These works of art show why cities will endure
By Mark Feeney Globe Staff,Updated April 22, 2021, 1 hour ago
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Fran Lebowitz surveys a scale model of New York at the Queens Museum in Pretend It s a City. COURTESY OF NETFLIX
âA culture, we all know, is made by cities,â Derek Walcott said in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech. Walcott spent many years teaching at Boston University, so it would be nice to think that Boston was at least somewhere in the poetâs mind when he wrote those words, in 1992.
This city has changed enormously in the nearly three decades since â Big Dig, Seaport, the list goes on â but nothing like the changes that may await all cities as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.