ARTISTS
2025
Fourteen exhibitions across New England that challenge, unsettle, and invite new ways of seeing.
Imagination takes root at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in a suite of exhibitions that explore gardens as sites of connection, creativity, and memory, on view through September 21, 2025.
The four-part docuseries聽This Is a Robbery: The World鈥檚 Biggest Art Heist聽(available on Netflix!) tells the story of the聽notorious event that took place over 30 years ago in the middle of the night on St. Patrick鈥檚 Day.
Fabiola Jean-Louis鈥檚 captivating exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum invites visitors on a journey through the ancient and eternal, earthly and divine, personal and political.
Fabiola Jean-Louis鈥檚 captivating exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum invites visitors on a journey through the ancient and eternal, earthly and divine, personal and political.
From $200m to upwards of $1bn, the estimated value of the 13 works stolen in Boston on 18 March 1990 has varied in the decades since.
Thirty-five years after a pair of thieves dressed as policemen cut Rembrandt van Rijn鈥檚 鈥淐hrist in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee鈥� from its frame and stole 12 other artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
From a study of bolo ties to a performance art retrospective, these are the shows we鈥檙e most excited to catch as winter turns to spring.
2024
An exhibition at Boston鈥檚 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum focuses on the French painter and his unconventional familial relationships, including those with his parents, his wife and her son.
The blockbuster movement鈥檚 sesquicentennial barely registered at US museums, a sign of a culture shift.
脡douard Manet painted the young boy L茅on over and over. In a terrific exhibition about Manet鈥檚 enigmatic family life, everything is transfixing and nothing adds up.
Not every art institution could, or should, be everything to everyone.
In Boston's Fenway neighborhood, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has made a big move. It bought a $22.8 million, 62-unit apartment building next to its new wing designed by Renzo Piano.
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston has purchased a 62-unit apartment building for $22.8 million, securing the only non-museum property on the block adjacent to its new wing.
With portraits the artist made of the people closest to him, the exhibition tunes into the details of his private life.