BOSTON— For winter 2008, Museums magazine has prepared this selection of some of the best shows in Boston. For other museum exhibitions on the Eastern Seaboard, read Top 5 Philadelphia, and don't miss Top 5 L.A., Top 10 U.S.A., Top 5 London, and Top 10 Europe for the best of the best across the country and across the Atlantic.

1. Futurism's and Cubism’s impacts on British modernist printmaking are on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in “Rhythms of Modern Life.” Lithographs, etchings, woodcuts, and linocuts from the beginning of World War I to the beginning of World War II depict everything from the first “modern” war to extreme geometric abstractions to the lively Jazz age. From January 30 through June 1.

2. This first museum survey of works by Belgian artist David Claerbout blurs the line between still and moving images, creating a photography of movement. Each pixelated fragment of an analog image is reworked to form new digital compositions that challenge our perception of space and time. See "David Claerbout" at the MIT List Visual Arts Center from February 8 through April 6.

3. Some of the rarest and finest examples of Americana made or used between 1640 and 1860 journey from Delaware’s Winterthur Museum—Henry Francis du Pont’s family estate, which was opened to the public in 1951—for "An American Vision," through April 6 at the Worcester Art Museum.

4. The Peabody Essex Museum presents striking images from Dutch-born photographer Hans Neleman of moko, or Maori tattoos. The centuries-old practice—through its expressions of personal, social, and tribal identities—offers insights about New Zealand’s indigenous people. Beautiful and dignified, the tattoos testify to the rich heritage the Maori are working to reclaim. “The Art of Maori Tattoo,” from February 23,2008, through February 1, 2009.

5. As a historian, professor, and purveyor of Chinese art, Chutsing Li has amassed an unrivaled personal collection of modern and contemporary Chinese ink paintings. More than 60 of them from a previously neglected but dynamic period—the mid- to late 20th century—are now on view at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum in “A Tradition Redefined,” through January 27.

"Top 5 Boston" comes to ARTINFO from the Winter 2008 issue of Museums magazine.