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Is Boston still the Athens of America and the hub of the solar system, as 19^th-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 38^th Annual ARLIS/NA Conference April 23^rd-26^th. For more information: http://arlisna.org/boston2010/.