A remedy to that fact arrived, finally, this month with “Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson,” just opened at the Museum of Fine Arts, an at-last, first-ever showcase of Wilson’s ...

Roxbury artist John Wilson spent his decades-long career creating drawings, paintings and sculptures that explored what it meant to be human. Born in 1922 to Guyanese immigrants, his work was ...

On Feb. 8, the MFA unveiled ‘Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson,’ the largest-ever retrospective of the Roxbury native’s work On a chilly day in January 1986, Boston artist John ...

It didn’t seem like a difficult question: How would John Wilson describe “How to With John Wilson”? But after a long pause, the 37-year-old filmmaker chuckles sheepishly, defeated.