HOWLAND — One doesn’t need a telescope to view Medici Museum of Art’s “Cosmic Galaxy.” Anyone driving past the museum on East Market Street can see it.

New York artist Abby Modell and a five-person team arrived at the museum late Tuesday morning to install the work in the glass-walled gallery facing the thoroughfare.

Katelyn Amendolara-Russo, executive director of Medici, said she connected with Modell through sculptor Carole Feuerman, who’s exhibited her own work at Medici and donated the 6-foot-tall, one-ton sculpture “Poseidon” that’s on display on Medici’s front lawn.

Feuerman also co-curated the current exhibition “ZODIAC: The Mysterious Power of the Creative,” which runs through Jan. 11, 2026, at Medici.

“She (Modell) came out at the end of July and installed a beautiful piece ti

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