Featured Events in Boston in March 2025 (May Updated)

Through assemblage and juxtaposition, Troy Montes Michie (b. 1985) creates work centering the Black male body and considers how it has historically been marginalized, fetishized, idealized, and criminalized. Often in dialogue with the canon of collage, Michie investigates society’s understanding of race, gender, sexuality, and other fields of identity and power.

Through assemblage and juxtaposition, Troy Montes Michie (b. 1985) creates work centering the Black male body and considers how it has historically been marginalized, fetishized, idealized, and criminalized. Often in dialogue with the canon of collage, Michie investigates society’s understanding of race, gender, sexuality, and other fields of identity and power.

“Utopia, Dystopia” presents two single-channel videos from the MFA collection by Tony Cokes (b. 1956) and Oscar Muñoz (b. 1951). Created in the last decade, the films grapple with the duality of utopia and dystopia, expressing the artists’ senses of how idealistic visions of society often collide with harsh realities. Utopian dreams can promise a future without oppression and celebrate freedom of expression, yet achieving these ideals frequently comes into conflict with underlying dystopian truths such as systems of control, state surveillance, and deep inequality.

“Utopia, Dystopia” presents two single-channel videos from the MFA collection by Tony Cokes (b. 1956) and Oscar Muñoz (b. 1951). Created in the last decade, the films grapple with the duality of utopia and dystopia, expressing the artists’ senses of how idealistic visions of society often collide with harsh realities. Utopian dreams can promise a future without oppression and celebrate freedom of expression, yet achieving these ideals frequently comes into conflict with underlying dystopian truths such as systems of control, state surveillance, and deep inequality.

“Utopia, Dystopia” presents two single-channel videos from the MFA collection by Tony Cokes (b. 1956) and Oscar Muñoz (b. 1951). Created in the last decade, the films grapple with the duality of utopia and dystopia, expressing the artists’ senses of how idealistic visions of society often collide with harsh realities. Utopian dreams can promise a future without oppression and celebrate freedom of expression, yet achieving these ideals frequently comes into conflict with underlying dystopian truths such as systems of control, state surveillance, and deep inequality.

Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) once wrote, “What I’m most passionate about…is the portrait, the modern portrait.” This passion flourished between 1888 and ’89 when, during his stay in Arles, in the South of France, the artist created a number of portraits of a neighboring family—the postman Joseph Roulin; his wife, Augustine; and their three children: Armand, Camille, and Marcelle. Van Gogh’s tender relationship with the postman and his family, and his groundbreaking portrayals of them, are at the heart of this exhibition, which is the first dedicated to the Roulin portraits and the deep bonds of friendship between the artist and this family.

Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) once wrote, “What I’m most passionate about…is the portrait, the modern portrait.” This passion flourished between 1888 and ’89 when, during his stay in Arles, in the South of France, the artist created a number of portraits of a neighboring family—the postman Joseph Roulin; his wife, Augustine; and their three children: Armand, Camille, and Marcelle. Van Gogh’s tender relationship with the postman and his family, and his groundbreaking portrayals of them, are at the heart of this exhibition, which is the first dedicated to the Roulin portraits and the deep bonds of friendship between the artist and this family.

Generations of artists have explored the beauties and terrors of the ocean, reflecting on the experiences of those who have lived and lost their lives among the waves. Weaving together artworks by four artists made over centuries and across the Atlantic, this exhibition follows a genealogical thread united by the sea. Echoes of John Singleton Copley’s Watson and the Shark (1778) reverberate in J. M. W Turner’s 1840 Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On), which itself has influenced art created in the 21st century.

Although Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) is today perhaps the most famous Dutch artist of all, in his own time he was relatively little known, especially when compared to artists of the Hague School. This group, named for the city where many of its members trained and worked, was comprised of those who had different styles but shared a devotion to the depiction of everyday life, looking to the Dutch countryside for their subjects and themes. The Hague School artists achieved international fame, and in the early 1900s US collectors and museums—including the MFA—eagerly sought their works. But over the decades the group’s fame faded.

