Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson Collection of Contemporary Crafts at the Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, and the University of Massachusetts gallery, 100 Arlington Street, through December...
Unfortunately, Objects: USA, which originated at the Smithsonian, had to be split up in Boston because the Boston University gallery couldn't hold all 308 objects. But it's well worth the ride from Commonwealth Avenue to Arlington Street to see it all. The wooden pieces-all at the University of Massachusetts-were the ones I most coveted. Wendell Castle's "mahogany and silver leaf desk" was so curvingly sculptural. resting on an undulating snake of wood, that I didn't realize it was a desk until I read the wall label...
...land use was planned and enforced by a commission. Industry was forbidden and commerce limited by zoning laws in most of Back Bay. The broad streets were laid out and planted with European grandeur in mind-the Commonwealth of Massachusetts gave 43 per cent of the land it had filled to streets and parks...
This magnificence was intended to provide proper and prosperous Bostonians with an elegant setting for their homes, churches, and cultural institutions. To assure Back Bay's future as an expensive showpiece, select families were allowed to buy land along Commonwealth Avenue at reduced rates. This strategy worked, and the fashionable migrated to the one-time mudflat...
...Commonwealth of Massachusetts. in recognition of its gift of the site, would receive several acres, which would he used as a memorial park...