Best of Boston
Best Museum
1989 Best Museum, Shop
Museum of Fine Arts
Boston
Old Yankee ladies don't die—they just go to work at the MFA gift shop. The annual sale is as close as you'll ever get to [...] read more»
1988 Best Museum, Show
<em>Je suis le cahier</em>, Picasso’s Sketchbooks
Boston
If you missed it, you missed a rare chance to see the master's movement from idea to art, as well as, of course, Picasso's undying [...] read more»
1988 Best Museum, Comeback
The Evans Wing
Boston
It took four years and $11.5 million, but the Evans Wing is back and packed with 700 fine European and American paintings, including works of [...] read more»
1987 Best Museum, Show
Elizabeth Murray
Cambridge
The 10-year retrospective of New York artist Elizabeth Murray at MIT's List Visual Arts Center, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge. The paintings were there, the drawings [...] read more»
1987 Best Museum, Undiscovered
Fruitlands
Bronson Alcott's utopia here failed, but the idyllic setting won't fail to please. read more»
1986 Best Museum, Show
The Sonnabend Collection’s Visit to the MFA
Overdue exposure for Bostonians to key pop and minimalist works from the fifties and sixties. read more»
1986 Best Museum, Programming
Danforth Museum of Art’s
For the Project II series, which featured a changing spectacle of inventive installations by prominent local and national artists. read more»
1986 Best Museum, New
Harvard’s Arthur D. Sackler Museum
Cambridge
Stunning natural light—drenched galleries show off Harvard's superb collections of classical and Oriental works. read more»
1986 Best Museum
Museum of Science
Boston
After a major sprucing up, the Museum of Science is hosting innovative, hands-on exhibits. Strong on computers. read more»
1984 Best Museum, Out-of-the-Way
Merrimack Valley Textile Museum and Museum of Our National Heritage
Two sleepers. read more»