Visitors embark on an interactive tour of the Titanic with incredible re-creations of the Ship’s interior and exterior. Visitors receive a replica boarding pass, assume the role of a passenger, and follow a chronological journey through life on Titanic. Walk the halls, explore the galleries, peer into cabins, and meet passengers and crew throughout the voyage. The 15,000-square-foot Exhibition features replica interior rooms and a full-scale re-creation of the Grand Staircase. Visitors will be able to view authentic artifacts, respectfully recovered from two and a half miles below the surface of the North Atlantic, which tell the real story behind Titanic’s journey from construction to eventual recovery. The genuine artifacts on display offer emotional connections to the forever-altered lives of those who were on board Titanic.

Born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, John Wilson (1922–2015) is one of Boston’s most esteemed artists. His work, made over the span of 60 years, continues to resonate with the persistent realities of disenfranchisement, racial prejudice, and social injustice.“Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson” is the largest-ever exhibition of Wilson’s work, co-organized by the MFA and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Featuring approximately 110 works by the artist in a wide range of media—prints, drawings, paintings, sculpture, and illustrated books—the exhibition explores the many ways Wilson called attention to racial, social, and economic injustices through his art. Challenging both biases and omissions, Wilson explored subjects that include anti-Black violence, the civil rights movement, labor, and family life—with a particular focus on fatherhood. Portraits like Julie and Becky (1956–78) and his Young Americans suite of life-size portraits (about 1972–75) celebrate the essential humanity of Wilson’s family and friends, while other works like Deliver Us from Evil (1943) and The Trial (1951) depict the heinous impacts of systemic prejudice and racism. Wilson’s work speaks to shared experiences, while also displaying his personal search for identity as an artist, Black man, parent, and American.

Multi-disciplinary Fabiola Jean-Louis’s captivating exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum invites visitors on a journey through the ancient and eternal, earthly and divine, personal and political. On view from February 27 – May 25, 2025, Waters of the Abyss: An Intersection of Spirit and Freedom by Fabiola Jean-Louis features a large amount of original commissions from the Haitian artist, crafted from the stunningly intricate marriage of paper pulp, mineral stones, shells, metals, glass, and more. Invoking the sanctity of Vodou and its role in Haitian liberation, these works will transform the Museum’s three rotating exhibition spaces, Hostetter Gallery; Fenway Gallery; and the Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade, into a map of personal histories, a site of communion, and a spiritual portal.

Since arriving in America from England 250 years ago, the Shakers — a Christian sect of pacifists — have occupied a unique place in the American national identity. Also known as the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, the Shakers ascribe to values of communal living, celibacy, shared property, and gender and racial equality, and they are widely recognized for their simple living, architecture, music, and furniture. The Shakers have captured the imagination of countless artists since at least the early twentieth century, when ideas about perfection, elegance, and practicality associated with Shaker life and material culture took hold. These ideas entered more strongly into the American consciousness following a string of influential exhibitions and books, many of them organized and authored by collectors of Shaker furniture.

A dynamic collaboration between curatorial and conservation experts at the Harvard Art Museums, Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking offers rare insight into the Norwegian artist’s innovative techniques and the recurring themes across his paintings, woodcuts, lithographs, etchings, and combination prints. Thanks to a transformational gift from the collection of Philip A. and Lynn G. Straus, the Harvard Art Museums house one of the largest and most significant collections of artwork by Munch in the United States, and the exhibition showcases roughly 70 works, including key loans from the Munch Museum in Oslo.

Join Japan Society of Boston and the Celebrity Series of Boston on March 8th at the Boston Latin School for a unique and exciting lecture and demonstration by Kodō, the award-winning Japanese Taiko Ensemble. At this session, members of Kodō will introduce an in-depth story behind their artistry and musicality, as well as diving deeper into one particular performer, Moe Niiyama, as she talks about her taiko journey for the first time in the United States. The session will also have musical elements that will engage with the audience rhythmically, and there's no substitute for the feeling of the in-person experience. Be there when they fill the Boston Latin School with their propulsive music and movement! Event is free, but registration is required. https://www.japansocietyboston.org/events/lecture-and-demonstration-kodo Information Source: Japan Society of Boston | eventbrite

Experience the extraordinary at the Dermot Kennedy Presents MISNEACH Festival in Boston. Taking place on March 18, 2025, at the Brighton Music Hall presented by Citizens, this event promises a captivating blend of music and artistry. Join us for an unforgettable evening filled with soul-stirring performances in the heart of the city. Mark your calendars and secure your tickets for a night to remember at this unique festival.

