Is Boston still the Athens of America
and the hub of the solar system, as 19th-c Bostonians insisted?
Perhaps not, but Boston—and Cambridge
across the Charles River—are still hubs
of cultural activities, events and institutions. The art museums alone are
great draws for cultural tourists:
• Museum of Fine Arts
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
• Institute
of Contemporary Art
• Fogg and Sackler Museums at Harvard
• List
Visual Art Center at MIT
Beyond Boston are the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, the DeCordova
in Lincoln, the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum in
Providence, the Worcester Art Museum and the Museum of Bad Art in Somerville and Dedham. Art
galleries and studios abound on Newbury Street, in the South End and at Fort Point.
Boston and Cambridge are, of
course, college towns and full of libraries, but two great libraries
combine extraordinary architecture and art: the private Boston Athenaeum and Boston Public Library, the oldest public library in America.
There are several
professional theater companies and revival and art cinemas in Boston
and Cambridge.
For music and
dance you’ll find the Boston Symphony
Orchestra, the Boston Ballet,
and the Boston Lyric Opera, as well as
hundreds of other performing arts groups in the city. Not to mention performances of every form in concert halls
and bars! And the Red Sox will be at
Fenway the weekend of the conference.
We look forward to sharing all of this with you when you
come for the 38th Annual ARLIS/NA Conference April 23rd-26th.
For more information: http://arlisna.org/boston2010/.
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