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Dates:Friday, September 6, 2024 - Friday, September 6, 2024
Hours:6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Ages:Adults
In/Outdoor:Indoor
Cost:$ see below
Category:Special Events
Looking to relax and have fun at the end of a long week?

Unwind with MFA First Fridays, an exciting evening of music, dancing, art making, and more on the first Friday of select months.

Celebrate the reopening of the Arts of Japan galleries and the exhibition “Tender Loving Care: Contemporary Art from the Collection” with art making, gallery talks, a signature cocktail created by the Koji Club, and music from our resident DJ Dayglow.

Spotlight Talks: Rei Kawakubo

6:45pm

Explore the sartorial signifiers in the exhibition “Tender Loving Care: Contemporary Art from the Collection” with fashion scholar Margot Rashba, PhD Candidate, Boston University and curator, Michelle Millar Fisher, Ronald C. and Anita L.

Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts

Spotlight Talks: From Matsushima to Boston

8pm

Arts of Japan Gallery, 280

Join Asako Katsura, Ishibashi Assistant Curator of Japanese Art, for a gallery talk that focuses on Ogata Kōrin's Waves at Matsushima (18th century).

Discover why Kōrin became a professional painter in his forties, what the portrayal of rough seas and shorelines with pine trees traditionally symbolizes in Japanese art, and why this folding screen connects her hometown and Boston.

Ticket Information

To order tickets by phone, call 1-800-440-6975 ($6 processing fee applies); to order in person, visit any MFA ticket desk.

Open to visitors 21+.

Valid ID with proof of age required for entry.

Accepted forms of identification for MFA First Friday entrance include:

Massachusetts Drivers License
Massachusetts Liquor ID
Massachusetts ID issued by the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles Drivers License from any US state Valid Passport (photocopies are not accepted)
Federal Identification (e.g. Military ID)

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Members/Free/Nonmembers: $27.00

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www.mfa.org/event/special-event/mfa-first-fridays

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465 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA, 02115 map
Phone: 617-267-9300

465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115

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