A Native American shrine from 2025, a menagerie of needlework samples from 18th-century New England, and casta paintings from colonial Mexico stand only paces away from each other in a new exhibition in the Art of the Americas Wing of the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston. Unveiled during the museum’s annual Juneteenth open house, Art of the Americas: 1700–1800 marks the first reinstallation in the wing’s ground-level galleries. The revamped …