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The Turner exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem feels substantial yet doesn’t overwhelm, and its efforts to contextualize Turner through the work of others are instructive….A rare chance to see a broad range of work, through August, 2014.
Spending a day out of Cambridge? If you wish you were in Paris but can only make it to New York –– take your dreams to the Met for a morning or afternoon and see “Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris” and “Paris as Muse,: Photography 1840s-1930s,” both (through May 4) and The Passions of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux” (through May 26
New Cambridge Observer’s Anita Harris enjoyed the venue –global clean tech meetup at Boston Seaport Hotel –and the menu. But the lentil burgers…not so much.
Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) and Breakthrough Greater Boston (BTGB) , both based in Cambridge, have together raised more than $50,000 for vital summer youth programs as part of the 2012 Boston Foundation Giving Challenge competition.