After GE left, the then mayor described the city as nothing but a speed bump. Today though it is clear that that speed bump has become a destination. Theater, dining, craft cocktails. Watch the video

"You can see mountains all the way around us, and yet we are in a city of 43,000 people. I can go skiing, mountain biking, I can hop on a lake. It is all right

In January, Ian Bickford became provost of Bard College at Simon's Rock, a small four-year institution in Massachusetts that welcomes as freshmen students who have had enough of high school, for one reason or another,

The public library is one of the greatest inventions of the modern age—a physical representation of the Enlightenment-era belief that citizens should be able to have free and equal access to knowledge. Yet after almost

On April 12, the American Institute of Architects and the American Library Association announced the seven winners for the 2016 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards. They aren't your run-of-the-mill nondescript libraries. For a library to be

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Move over MASS MoCA, there’s not one, but two new museums coming to town. Gluckman Tang Architects has revealed designs for The Global Contemporary Art Museum (GCAM) and The Extreme Model Railroad and Contemporary Architecture

When you think about art in America, which cities come to mind? Maybe it’s New York, home to more galleries and museums than one can count. Then there’s Miami, with its international festivals and budding

The house of a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a famous recording studio and the psychiatric hospital where folk musician Woody Guthrie was treated for Huntington's disease made the National Trust for Historic Preservation's top 10 Wins