Michal Rovner's Untitled/Night, 2016 — a jackal with glowing eyes — on the Anne H. Fitzpatrick Facade of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Michal Rovner: Untitled/Night, 2016

Now showing28 July 2026 – 8 February 2027Free

A jackal with glowing eyes keeps watch from the Anne H. Fitzpatrick Facade, filmed with a night-vision camera near Rovner's home and evoking Anubis, guide of souls to the afterlife. Free to view outside.

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Michal Rovner could hear jackals at night near her farm in Kfar Shmuel, Israel, so she filmed them with night-vision cameras. One shadowy silhouette from that footage, a black-and-white still made in 2016, now stands guard on the Gardner's Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade.

Look below the jackal and you'll find the landscape it watches over is full of tiny human figures, which Rovner has likened to text moving on a page. Meeting the animal's gaze reminded her of Anubis, the jackal-headed Egyptian god who protected souls travelling to the afterlife.

It's a public work on the outside of the building, so there's no ticket to see it. Inside, the same artist's Esther Scrolls fills the Fenway Gallery until 18 January, covered by the $25 admission and free for everyone on Thursdays from 5 to 9pm. This is Rovner's first solo showing in Boston.

Look for

The jackal
Look for a single shadowy, black-and-white silhouette shot on a night-vision camera, set on the façade like a sentinel.
The tiny figures
Below the jackal, small human figures cross an unidentified landscape, which Rovner has likened to text moving on a page.