museum of fine arts boston

For nearly a decade in the 1960s and ’70s, photographer Stephen Shames captured the Black Panther Party, recording the critical community work and activism of the group. In “Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party,” at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston through June 24, these photographs highlight the female contingent of the party, which made up more than 65% of its members.

A more reliable celebration of spring was indoors, at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, where the museum’s 42nd annual Art in Bloom brought floral magic to works of art throughout the museum from April 28 to April 30.