Trinity Church of Boston
I love good church architecture, but Trinity Church in Boston, Massachusetts also has a collection of murals and “masterpiece” windows by John La Farge (a rival of Louis Comfort Tiffany), so it was a no-brainer …
Harvard Art Museums
The Harvard Art Museums are located in a single building that feels like one museum. However, there are actually three museums under one roof: the Fogg Museum established in 1895, the Busch-Reisinger Museum established in …
John Pizzarelli Swing Seven: Dear Mr. Sinatra
I’ve been a fan of swing jazz guitarist John Pizzarelli since the 1990s, so when I saw that he was playing a gig relatively close to Boston at the impressive Groton Hill Music Center, I …
The Harvard Museum of Natural History
The Harvard Museum of Natural History is one of several museums located on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a large rambling museum with specimens drawn from the University’s three natural …
Museum of Bad Art
First, it’s located in a brewery. Second, its tagline is “art too bad to be ignored.” Yes, of course we had to visit the Museum of Bad Art in Boston, Massachusetts. MOBA aims “to celebrate …
A Few More Highlights at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
We just did a quick dash through the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, since we’d already previously done a thorough job (pre-vanlife) but wanted to revisit a few highlights now that we have collected some …
John Singer Sargent at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Having just read Portraits of an Artist by Mary F. Burns, I was excited to return to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston to review the John Singer Sargent collection with a fresh eye. The …
Blaschka Glass Flowers
We went to the Harvard Museum of Natural History to see something very unusual: Blaschka Glass Flower collection. You can imagine Doug’s delight to be stuck with me looking at two of my favorite things, …
Concord Museum
The Concord Museum (in Concord, Massachusetts, naturally) is a small local history museum, in an area rich in local history. Concord has earned a place on the map for both our country’s political history and …
The Mapparium
The Mapparium is a stained-glass globe that is viewed from a 30-foot-long bridge through its center. It’s three stories tall, and is located at the Christian Science Publishing Society (CSPS) in Boston, Massachusetts. Among other …