 2002
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André Masson Inside/Outside Surrealism: Works from the Gotlieb Collection
January 28–April 28, 2002
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Hope [Photographs]
September 30–December 9, 2001
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House: Charged Space
June 11–September 16, 2001
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Edvard Munch: Psyche, Symbol and Expression
February 5–May 21, 2001
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Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde
October 15–December 10, 2000
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Françoise Gilot, 1940–1950
June 14–September 24, 2000
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Hand-Held Delight: The Eighteenth-Century Fan
June 14–September 24, 2000
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Fragmented Devotion: Medieval Objects from the Schnütgen Museum, Cologne
February 6–May 22, 2000
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Irish Art Now: From the Poetic to the Political
October 1–December 12, 1999
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Artists at Boston College: Celebrating 25 Years of Excellence in the Visual Arts
June 16–September 12, 1999
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Saints and Sinners: Caravaggio and the Baroque Image
June 16–September 12, 1999
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Art and Literature: Three Exhibitions
June 23–September 20, 1998
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Visionary States: Surrealist Prints from the Gilbert Kaplan Collection
January 18–May 17, 1998
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Re/Dressing Cathleen: Contemporary Works from Irish Women Artists
October 5–December 7, 1997
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In Print: Contemporary Artists at the Vinalhaven Press
June 18–September 14, 1997
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Original Visions: Shifting the Paradigm, Women’s Art 1970–1996
January 26–May 18, 1997
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J. M. W. Turner and the Romantic Vision of the Holy Land and the Bible
October 8–December 15, 1996
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A Shadow Born of Earth: New Photography in Mexico
June 5–September 15, 1996
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America’s Eye: Irish Paintings from the Collection of Brian P. Burns
January 26–May 19, 1996
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Protection, Power and Display:Shields of Island Southeast Asia and Melanesia
October 6–December 10, 1995
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Memory and the Middle Ages
February 17—May 23,1995
