The Boston Athenaeum
The Boston Athenaeum, the city's oldest private library and art museum, is celebrating its 200th anniversary with the exhibit, Acquired Tastes, that opens this week.
WBUR's Bob Oakes spent an afternoon at the Athenaeum, and talked to the curators about their favorite pieces in the exhibit.
Palaces for the People: The Boston Public Library, Boston, M.A.
Dr. John Ochsendorf explores the Guastavino tiling at the Boston Public Library, a project considered to be the seminal work by the Guastavino Company.
Dr. John Ochsendorf, professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and author of Guastavino Vaulting: The Art of Structural Tile (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010), discusses the unique and revolutionary craftsmanship and design that made Rafeal Guastavino Sr. one of the most influential architectural craftsman of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The exhibition Palaces for the People: Guastavino and America's Great Public Spaces is now on view at the National Building Museum through January 20, 2014.
Film Practicum: Boston Athenaeum
The Boston Athenæum, located at 10 1/2 Beacon St. has been a Boston institution for over 200 years. With a gallery and an extensive calendar of events open to the public as well as a multitude of additional benefits for their members, this beautiful membership library sought the help of Boston University's Center for Digital Imaging Art's Practicum program in June, 2010 to create video content introducing the public to The Boston Athenæum's varied offerings. The crew included full-time students Catherine Giarrusso (Producer), Mike Moore (Director of Photography), Gordon Woolfrey (Assistant Camera), Tom Lawrenson (Sound Recordist, Editor) and was advised by Greg Croteau. Our goal was to introduce the organization to the public, highlighting the varied benefits of membership in this longstanding and multi-faceted institution.
Learn Boston history with a Boston Tour
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WOW Travel Guide Welcome to Boston
Boston. Baseball. Baked Beans. Ben Affleck. Boston is one of the oldest cities in the United States with a rich history that can be seen on every corner. Despite its old roots, it is a modern town, teaming with world-class food and drink in every neighborhood. We go deep into this red brick metropolis to discover some of the more off-the-wall attractions like the world's largest (and only?) stained glass globe, large enough that you can walk in it, a hidden library that houses a very unique book bound in human flesh, and a bookshop tucked away in a tiny alley where you can find some real treasures. Of course we hit up some breweries and baseball along the way, so come on and let's check out Bean Town together!
Boston Commons Central Burying Ground Cemetery Massachusetts
This is clip of the Central Burying Ground Cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts on the Boston Common. It was built in 1754 and contains the remains of Gilbert Stuart, a portraitist, as well as other notables.
Paula Matthews welcomes visitors to the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards ceremony
Paula Matthews, acting director of the Boston Athenaeum, welcomes attendees to the 2009 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards ceremony on October 2 at the Boston Athenaeum in Boston, Massachusetts.
First presented in 1967, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards are among the most prestigious honors in the field of children's and young adult literature. Winners are selected in three categories: Picture Book, Fiction and Poetry, and Nonfiction. The winning titles must be published in the United States but they may be written or illustrated by citizens of any country. The awards are chosen by an independent panel of three judges who are annually appointed by the editor in chief of the Horn Book.
For more information, visit hbook.com/bghb/
Boston's Granary Burial Ground
The Granary Burial Grounds in Boston
George Washington Boston Public Garden
Our video features dramatic photography of historical sites and statuary in Boston, Massachusetts that include George Washington, Ben Franklin, Samuel Adams, Paul Revere and Harriet Tubman. These photographic images by Pop Art Now are available as a T-shirt or a high quality photographic print. Pop Art Now's items are proudly made in the USA!
[Wikipedia] Amasa Hewins
Amasa Hewins (July 11, 1795 – August 18, 1855) was an American portrait, genre and landscape painter. He also exported fine paintings, antiques, and objet d'art from Italy to Boston during the 1850s, selling most of it through private dealers and at auctions in New York City and Boston.
Hewins was born in Sharon, Massachusetts, to Esther (Kollock) and Amasa Hewins. He married Elizabeth Newell Alden on August 22, 1820 and thereafter he lived in Dedham. In 1821, Hewins was listed in the Boston business directory as a merchant in West India goods on Brattle Street in Boston, trading in rum, sugar, molasses and cotton. A year later, Elizabeth gave birth to their first child, Charles, prompting Amasa to take his younger brother Royall into business as a partner; the couple eventually had nine children.
An advertisement for A. Hewins, portrait painter appeared in the New York newspaper “The National Advocate” on December 6, 1824. In 1825, Hewins relocated his family to Washington City, where he offered an Academy for the instruction of young Ladies and gentlemen and also held a post as Professor of Drawing at Mr. and Mrs. Bonfils Young Ladies’ Seminary, the school of his sister-in-law and her husband, until at least 1827. Returning to Boston around 1828, Hewins first exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum in 1830, and occasionally thereafter until 1846; he also exhibited at the National Academy of Design. From August 1830 to June 1833, he travelled abroad in Italy, France and England, along with American artists Horatio and John Greenough, Samuel F.B. Morse, and Thomas Cole.
In 1839, Hewins traveled to Baltimore and then to New Haven, Connecticut where he took up residence and advertised as a portrait-painter. It was here, during the height of the Amistad Affair, that the 135-foot long, “The Magnificent Painting of the Massacre on Board the Schooner Amistad!!” was conceived of by Hewins. It toured New England in the spring of 1840. The following year Hewins set sail for his second trip to Florence via Gibraltar; he traveled from November 1841 to August 1842. In Florence, he met with friends Horatio Greenough and Hiram Powers and made sketches for his panorama painting: “The Largest Painting in the world… Hutching’s Grand Classical Panorama of the Sea and Shores of the Mediterranean…Executed from drawings made by A. Hewins during his voyages in the Mediterranean, and his travels in Spain, France and Italy.” From June 1848 to January 1849 the Hutching’s Gallery in Boston displayed Hewins’s moving panorama at the Masonic Temple-Tremont Street. It traveled over the next two years and was displayed, amongst other locations, in Ohio, Albany and New York City.
