BOSTON – Low-wage workers in Boston, the economic engine that drives the region, have largely been passed over by growth for a quarter century, in terms of real income, according to a report issued by the Boston Redevelopment Authority.
The roughly $35,000 inflation-adjusted median income for Boston residents who worked in 2014 was about the same as in 1990 and in 2000, according to the report, which shows most future job growth will come in occupations that require at least a four-year college degree. Most college-educated workers, 77 percent, earn more than the median income.
BOSTON – Members and guests of the Museum of Fine Arts enjoyed the landscape of a picture-perfect evening as Matthew Teitelbaum, the Ann and Graham Gund Director of the MFA, introduced Steve Martin, Adam Gopnik and Eric Fischl to a capacity audience that included U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren. The four featured speakers took center stage in the Shapiro Family Courtyard to explain a new exhibit, The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris.
With ceilings that soar 63 feet, the courtyard's modern aesthetic was an ideal venue for the lecture marking Steve Martin's guest-curatorial debut. Before the formal conversation began, a recorded piano composition by Canadian Glenn Gould, The Idea of North, (after which this exhibition is named) added melody to the majestic images projected on the expansive walls. The speakers' dialogue amplified variations of the blue and white themes considered to be quintessential expressions of Canadian identity. Collectively, they agreed that Harris's paintings of vaulting ice and snow are absent humanity, but manage to instill a powerful, plangent, emotional quiver in viewers through their intensity and intimacy.
