museums
News Notes – October 8
Turner vows to testify at his trial By Jonathan Saltzman – Globe Staff / October 8, 2010 Councilor Chuck Turner has never sidestepped a soapbox. During more than a decade in elective office in Boston and many more as an activist for minority communities, he has railed against the government over and over again. Next [...]
Splendor Indeed!
by Chelsea Brown The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (ISGM) kicked off its first Neighborhood Night, Splendor Indeed!, Thursday evening July 8th. Families, college students, young professionals, and residents from the Fenway area and surrounding neighborhoods, explored the three floors of the museum, engaged in hands-on-activities, and listened to musical performances, without paying a dime. “Neighborhood [...]
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Celebrates Community at FREE Family-Friendly Neighborhood Nights
This summer, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum celebrates its eighth year of Neighborhood Nights, a series of free community events welcoming the museum’s neighbors to discover and enjoy a place of beauty and art in their own backyard. Neighborhood Nights invites families and adults who live and work in neighboring communities—especially the Fenway, Mission Hill, [...]
News Notes – July 7
Ambitious young councilors lose luster – With Tobin’s exit, just 2 of the Young Turks remain in office By Donovan Slack – Globe Staff / July 7, 2010 They played squash and basketball together, campaigned for each other, and strategized over late night meals. Calling themselves Young Turks, a half dozen clean-cut, ambitious men under [...]
News Notes – July 4
The Greening of Boston By Eric Moskowitz – Globe Staff / July 4, 2010 As the sun set on July 4, 1910, pleasure craft bobbed between the Harvard and Longfellow bridges, and thousands of Bostonians gathered on the banks of the newly dammed Charles River, in anticipation of a fireworks display billed as bigger than [...]
News Notes – July 1
Lady Gaga, MIT archive make a Polaroid moment By Donna Goodison/Boston Herald – July 1, 2010 Lady Gaga’s Monster Ball Tour hits the TD Garden today, but the pop sensation had a gig at the MIT Museum yesterday. Gaga, named creative director for the revived Polaroid brand in January, posed for a photo shoot using [...]
News Notes – Addendum
Landscape expert: MFA did it right, Gardner museum didn’t Posted by Christopher Shea/Boston.com – June 24, 2010 Charles Birnbaum, the president of the Washington-based Cultural Landscape Foundation, recently weighed in on two Boston museum expansions–those of the “New” MFA and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The two projects, he argues, reflect diametrically opposing approaches to [...]
MFA’s Whirlwind Tours – 3 Masterpieces in 30 Minutes
By Duke Harten Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts is huge — too large to absorb in a single day. For visitors who want a taste of its finest pieces without facing the daunting size of its full collection, the museum offers a lunchtime tour: Three Masterpieces in Thirty Minutes. Dorothy Sophocles, associates guides chair at [...]
News Notes – April 30
1900 – Casey Jones dies in a train wreck in Vaughn, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express. More anniversaries. Foes question public stake in BU lab – Doubt benefit of biohazard facility By Travis Andersen – Globe Staff / April 29, 2010 Opponents of the Boston University biolab project say [...]
New Book on MFA's Sargent Masterpiece
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, by John Singer Sargent.image from www-cvr.ai.uiuc.edu John Singer Sargent’s Model Children By MEGAN MARSHALL/New York Times – Published: December 10, 2009 When I moved to Boston some years ago, I made an early trip to the Museum of Fine Arts and found myself face to face with John Singer [...]