Comprising nine works by three generations of female artists from the Americas, “Tha Sun Will Set: Contemporary Abstraction and the Body” draws from the MFA’s collection to trace a lineage of abstract painting spanning seven decades. The exhibition borrows its title from Christina Quarles’s In 24 Days Tha Sun’ll Set at 7pm (2022), which takes joyful liberty with the traditions of abstraction by experimenting with various painting techniques and ways of depicting figures in a landscape. Quarles’s painting arrived at the MFA in 2023, as part of an initiative to expand the Museum’s works by women, and is on view here for the first time. Also making their public debuts are Marcia Hafif’s Pop-inspired bodily abstraction 153. (1967) and Rose B. Simpson’s early earthenware piece Red (2012).

Comprising nine works by three generations of female artists from the Americas, “Tha Sun Will Set: Contemporary Abstraction and the Body” draws from the MFA’s collection to trace a lineage of abstract painting spanning seven decades. The exhibition borrows its title from Christina Quarles’s In 24 Days Tha Sun’ll Set at 7pm (2022), which takes joyful liberty with the traditions of abstraction by experimenting with various painting techniques and ways of depicting figures in a landscape. Quarles’s painting arrived at the MFA in 2023, as part of an initiative to expand the Museum’s works by women, and is on view here for the first time. Also making their public debuts are Marcia Hafif’s Pop-inspired bodily abstraction 153. (1967) and Rose B. Simpson’s early earthenware piece Red (2012).

This exhibition brings together work from emerging artists that explores the different aspects of personhood—their own and those of others. The combined work examines the concept of the self: the multifaceted nature of personal identity, the composition of cultures and contexts, and the sum of personal trials and triumphs.

Experience the electrifying performance of Pepper (18+) in Boston at the renowned Paradise Rock Club presented by Citizens. The event is scheduled for March 3, 2025, at 967 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215. Get ready to be immersed in a night of high-energy music and unforgettable vibes at this must-see concert. Don't miss out on this opportunity to witness Pepper's exceptional talent live on stage.

The Anton Paar 5k Run/Walk is back for Pittcon 2025 in Boston!Join us at at the Leader Bank Pavilion on Tuesday, March 4, 2025 to walk or run (or a bit of both!) 5k for a great cause. The race will begin at 7am, so you will have plenty of time to enjoy the event and then have a great day at Pittcon 2025. This year, we will be donating 100% of proceeds to supporting a local Boston charity. We can't wait to be back at Pittcon, and we can't wait to see you at the 2025 Anton Paar 5k! Please read below for more details. EVENT DETAILS:When? Tuesday, March 4, 2025 at 7am Where? Leader Bank Pavilion, 290 Northern Ave Boston, MA 02210 United States The cost to participate in the 2025 Anton Paar 5k is $35, and includes a custom bib and a commemorative race shirt. All proceeds will be donated. Race packet pickup will be near the main registration area at Pittcon 2025 - Level 1, North Lobby on Monday, March 3, 2025, from 8am until 3pm. Questions? Email Mary Franck at mary.franck@anton-paar.com While you're at Pittcon 2025, stop by Booth 2207 to check out Anton Paar's newest instrumentation! In the meantime, register to reserve your spot and get ready for a scenic morning run! All participates must fill out a wavier before participating in the run. To do so, please visit https://waiver.smartwaiver.com/w/61785b999a6c9/web/ Information Source: Anton Paar USA | eventbrite

Join us for a fascinating talk with postcard expert and collector Kathy Alpert, as she delves into the history and significance of postcards as both art and historical artifacts. With a collection of nearly 50,000 postcards, primarily from the early 20th century, Kathy will showcase highlights from her impressive archive and discuss what makes these small treasures so valuable to our understanding of the past. Guests will also have the opportunity to browse and explore The West End Museum’s collection of historic Boston and West End postcards, offering a local perspective on this rich visual tradition. About Kathy Kathryn S. Alpert (Kathy) is a writer who collects, organizes and interprets postcards and ephemera from the first half of the 20th century. In 2001, she introduced the greeting card world to vintage postcards through PostMark Press’s authentic reproductions of public domain images. She then used postcard art to create original designs and licensed them for use on consumer products. More recently, she has been advocating for the historical importance of postcards as artifacts worthy of being accessioned into research and educational institutions. You can also join Kathy on March 9th, 10am-3pm at the Spellman Museum of Stamps & Postal History for the New England Postcard Club’s Second Annual Postcard Show. Her website is HERE. This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Information Source: The West End Museum | eventbrite

