Rode up to Boston on the train from Providence where preparations were in full swing for Ingrid and Geoff's wedding (I interpreted my job as one of "getting out of the way.") I walked from the South Side station over to the new Institute of Contemporary Art...the last time I had been in Boston it is was not yet finished. 
The building is cantilevered out over the waterfront of Boston Harbour. Yet more remarkable for me was the exhibit of sculpture by Anish Kapoor. His work with mirrors, voids, reflecting and refracting surfaces creates an interactive environment in which the viewer creates the art by becoming part of it. His best known work is the Bean in Millennium Park in Chicago but the enclosed museum walls provides a more intimate way of exploring his concepts of space. 
One of his most impressive works "Sky" was installed at Rockefeller Center in New York...again Anish plays with the sense of scale and the mystery of who we are, where we are, where are we going. After that museum I just wondered the city...visiting the Athenaeum (founded 1807 as a subscription library and art museum). Besides its art works, it has about half the known collection of Washington's personal papers and Bibles which King George sent to the colonies to try to turn them from revolution to religion. Didn't work. So somewhat stunned by history and heat, I continued through the Boston Commons to the Public Library whose courtyard offered a shaded colonnade, sculpture, fountains and that sense of a secular/sacred space which is only found in cities.
