America at 250: A French Lens on Art at the MFA

When:
Thursday, Sep 24, 2026 2:30p -
4:30p

Where:
French Library / Alliance Française of Boston & Cambridge
53 Marlborough St.
Boston, MA 02116

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Admission:
$22 members $28 Non-members

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Categories:
History

Event website:
https://frenchlibrary.org/events/mfa-250-french-isabelle-slotine-sept-2026/

As the United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding, join us for an exclusive guided visit in French of the Museum of Fine Arts' newly reimagined Art of the Americas galleries with Isabelle Slotine, an MFA guide and former cultural journalist.


Offering a distinctive French perspective, Isabelle will guide us through the MFA's exceptional collection of American art from the Age of Revolutions. Drawing connections between France and the emerging United States, she will explore how artists such as John Singleton Copley and Gilbert Stuart captured the ideals, ambitions, and contradictions of a nation in the making.


Along the way, we will consider how artists shape history as much as they record it, revealing the stories that have been celebrated, and how today's curators are reinterpreting them 250 years later.


Following the tour, participants are warmly invited to continue the conversation over coffee at the museum café.


Please be ready at the meeting point at 2:15 p.m. so the tour can begin promptly at 2:30 p.m.


Meeting point: Inside the MFA, next to the Sharf Visitor Center desk.

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