America at 250

"America at 250" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston marks the United States' semiquincentennial by bringing together art from Indigenous and non-Indigenous makers across the Caribbean and North, South and Central America to question nationhood and which symbols a country chooses to celebrate. The exhibition opens June 19, 2026. One pairing sets a portrait of George Washington by Mohawk artist Alan Michelson, for whom Washington is remembered as "Town Destroyer," against Gilbert Stuart's unfinished 1796 portrait of the first president. Coinciding with the show, the MFA is unveiling a major reinstallation of its 18th-century Art of the Americas galleries, with more than 400 works that include long-unseen pieces and new acquisitions.