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To Do Today: Summer Exhibitions at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Highlight LGBTQIA+ Photography

To Do Today: Summer Exhibitions at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Highlight LGBTQIA+ Photography

Three shows explore how portrait photographs by artists from NYC, Boston, and Dallas capture LGBTQIA+ communities

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To Do Today: Summer Exhibitions at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Highlight LGBTQIA+ Photography

Three shows explore how portrait photographs by artists from NYC, Boston, and Dallas capture LGBTQIA+ communities

August 26, 2024
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What?

Three summer exhibitions at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: On Christopher Street: Transgender Portraits by Mark Seliger, Portraits From Boston, With Love, and Possession of A Recalcitrant Dream, 2024.

When?

On Christopher Street and Portraits From Boston are on view through September 8; A Recalcitrant Dream will remain open until October 1. View museum hours here.

Where?

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 25 Evans Way, Boston.

How much?

Admission is free for BU students, $20 for adults, $13 for students with a valid ID, $18 for seniors (65-plus), and free for children under 18 (though they still require a ticket). Tickets can be purchased upon entry, but it's best to buy them online, as tickets come with a designated entry time.

Why should I go?

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum hosts an outstanding collection of European, Asian, and American art, displayed in a 15th century-style Venetian palace built by Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924), a prominent Boston socialite, philanthropist, and art collector. Gardner instructed that upon her death her personal collection of approximately 2,500 works of art be made available "for the education and enjoyment of the public forever." Since the museum opened in 1903, it has been one of Boston's most important cultural landmarks, drawing roughly 200,000 visitors a year from around the globe.

The museum made international headlines in 1990 when 13 works of art, valued at approximately $500 million, were stolen. The infamous robbery has yet to be solved.

In addition to its permanent collection, which includes paintings by John Singer Sargent, Johannes Vermeer, Henri Matisse, and Titian, the museum plays host to a rotating collection of temporary exhibitions. This summer, the museum is presenting three interconnected photography shows that together "explore how photographs by artists from New York City, Boston, and Dallas reflect and refract multifaceted LGBTQIA+ experiences," across three galleries, including the Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade outside the Museum.

The three exhibitions-On Christopher Street: Transgender Portraits by Mark Seliger, Possession of A Recalcitrant Dream, 2024, and Portraits From Boston, With Love-include, respectively, portraits of members of New York City's trans community, a photo collage by Hakeem Adewumi (a former artist-in-residence at the museum), and portraits by three Boston photographers. Together, the exhibitions highlight the camera's ability to capture the beauty and varied experiences of the LGBTQIA+ community.

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