Laura Weinstein is Ananda Coomaraswamy Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2011, with a dissertation on the art of India’s Deccan plateau, focusing on illustrated manuscripts from the sultanate of Golconda. Since her arrival at the MFA in 2009, she has lead the reinstallation of the Museum’s South Asian, Southeast Asian and Islamic art collections and has curated major exhibitions including “Ink, Silk & Gold: Islamic Art from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,” “Megacities Asia,” and “Divine Color: Hindu Prints from Modern Bengal.”
Current Projects:
Weinstein collaborates with the team members of the Harvard University Mapping Color in History project, most recently by curating two installations of Indian paintings on the theme of color in collaboration with Dr. Jinah Kim. She is engaged in researching and improving the cataloging and accessibility of the MFA’s important collections of South Asian, Southeast Asian and Islamic art.
Publications:
Laura Weinstein with Mark Baron, Divine Color: Hindu Prints from Modern Bengal. Boston: MFA Publications, 2026
Laura Weinstein, “Meaning in the Margins: Kannada Captions in a Deccani Sindbadnama.” In Old Stacks, New Leaves: The Arts the Book in South Asia, edited by Sonal Khullar, 92-118. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2023.
