October 16, 2002 – January 5, 2003

Episodes is comprised of two site-specific installations. Each suggests a different "episode" in the artist's response to the Museum collection and to Isabella Stewart Gardner's unusual requirement that the Museum galleries should be preserved exactly as she had arranged them "for the education and enjoyment of the public forever." Ward takes us on a metaphorical behind-the-scenes tour focusing on the objects as well as on the people who are the custodians of this unique and challenging enterprise.