Exhibitions

This summer, imagination takes root at the Gardner Museum in a lush, multisensory exploration of gardens as sites of creativity and connection. Step into the Hostetter Gallery and be transported to a playful space of wonder with Ming Fay: Edge of the Garden, which features large-scale sculptures that challenge our conception of gardens as natural spaces. In the Fenway Gallery, dig into the roots of Isabella Stewart Gardner’s cross-pollination of art and horticulture in Flowers for Isabella. Just steps away, artist Lee Mingwei’s soundscape Small Conversation fills the Museum Courtyard with the melodies of crickets, cicadas, and frogs. And above our own gardens on the Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade, Yu-Wen Wu pays homage to the fleeting beauty of nature with Reigning Beauty— also featured as a part of this summer’s inaugural Boston Public Art Triennial 2025.

The crossroads of humanity and holiness meet in the works of lifelong Bostonian Allan Rohan Crite (1910–2007), whose works 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. 

This exhibition, presented in Hostetter Gallery, will be accompanied by: 
Visions of Black Madonnas | Fenway Gallery 
Robert Freeman: Allan Crite - American Griot, 2025 | Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade