Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Timothy Hyunsoo Lee’s lushly textured, golden-hued works speak to his lived experience as an immigrant, his queerness and complex family history, and his reverence for traditional materials and craft from his native South Korea. Here, he explores his interest in the ways time and experience can alter or obscure memories of childhood, especially for people who immigrated while young. Using one of the last photographs taken of his family posing together, he doubled it with a self-portrait and then translated it into a rich mosaic of gold leaf and treated Korean silk. A close-up look at the various mosaic-like pieces reveals image transfers of census figures about U.S. populations alongside small pictures of the artist’s current, chosen community. You can see more works by Lee in our exhibitions "Community Arts Initiative: Our Family Portrait" and "Hallyu! The Korean Wave." 🖼️: Timothy Hyunsoo Lee (American (born in Seoul, South Korea), 1990). "Gajok Sajin (Cometboy as a Sitter for a Family Portrait)" (2024). Inkjet, gold leaf, watercolor, and acrylic on paper and silk on canvas.

Happy Pride, Boston! ❤️ MFA staff, volunteers, friends and family are walking in today's parade, led by our LGBTQIA+ Employee Resource Group 🏳️🌈

Join us for Juneteenth! In partnership with Citizens, admission to the MFA—including access to “Hallyu! The Korean Wave”—is free for all Massachusetts residents on June 19! Doors open at 10 am. Explore the full schedule: http://ms.spr.ly/6046YoYBG

Who's ready for the NBA Finals? Go Boston Celtics! #DifferentHere © 2024 Chihuly Studio / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

We're excited to announce the Huntington Avenue Entrance Commission—a new annual series that invites artists to create site-specific works for our main entrance. Internationally recognized artist Alan Michelson—a Mohawk member of Six Nations of the Grand River, who was raised in Boston and attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University—will create the inaugural project. Michelson will produce monumental works, which will reside on the two empty plinths outside our historic building and form, in part, a response to Cyrus Dallin’s "Appeal to the Great Spirit" (1909), a sculpture that has occupied the center of the entrance plaza since 1912. The project, entitled "The Knowledge Keepers," will be unveiled on November 14: http://ms.spr.ly/6045YUzgc

"For most of my life, I haven’t felt Korean enough. Two years ago, a gnawing search for validation led me to a mail-in DNA kit. One hundred percent Korean, the results told me. Still, until recently I kept feeling the need to prove it." 📝 This month on our Art for This Moment blog, staff member Olga Khvan reflects on the significance of a hanbok in the MFA's collection, which is currently on view in "Hallyu! The Korean Wave." Read her full essay:

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P1Harmony killin' it with a visit to "Hallyu! The Korean Wave" ✨ We were thrilled to welcome KEEHO, THEO, INTAK, SOUL and JONGSEOB to the MFA following their concert at the Boch Center this week! The group enjoyed a tour of "Hallyu!" with exhibition curator Christina Yu Yu.

After leaving home for art school in London during the early 1960s, and spending subsequent years in Los Angeles—where he became famous for painting glamorous, backyard pools—David Hockney returned to Yorkshire, with its rolling hills and verdant vistas, in the late 1990s. Revisiting the lush countryside of his youth reinforced his connection to the landscape and delight in the ways a once-familiar view of home could evoke new beginnings for an artist. The work was recently installed in the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art as part of "Our Family Portrait," our 2024 Community Arts Initiative Artist Project led by Timothy Hyunsoo Lee: http://ms.spr.ly/6049YZoMV 🖼️: David Hockney (English, born in 1937), "Garrowby Hill" (1998), oil on canvas. © David Hockney

"I really wanted to highlight how we are all in different parts of Boston, yet we remain connected to the shared experience." 📰 Read more in Boston Globe Media about Timothy Hyunsoo Lee, the lead artist for this year's Community Arts Initiative Artist Project. The collaborative artwork he made with more than 150 students from across the city is now on view in our Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art.