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Check out highlights from the MFA’s 2024-2025 exhibition schedule

Seven new exhibits are coming to the Museum of Fine Arts between now and fall 2025.

One of the works on display in the upcoming MFA exhibit "Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits." Museum of Fine Arts Boston

By Lindsay Shachnow

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The Museum of Fine Arts Boston released its exhibition schedule for the upcoming year, featuring seven new exhibits running from 2024-2025.

From Robert Frank’s personal photography scrapbook, to Vincent Van Gogh’s family portraits, the museum, which boasts a collection of over 500,000 works, is showcasing a range of different art forms made by a diverse collection of artists.

Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore, Oct. 13, 2024-Jan. 20, 2025

The MFA is exhibiting American painter Georgia O’Keeffe and British sculptor Henry Moore’s work “together in conversation” for the first time, using “compelling visual juxtapositions to explore their common ways of interpreting nature’s landscapes.”

The exhibit, organized by the San Diego Museum of Art, showcases about 90 works by Moore and 60 by O’Keeffe.

Power of the People: Art and Democracy, Oct. 26, 2024-Feb. 16, 2025

This exhibit, opening as the 2024 election unfolds and featuring 175 works, highlights the ways that art has shaped ideas about democracy throughout history, spanning from ancient Greece to present day.

Deep Waters: Four Artists and the Sea, Nov. 9, 2024-Nov. 9, 2025

This year-long exhibit weaves together artworks made by four artists — John Singleton Copley, J. M. W Turner, John Akomfrah, and Ayana V. Jackson — that each follow a “genealogical thread united by the sea.”

Huntington Avenue Entrance Commission: The Knowledge Keepers, Nov. 14, 2024

For the inaugural Huntington Avenue Entrance Commission, the MFA invited Alan Michelson to make artwork entitled The Knowledge Keepers for the two empty plinths outside the museum’s building.

Michelson, who sources his work from both Indigenous and Western cultures, drew from an Appeal to the Great Spirit, a sculpture by Cyrus Dallin, that has been at the center of the MFA’s entrance plaza since 1912.

Robert Frank: Mary’s Book, Dec. 21, 2024-June 22, 2025

This exhibition features the personal scrapbook, entitled Mary’s Book, that Robert Frank made for his first wife Mary Lockspeiser, consisting of 74 small photographs taken in Paris accompanied by Frank’s writing.

The book “reads like a lyrical poem and compelling personal photographic sequence.”

Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson, Feb. 8-June 22, 2025

The largest-ever exhibit featuring Roxbury-born John Wilson’s work showcases 110 works by the artist, exploring racial, social, and economic injustices through his artwork.

Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits, March 30-Sept. 7, 2025

Vincent Van Gogh’s portraits of a neighboring family he created during his stay in Arles in the South of France will be shown at the upcoming exhibit. About 20 works by Van Gogh will be show, including Postman Joseph Roulin (1888) and Lullaby: Madame Augustine Roulin Rocking a Cradle (La Berceuse) (1889).