On Our Radar: Northeast

The Northeast is buzzing with new tourist attractions and exhibitions for 2010.

Northeast on our radar

Following are just some of the new developments on the horizon:

tions between Norman Rockwell’s DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Penn Station; Westside’s B&O Railroad A major new exhibition dedicated iconic images of American life and the Museum and the University of Maryto the understanding of human origins movies. Two of America’s best-known land to Harbor East and Fell’s Point; will open on March 17, 2010, at the modern filmmakers—George Lucas and the Shot Tower/Marketplace Metro National Museum of Natural History and Steven Spielberg—recognized a Station to Harbor East, Fell’s Point and in Washington, D.C. Based on kindred spirit in Rockwell and formed Johns Hopkins Metro Station. The free decades of cutting-edge research by in-depth collections of his work. Lucas, shuttles will run every 10 minutes from Smithsonian scientists, the $21-million Spielberg and Rockwell perpetuate early morning to late night, seven days David H. Koch Hall of Human ideas about love of country, personal a week. (baltimore.org) Origins will tell the epic story of honor and the value of family through The Baltimore Museum of Art’s human evolution and how humans their work. The exhibition showcases groundbreaking exhibition Cezanne and evolved over six million years in remore than 50 Rockwell paintings and American Modernism (Feb. 14-May 23, sponse to a changing world. Following drawings from these private collections 2010) is the first to explore how the process of scientific discovCézanne transformed modern ery, visitors will explore the art in America. The show evidence for human evolution features 16 paintings and waterand come face-to-face with colors by the French master representations of early hualongside a wide range of works mans. Included will be hunby more than 30 American dreds of fossils, reconstructed artists, from Marsden Hartley faces of early humans and 75 and Maurice Prendergast to cast reproductions of skulls.

Alfred Stieglitz and Man Ray. The March 17 opening marks (artbma.org) the museum’s 100th anniverAmerican Cruise Lines’ sary on the National Mall. newest ship, the 104-passenger (202-633-1000, mnh.si.edu) Independence, is under conThe exhibition One Life: struction at Chesapeake ShipHopping around downtown Baltimore will be easy when Echoes of Elvis salutes the building in Salisbury, Md., and the Charm City Circulator shuttle buses roll out next year.

King of Rock ’n Roll from will join its fleet of small cruise Jan. 8-Aug. 29 at the National ships for the 2010 season. The maiden Portrait Gallery. Marking the 75th that are rarely seen by the public. Exvoyage is set for June 12 on the Chesaanniversary of Elvis Presley’s birth, it cerpts from interviews in which Lucas peake Bay. Other cruise destinations features work by such artists such as and Spielberg talk about Rockwell and will include New England, the Hudson Ralph Wolfe Cowan, Red Grooms, the works in their collections will be River and Historic South. The fifth Robert Arneson and others who have shown in the exhibition galleries. ship of the Guilford, Connecticutcreated mythical, spiritual and earthly (202-633-8530, americanart.si.edu) based line will feature luxuries that ACL images of the man whose legacy inguests have come to expect, including cludes superlative moments in music, MARYLAND staterooms with large, opening picture entertainment, life and the afterlife.

Fast, frequent and free...that’s the windows, roomy baths and 80 percent (202-633-1000, npg.si.edu) trademark of downtown Baltimore’s with private balconies. Every stateroom The Smithsonian American Art Charm City Circulator, a new shuttle will be fitted with flat-screen satellite Museum presents Telling Stories: Norbus system coming in spring 2010. VisTV and DVD players, individual man Rockwell from the Collections of itors will find getting around Baltimore climate control and wireless Internet George Lucas and Steven Spielberg from easy with 21 sleek, hybrid buses serving access. The ship’s layout will include an July 2, 2010-Jan. 2, 2011. It is the first three different routes – Federal Hill and elevator to all decks and a glass-enclosed major exhibition to explore the connecthe Inner Harbor to Mt. Vernon and dining room.

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on our radar: northeast ❖ Also new for 2010 will be a sister ship’s “Philadelphia and Potomac Cruise” between Philadelphia and the Washington, D.C. area. The sevennight trip on the American Spirit follows the Delaware River, through the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal, into the Chesapeake Bay and up the Potomac River. Stops include the C&D Canal; Chestertown, St. Michaels, Annapolis and St. Mary’s, Md.; and Mt. Vernon/Alexandria, Va. (800-8146880, americancruiselines.com)

historically themed nighttime ambulatory light-and-sound show, set to launch in the July 2010. A major digital upgrade will make the only show of its kind even more dazzling as participants wearing 3-D sound headsets tour the outside of several of Independence National Historical Park’s most significant

G. Widman for Historic Philadelphia, Inc.

Auguste Renoir’s later years as he considered his legacy and created masterpieces that draw comparisons to those of the old masters. With 100 works of art, including 20 by avante-garde painters like Matisse and Picasso, who drew inspiration from his artistry, Late Renoir paints a portrait of the artist as innovator, teacher and elder artistic statesman. (215-763-8100, philamuseum.org) The Pittsburgh Penguins NHL hockey team will have a new home when the $321-million Consol Energy Center opens in August NEW HAMPSHIRE 2010. The arena, named after the The M/S Mount Washington, largest producer of bituminous the iconic Lake Winnipesaukee coal, will include a full-service cruise vessel, will undergo a $1restaurant, public bars and a food million renovation this winter to court on both the main and update its passenger facilities and upper-level concourses, five retail reduce polluting emissions with shops and an enclosed bridge new technology engines. The curconnected to a new parking rent twin diesel engines were ingarage. The building also will be stalled in the spring of 1946. home to concerts, circuses, stage Offering sightseeing, Sunday shows and sporting events such brunch, sunset and dinner dance as college basketball tournacruises on New Hampshire’s ments, indoor soccer and tennis. largest lake, the 230-foot ship deThe replacement for the current parts from Weirs Beach in LacoMellon Arena (built in 1961) nia from late May to late October. will be the first LEED-certified Philadelphia’s popular Lights of Liberty show will (603-366-5531, cruisenh.com) National Hockey League arena in unveil major upgrades next summer. the country. (penguins.nhl.com) NEW YORK buildings to see and hear recreations Visitors to the Rochester Museum RHODE ISLAND of the events that took place during the & Science Center can delve into The beachfront Ocean House nation’s founding. Summer will also the forensic science used by today’s luxury resort in Watch Hill will re-open mark the debut of an indoor Lights of crime scene investigators when it welin June 2010. The Victorian-era Liberty show. (215-629-5801, historic comes CSI: The Experience from Oct. 2, property is perched high on bluffs philadelphia.org) 2010-Jan. 2, 2011. The multi-media overlooking Little Narragansett Bay, The Philadelphia Museum of Art environment and special effects come with sweeping views of the Atlantic hosts two blockbuster shows in 2010. direct from the CSI television series.

Ocean, Montauk and Block Island.

Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris, (585-271-4320, rmsc.org) Facilities will include 49 elegant guest on view Feb. 24-April 25, explores the rooms and 23 private residences, farmdecades between 1905 and 1945—the PENNSYLVANIA to-table cuisine, a 2,000-sq.-ft. spa period some consider to be the artist’s The Lights of Liberty will shine ever and more than 10,000 square feet of most productive and influential. Late brighter after a complete overhaul of the event space. (oceanhouseri.com) Renoir (June 17-Sept. 6) follows Pierre34 December 2009

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