Isabella Stewart Gardner goes
Psychedelic
JOANNE ROBINSON
So what is that big spiral doing on the front of the Gardner Museum ? Early in the process of making the Fenway Deity a reality , an application submitted to the Boston Landmarks Commission prompted these comments in the Boston Herald : Hip-hop stars may envy the giant gold chain with a psychedelic spiral-patterned pendant that the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum wants to hang from its faux Venetian front facade . But museum officials say the enormous “ Fenway Deity ” inflatable art installation created by New York landscape architect Ken Smith will protect the Fens from bad spirits . ( http :// bit . ly / GardnerArticle )
This was good press for the Gardner , where landscape programs strive to engage local and global audiences in garden arts and design . Fenway Deity animates the Fenway façade , one of the most famous views of the Museum , and invites reflection on art in our urban landscape .
Charles Waldheim , Honorary ASLA , and Ruettgers Curator of Landscape , initiated landscape installations in 2013 at the Gardner Museum . The first installation , Tiny Taxonomy designed by Rosetta Sarah Elkin , highlighted the delicate beauty of mountain wildflowers and
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