Archive for September, 2007

Post-election Boston blues

The Peabody Museum (11 Divinity Avenue) had a Lewis and Clark exhibit showing some of the artefacts that the Indians traded with them, including a necklace of bear’s teeth which was discovered in the museum’s basement two years ago.

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Big jazz in the Big Apple

Despite election fever, there is time for other things and two remarkable new enterprises have just opened in New York. The Rubin Museum of Art has six floors of Himalayan art in what was the old Barney’s department store - it is one of the most beautiful and certainly the most peaceful museum I have ever seen - the walls on each floor are painted different colours complimenting the paintings, textiles and sculptures and the whole feeling is one of deep tranquility and meditation. A must.

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