With an eye on what’s new for 2022, Yankee’s editors round up the best attractions, eateries, and hotels in top Massachusetts travel destinations, including Boston, Cape Cod, and the Berkshires.
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the institute of contemporary art
As the Boston-Portland rivalry comes to a full boil, Yankee food editor Amy Traverso surveys the scene, talks with top chefs, and checks off her culinary scorecard to discover the dining capital of New England.
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Best of Boston & Cambridge | 2018 Editors’ Choice Awards
Planning a Boston vacation, day trip, or getaway? From dining and lodging to attractions that are well worth the drive, here are nearly 20 of our editors’ picks for the best of Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Free Summer Concerts in New England
A driving beat, a familiar melody, a thousand starry spotlights beaming overhead: Outdoor performances provide the soundtrack for New England’s most unforgettable summer evenings. Here’s a frugal music lover’s guide to the best free shows, programmed by New Englanders with as much passion and talent as the acts they put on stage. Berklee Summer in […]
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Best Bargains in Boston | 2015 Editors’ Choice Awards
Pinching pennies never felt so good! Check out our picks for the best bargains in Boston for 2015. BEST LATE-NIGHT SNACK STRAIGHT LAW, Brookline This gin joint is tucked inside Brookline’s exceptional and cozy tapas parlor, Taberna de Haro. Some of Boston’s finest mixologists helm the bar, and gin cocktails hover around $8. Tapas are $4, and bocatas—fresh baguettes tucked […]
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DeCordova’s Boston Biennial
Back in 1987, the then-DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park in Lincoln, Massachusetts, mounted New England Now: Contemporary Art from Six States, a truly authoritative regional survey of the sort that New England needs. The DeCordova became the New England regional hub for new art under curator Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, but, now renamed DeCordova […]
When I think of the 1980s, I think of an era of excess, indulgence and phoniness. When I think of the art of the 1980s, I think of three artists – Julian Schnabel, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Jeff Koons. From what I understand, Schnabel, the protean prince of art excess, has been purged from the […]
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DeCordova’s Boston Biennial
Back in 1987, the then-DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park in Lincoln, Massachusetts, mounted New England Now: Contemporary Art from Six States, a truly authoritative regional survey of the sort that New England needs. The DeCordova became the New England regional hub for new art under curator Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, but, now renamed DeCordova […]
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Where to Draw the Line
My good friend Rob Shetterly and I had a major difference of opinion recently over the ethical if not the aesthetic merits of drawings by Steve Mumford. Rob, president of the Union of Maine Visual Artists, an art activist, creator of the American Who Tell the Truth portrait series, and a plaintiff in the lawsuit […]
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iImages and eMirrors
In a nice coincidences of exhibitions, the Portsmouth Museum of Art and the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art in Portland are currently featuring shows in which contemporary artists use 21st century technologies to wonderful aesthetic effect. In iImage: The Uncommon Portrait (through April 24), the Portsmouth Museum of Art presents yet […]
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Boston’s Best
Boston tends to have an inferiority complex when it comes to art. One of the world’s great college towns, it’s a great place to learn to be an artist, but not always a great place to pursue a career in art, existing as it does in the long shadow of New York City, one of […]
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Roni Horn aka Roni Horn
Roni Horn is an androgynous artist. She wears horn-rimmed glasses and keeps her hair cropped short. She has said that her name is her destiny. Just as her name and her appearance defy easy gender identity, her art defies easy categorization. Though she majored in sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA “75) […]