In renovated Addison, unique appeal remains

Brian Allen, director of the Addison Gallery of American Art, which reopens on Tuesday. (Kayana Szymczak for The Boston Globe)

By Sebastian Smee

Globe Staff / September 5, 2010

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ANDOVER — In 2003, the then-deputy chairman of Sotheby’s Europe, James Stourton, wrote a book called “Great Smaller Museums of Europe.’’ In it, he presented his own selection of Europe’s most glorious — and exquisitely housed — smaller collections of art, among them the Louisiana Museum outside Copenhagen, the Mauritshuis in The Hague, the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, the ... (Full article: 1693 words)