Vibrant shows fill our three exhibition spaces and change every Fall, Winter, and Summer. There is always something new to see at the Gardner!
The Gardner Museum offers new special exhibitions each season. Schedules are subject to change.
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Fall 2025 Exhibitions
The crossroads of humanity and holiness meet in the works of lifelong Bostonian Allan Rohan Crite (1910–2007), who will at long last be at the center of an exhibition in a major Boston museum. Presented in collaboration with the Boston Athenaeum, Allan Rohan Crite: Urban Glory will raise questions of whose legacy is preserved and what stories a metropolis reveals—and pay homage to a seminal African American artist whose work celebrated, recorded, and spoke to Boston’s Black community.
Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade
Robert T. Freeman: Allan Crite - American Griot, 2025
October 23, 2025 – February 10, 2026
Image Credits:
Innsbruck Court Glassworks (active Innsbruck, 1570-1591), Black Glass Madonna, 1570-1591. Lampworked and pressed glass on wood mount, 52.5 x 28.8 cm (20 11/16 x 11 5/16 in.) Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Allan Rohan Crite (American, 1910–2007), School's Out, 1936. Oil on canvas, 76.9 x 91.8 cm (30 1/4 x 36 1/8 in.) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from General Services Administration. Courtesy of the Allan Rohan Crite Research Institute and Library
Robert T. Freeman: Allan Crite - American Griot, 2025 [rendering] © Robert T. Freeman. Image courtesy of Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Winter/Spring 2026 Exhibitions
Imagine you could be a different version of yourself. What parts of your identity might you reinvent? This winter/spring, three exhibitions explore the concept of persona and what its creation and depiction may reveal about an artist, their society, and ourselves.
Image Credits:
Otto Rosenheim (German, 1871–1955), Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1906. Gelatin silver print, 20.3 x 25.4 cm (8 x 10 in.) Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (P33w35)
Jamie Diamond: Monstra Te Esse Matrem, 2026 [rendering] © Jamie Diamond. Image courtesy of Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Past Exhibitions
Take a look back at our past exhibitions.
