Arts: Visit the 495 corridor

In the Globe, Geoff Edgers has a good piece on small and mid-size museums in places like Worcester and Lowell that are having a hard time hanging onto their dreams for the future. (Related item here.) ... Ironically, the Lowell Sun's Kathleen Deely has a nice feature on the new 119 Gallery in Lowell, "A new digital media performance space that isn't just for MIT geeks," at 119 Chelmsford Street. New media, video art and music are on tap in a space now under renovation. The paper compares it to the Zeitgeist and Mobius. Opening is set for the last weekend in July. (The Sun lists a web address, but it points to a gallery in Mississippi.)