ARLIS Tours-Boston 2010
Welcome to
First time to
Contemporary art? We have it covered, with a special all day
tour out to Williamstown, home of MassMOCA, the
Clark Art Institute (with a lovely new
addition by Tadao Ando), and, in a nod to the past, a visit to Edith
Wharton’s summer house to see how the other half
lived and gardened.
Want to explore the new art scene in
Cemeteries and landscapes? We will show you the
nation’s first landscaped cemetery (Mt. Auburn), the
work and office of Frederick Law Olmsted,
the nation’s first landscape architect and premier designer of
As for architecture, we have options for everyone. In
addition to the Beacon Hill Tour, beginning and ending with buildings designed
by Charles Bulfinch,
we have a day-long trip to
New this year are offerings for Monday dubbed hybrid tours.
These offerings will combine tours with sessions held at local venues. Sessions
will be held at Harvard, MIT, the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and
a special trip to
In addition to our organized tours we will have a table full
of suggestions for ways to spend a few hours out in the city, so as Dave
Loggins wrote in his song, “please come to