Best free museum
The Museum of Fine Arts can be a little overwhelming when you're trying to sort out what you really want
to look at - it's like wading through the Sunday newspaper. Solution? The Pucker Gallery, on Newbury Street,
has a claim as Boston's best mini-museum, with five floors of goodies ranging from Samuel Bak's disturbing
and beautiful paintings (everything from the Holocaust to angels, in the manner of Bosch and Brueghel - ask
to see The Family) to Mallory Lake's crepuscular watercolors of Tuscany, Ali's thought-provoking cloth
constructions, winsome soapstone carvings by the Inuit people of Hudson Bay, ethereal landscape drawings
by Gunnar Norrman, whimsical mobiles by Mark Davis, and exquisite, even heartrending pottery by Brother
Thomas, Phil Rogers, and some Japanese masters. Just don't blame us if you can't resist buying a souvenir
or two.
The Pucker Gallery, 171 Newbury Street, Boston, (617) 267-9473.
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