Presented by Jigsaw Dating x Puttshack Limited tickets available! Please arrive on time and find the Jigsaw host stand to check in. Check in will close 45 minutes after the start time. Enjoy: Mixer-style mingling with local singles, everyone in our party is looking for the same thingFree mini golf play, included with your ticket!Signature mini golf themed bingo activity (+ prizes for the first 5 to get BINGO)Custom conversation cards to help you break the iceDedicated host on site to greet + check you inComplimentary welcome drink (for Jigsaw app members only!)Tickets are nonrefundable. Must be single and 21+ with valid ID. NAME PROVIDED MUST MATCH ID. Contact events@jigsaw.co for questions. Jigsaw member perks: FREE monthly members-only ticket to any singles event across the country, complimentary welcome drink, skip the line add on, exclusive ticket protection (event credits), and so much more! Information Source: Jigsaw® Dating | eventbrite

Enjoy the atmosphere and fabulous cuisine of Maggiano's Little Italy while trying to solve a mystery! The Family Style Menu for the evening will include: Appetizers: Crispy Zucchini Fritte & Tomato Bruschetta Salads: Italian Chopped Salad Pastas: Gnocchi with Vodka Sauce & Our Famous Rigatoni D Entrees: Chicken Parmesan & Salmon with Lemon & Herbs Desserts: Tiramisu & New York Style Cheese Cake Soft Drinks, Iced and Hot Tea, and Coffee Included. Cash bar will be available for alcoholic beverage purchases. Cash only. Price includes tax and service. Please note dietary restrictions, allergies, and/or seating requests when purchasing your tickets on the order form. You may contact the sales team at boston.banquet@maggianos.com or 617-542-0456 with any other questions. Check in begins 30 minutes prior to event start time. Dress code is casual. For guests ages 12 years old and above. Refunds can be processed up to 48 hours prior to show time. We seat a maximum of 10 guests per table. Groups of less than 10 may be seated with other guests Information Source: Maggiano's Little Italy- Boston | eventbrite

Experience the magic of the FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH Orchestra World Tour as it arrives in Boston on March 8, 2025, at the prestigious Boch Center Wang Theatre. Immerse yourself in the iconic music and captivating visuals of this beloved video game series, brought to life by a talented orchestra. Join fans from around the world at this unforgettable event located at 270 Tremont Street, Boston, MA, 02116. Don't miss this opportunity to witness the breathtaking reimagining of the timeless classic.

The Boston Celtics, established in 1946 and based in Boston, USA, play their home games at TD Garden. The Celtics have won the NBA Championship 18 times, making them the team with the most titles in the league, including an eight-year championship streak from 1957 to 1969. Current key players include Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. The Oklahoma City Thunder, established in 1967 as the Seattle SuperSonics and based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, play their home games at Paycom Center. The Thunder have won the NBA Championship once (1979 as the SuperSonics). Current key players include Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.

Don't miss out on the upcoming event "This Wild Life" in Boston at the Brighton Music Hall presented by Citizens. The event will take place on March 13, 2025, at 158 Brighton Avenue, Boston, MA, 02134. This is a must-attend event for fans of This Wild Life, as they bring their unique sound and energy to the stage. Get ready for a memorable evening filled with great music and a fantastic atmosphere. Mark your calendars and secure your tickets for This Wild Life in Boston.

Mark your calendars for a captivating performance by K.Flay at Paradise Rock Club presented by Citizens in Boston on March 14, 2025. Don't miss the opportunity to experience the unique blend of alternative rock, hip hop, and electronic music that has earned K.Flay critical acclaim. With her distinctive sound and powerful lyrics, this is a show that music enthusiasts in Boston won't want to overlook. Secure your tickets now to witness an unforgettable evening of live music at 967 Commonwealth Avenue.

Disturbed is set to embark on their highly anticipated The Sickness 25th Anniversary Tour, stopping in Boston at the iconic TD Garden. The event will take place on March 14, 2025, at 100 Legends Way, Boston, MA, 02114. Fans can expect an unforgettable night filled with powerful performances and memorable moments as the band celebrates a quarter-century since the release of their groundbreaking album, "The Sickness." Don't miss this opportunity to witness a legendary band in a legendary venue.