Fine Arts

Fitz Henry Lane - View of Gloucester Harbor

Art & Culture / Fine Arts

Fidelity's Peter Lynch '65 donates more than $20 million in art to BC

December 09, 2021

The collection gifted to the McMullen Museum includes renowned works from Picasso, Homer, Sargent, Cassatt, and Heade, among others.

Seamus Connolly

Art & Culture / Music

Lifetime achievement honors

March 16, 2020

10-time All-Ireland champion fiddler Seamus Connolly helped establish BC as a major center of Gaelic music.

Simon Dinnerstein’s ‘Fulbright Triptych’

Art & Culture / Fine Arts

'Strange, endearing, endlessly absorbing'

November 01, 2019

Now on view at the McMullen Museum, Simon Dinnerstein’s ‘Fulbright Triptych’ is a rich, realistic monument to family life, according to the Boston Globe.

Nancy Netzer

Art & Culture / Fine Arts

McMullen directorship endowed

May 10, 2019

Nancy Netzer is named the inaugural Robert L. and Judith T. Winston Director of the McMullen Museum of Art.

Arts Festival button

Art & Culture / Fine Arts

Celebrating the arts

April 25, 2019

BC Arts Festival highlights creative work from across campus; award-winning alumni poet C. Dale Young is this year's guest honoree.

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Fitz Henry Lane - View of Gloucester Harbor

Art & Culture / Fine Arts

Fidelity's Peter Lynch '65 donates more than $20 million in art to BC

December 09, 2021

The collection gifted to the McMullen Museum includes renowned works from Picasso, Homer, Sargent, Cassatt, and Heade, among others.

McMullen Museum of Art

Art & Culture / Fine Arts

McMullen from Home

July 11, 2020

A host of virtual opportunities to explore, enjoy, and learn from BC's McMullen Museum of Art.

Shiraz Bayjoo, 'Fig. 7' (Ocean Miniatures series)

Art & Culture / Fine Arts

'Indian Ocean Currents'

January 29, 2020

The McMullen Museum presents an exploration of climate change by six leading artists.

William Trost Richards (1833–1905), The League Long Breakers Thundering on the Reef, 1887. Oil on canvas, 28.2 x 44.1 in., Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Alice C. Crowell, 32.140.

Art & Culture / Fine Arts

New at the McMullen

September 10, 2019

Four innovative, exclusive exhibitions at BC's McMullen Museum of Art this fall.

Eagle, c. 1890s; attributed to Suzuki Chōkichi (1848–1919). Bronze, gold, shakudō, c. 75 x 67 x 49 in., McMullen Museum of Art

Art & Culture / Fine Arts

'Eaglemania'

February 07, 2019

Exhibition of Japanese art celebrates and contextualizes BC’s iconic 'golden eagle.' Also on view: 'Cuenca: City of Spanish Abstraction.'

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Eagle closeup

Art & Culture / Fine Arts

The return of the eagle

March 25, 2019

VIDEO: A masterpiece is restored to the Heights.

From the 'Nature's Mirror' exhibition at the McMullen Museum

Art & Culture / Fine Arts

Art and science

November 30, 2017

In a new podcast, BC environmental studies profs discuss 'Nature's Mirror,' on view at the McMullen Museum.

BC dance troupe Fuego del Corazón performs at event

Art & Culture / Fine Arts

A Boston College Minute

February 07, 2017

The McMullen's 'Art After Dark' gives students a first look—to a Latin beat—at the work of Cuban artist Rafael Soriano.

Stained glass image from McMullen Museum exhibit

Art & Culture / Fine Arts

Museum quality

March 30, 2016

Vera Kreilkamp, co-curator of 'Making It Irish' at the McMullen, describes the hunt for rare pieces—and why it matters.

Fitz Henry Lane - View of Gloucester Harbor

Art & Culture / Fine Arts

Fidelity's Peter Lynch '65 donates more than $20 million in art to BC

December 09, 2021

The collection gifted to the McMullen Museum includes renowned works from Picasso, Homer, Sargent, Cassatt, and Heade, among others.

Mujer con gallo (Mujer y gallo) | Woman with Rooster (Woman and Rooster), 1941 oil on canvas | óleo sobre lienzo, 32 ✕ 26″ Col. Nercys & Ramón Cernuda © Fundación Mariano Rodríguez

Art & Culture / Fine Arts

Mariano at the McMullen

September 06, 2021

BC's McMullen Museum of Art presents the first major U.S. exhibition on Cuban modernist painter Mariano Rodríguez.

Shiraz Bayjoo, 'Fig. 7' (Ocean Miniatures series)

Art & Culture / Fine Arts

'Indian Ocean Currents'

January 29, 2020

The McMullen Museum presents an exploration of climate change by six leading artists.

William Trost Richards (1833–1905), The League Long Breakers Thundering on the Reef, 1887. Oil on canvas, 28.2 x 44.1 in., Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Alice C. Crowell, 32.140.

Art & Culture / Fine Arts

New at the McMullen

September 10, 2019

Four innovative, exclusive exhibitions at BC's McMullen Museum of Art this fall.

Eagle, c. 1890s; attributed to Suzuki Chōkichi (1848–1919). Bronze, gold, shakudō, c. 75 x 67 x 49 in., McMullen Museum of Art

Art & Culture / Fine Arts

'Eaglemania'

February 07, 2019

Exhibition of Japanese art celebrates and contextualizes BC’s iconic 'golden eagle.' Also on view: 'Cuenca: City of Spanish Abstraction.'

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