REIGNING BEAUTY, 2025

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Boston, MA
Boston Public Art Triennial
On View: June 17 - October 14, 2025

Inspired by Isabella's passion for plants and the loving care given to our “Living Collection” by the Museum’s horticulture team, Wu composed a collage of photographs of the Gardner’s flowers, transforming individual blossoms into a windswept shower blooming bright against dark storm clouds.

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Boston Public Art Triennial
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

This summer, violets, nasturtiums, and hydrangeas escape from the Gardner’s greenhouses and rain down the Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade in a site-specific installation by Artist-in-Residence Yu-Wen Wu. Reigning Beauty is part of this summer’s inaugural Boston Public Art Triennial.