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Arts

The Art of the Story

Twenty years ago this month, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum suffered the largest art heist in history. The crime remains unsolved.

The Enlightenment

If you’ve ever wandered through Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, danced in a ballroom at the Westin Copley Place hotel, or even walked past the […]

Cleaning Up the Art World

One spurious Tintoretto at a time.

The Lady of the House

Isabella Stewart Gardner left strict orders: The palazzo she built on the Fens should never, ever change. But museum director Anne Hawley has some strong ideas of her own. Inside her radical—and risky—plan to propel the beloved institution into the 21st century.

City Life

Chris Botti in Boston

On Friday night, we headed to Symphony Hall to catch Chris Botti and the Boston Pops. The trumpeter, who attributes his success to “practice, practice, […]

City Life

The Missing

As if the Longfellow Bridge didn’t have enough problems already. Department of Conservation and Recreation officials report that the span’s decorative trim, which had been […]

City Life

Crossing Into the Abyss

On Elm Street in Somerville, 39-year-old entrepreneur Johnny Monsarrat’s newest scheme is a public oasis for contemplation and counsel. He calls it “Cross into the […]

Arts & Entertainment

Art Plagiarizing Life: Kosher Hip-Hop Style

What does it take to play a Yeshiva student turned hip-hop connoisseur/rapper in a short film? Well, it helps if, like Nosson Zand, you’re already […]

City Life

Wait… Rascal Flatts?!?

Being a columnist, I’ve learned to cope with a steady diet of futility and disappointment. But I can’t recall feeling such a keen sense of […]

City Life

The Boston Strangler Returns

We heard recently that director Brian De Palma, he of Scarface and The Untouchables fame, had signed on to direct a movie based on the […]

Arts & Entertainment

Robert Frost: Party Animal

News broke yesterday that 28 teenagers responsible for wreaking drunken havoc on Robert Frost‘s summer abode in Vermont finally received their punishment. They are to […]

City Life

Kapoor at the ICA: A Dizzying Display

I’ll be the first to admit I know next to nothing about art, yet I still insist on visiting museums several times a year, so […]

City Life

Harvard Museum’s Stunning Rebranding

We here at Boston Daily are big fans of understated revolution. In January, we reeled after Boston University dramatically remade its logo to look shockingly […]

Arts & Entertainment

Keep Off the Grass, and Everything Else

Boston Common is one of our favorite outdoor places in the city. During the winter, it’s fun to watch college students sled on stolen cafeteria […]

City Life

Tom Hanks Brings John Adams to Boston

David McCullough’s granddaughters were livid. The five girls stood in a quiet corner near the red carpet for Boston premiere of John Adams, a seven-part […]