DESPITE DOWNTURN, CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS MOVE FORWARD

The weak economy and its attendant fund-raising challenges won’t sideline the two highest-profile cultural projects in Boston, say officials at the Museum of Fine Arts and the Institute of Contemporary Art. The expansion of the MFA and the construction of a new ICA on the Boston waterfront will be considered landmark developments if they do in fact come to fruition, Geoff Edgers writes in the Boston Globe.