Word: local
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Boston often struggles to shed its image of musty, small-town conservatism and to establish itself as a forerunner in the production and exhibition of cutting-edge contemporary work. With regard to the local art market, Katie Block of Miller Block Gallery at 14 Newbury St. laments that the work of a contemporary art gallery director in Boston is much harder than it is elsewhere, professing that Boston art collectors tend toward the traditional side, with a predilection for the strictly representational and less openness toward abstract and conceptual...
...possess. To Yezerski, at least, not only is gallery space more easily and more cheaply had in Boston, but its crowds of university students lend Boston an unusual, and indeed incomparable, atmosphere for art production and reception. He notes, in addition, the strong presence of innovative curators at local university galleries, such as the List Center at MIT and the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis...
Harvard's recently announced commitment to fund affordable housing with $20 million in loans and a $1 million grant could eventually create up to $400 million for the Boston area--an unprecedented contribution, according to local housing non-profits...
...addition, Harvard's example will encourage other private institutions and the government to contribute to affordable housing, according to Mathew A. Thall, senior program director of Boston's Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), a nonprofit organization which will dispense $10 million of the loan...
...court has tackled before, but without much decisiveness: A convoluted 1991 ruling, which included four separate majority opinions, upheld the constitutionality of such laws. Before the court now, however, is a 1998 Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling in favor of Erie, Pa.'s Kandy's Dinner Theater, which challenged a local public indecency ordinance and bills itself as the "First Amendment Rights Headquarters." The state court sided with the dissenting opinion in the 1991 Supreme Court case, saying the court's majority delivered a "hodgepodge of opinions" that didn't translate into a coherent precedent...