Milwaukee
It's not just for beer and baseball anymore
From the April 22, 2002 Issue of New York
 My
hometown will probably never shake its beer-bellied Laverne & Shirley
rep, but I take some solace in the Milwaukee Art Museum's breathtaking
new Santiago Calatrava addition -- a new destination for international
art and architecture aficionados. The soaring Quadracci Pavilion is
the Rust Belt's answer to Sydney's Opera House, and it rounds out
an institution that was already one of America's finest midsize museums.
You can make an old-school arts weekend of it, taking in a concert
by the city's first-rate orchestra or acclaimed opera before sampling
Sanford's -- among the best restaurants in the Midwest. Stay at Hotel
Metro, an all-suite hotel close to Lake Park -- a gorgeous spread
of rolling greens created by our own dear Central Park designer, Frederick
Law Olmstead.
-- SIMON DUMENCO
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