In March 1852, Hewins returned to Florence, Italy where he painted and worked. In 1854 Hewins was appointed Consular General of Tuscany at Livorno; this position aided him in the exportation of Italian paintings, antiques, and objet d'art to the United States. Dying from Cholera in August 1855, Hewins was buried in the Protestant Cemetery (often called the English Cemetery). His papers are collected in the Boston Athenaeum.
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25 Boston Historical Landmarks in 25 Minutes
History buff and avid jogger Patrick Kennedy takes you on a tour of 25 national historical Boston landmarks in under 25 minutes.
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Roger Sutton closes the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards ceremony
Roger Sutton, editor in chief of the Horn Book, Inc., closes the 2009 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards ceremony on October 2 at the Boston Athenaeum in Boston, Massachusetts.
First presented in 1967, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards are among the most prestigious honors in the field of children's and young adult literature. Winners are selected in three categories: Picture Book, Fiction and Poetry, and Nonfiction. The winning titles must be published in the United States but they may be written or illustrated by citizens of any country. The awards are chosen by an independent panel of three judges who are annually appointed by the editor in chief of the Horn Book.
For more information, visit hbook.com/bghb/
Granary Burying Ground Video Large
Imagine Boston 2030 Forums of the Future The History and Future of Planning in Boston
As part of Imagine Boston 2030's ongoing engagement efforts, a series of panel discussions titled Forums of the Future are being held to engage local planning experts and community members on how Boston has changed as a city, the role planning has played in shaping it's evolution and how residents can help shape the City's future. This particular forum was held at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute in Dorchester and is tilted The History and Future of Planning in Boston.
Frank Islam Athenaeum Symposia: Jennifer Lawless
Jennifer Lawless, Director of the Women and Politics Institute, speaks about young people's growing aversion to politics at Globe Hall, located at Montgomery College's Germantown Campus.
Ms. Checka goes to Boston: The Boston Massacre Part 1
Ms. Checka stands around the Old Granary Burial Ground, resting place of Crispus Attucks, Paul Revere, Sam Adams, and Old Mother Goose.
Institute of Contemporary Art Boston
Institute of Contemporary Art Boston
Elizabeth Severn, Sándor Ferenczi, and the Origins of Mutual Analysis
Sándor Ferenczi’s pioneering experiment in mutual analysis is widely acknowledged as the inspiration for a number of important developments in contemporary psychoanalytic thinking and practice. Ferenczi’s partner in this endeavor was Elizabeth Severn (referred to as “R.N.” in his Clinical Diary), a successful but deeply troubled, self-taught therapist from the United States. This event is sponsored by the Sandor Ferenczi Center ( at the New School for Social Research (
In this half-day conference, Peter Rudnytsky and Arnold Rachman will present papers drawing on discoveries in Severn’s published work, as well as archival material, to shed new light on the contributions that Severn herself made to the development of mutual analysis and to reevaluate her place and significance in psychoanalytic history.
Jim Righter, who was in analysis with Severn as an adolescent, will reflect on his own analysis with Severn in the late 1940's and early 1950's. During his analysis, Righter would often begin by drawing what was on his mind, in order to help him free associate. Fortunately these drawings were kept and this “record of the analysis” is not only preserved in his memory, but also in an extensive collection of drawings. William Brennan will discuss the presentations and elaborate on the contemporary clinical implications and challenges of Ferenczi and Severn’s experiments with mutual analysis and on Severn’s unique contributions to psychoanalysis.
Presentation 1: The Other Side of the Story: Severn on Ferenczi and Mutual Analysis
Peter L. Rudnytsky, Ph.D., LCSW, is Professor of English at the University of Florida and an independent analyst in training. Editor of American Imago from 2001-2011, his many books include Reading Psychoanalysis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck (2002), for which he received the Gradiva Award. Forthcoming in the Relational Perspectives series are his edition of Severn’s The Discovery of the Self and Memory, I Say: Elizabeth Severn, Mutual Analysis, and the Experiential Origins of Ferenczian Trauma Theory.
Presentation 2: Elizabeth Severn: From self-taught therapist to Ferenczi’s Analytic Partner
Arnold Wm. Rachman, Ph.D., F.A.G.P.A., is on the advisory board of The Sándor Ferenczi Center at the New School; Donor, The Elizabeth Severn Papers, The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; and Honorary member, The Sándor Ferenczi Society, Budapest Hungary. He is the author of a Ferenczi trilogy, which includes Sándor Ferenczi: The Psychotherapist of Tenderness and Passion (1997); Psychotherapy of Difficult Cases (2003); and Analysis of the Incest Trauma (2015). His forthcoming book from Routledge Press is Elizabeth Severn, The Evil Genius of Psychoanalysis.
Presentation 3: On Elizabeth Severn’s Couch: Reflections on an analysis with Severn
Jim Righter, B. Arch. is a graduate of Harvard and Yale Universities and a fellow of the American Institute of Architecture. He is a founding member of James Volney Righter Architects (now Albert, Righter & Tittmann, Architects) in Boston, Massachusetts and a Trustee Emeritus of The Boston Athenaeum.
Discussant: B. William Brennan, ThM, MA, LMHC
B. William Brennan is a psychoanalyst in independent practice in Providence, Rhode Island. He is a graduate of the National Training Program of the National Institute of the Psychotherapies and is the Co-chair of the History of Psychoanalysis Committee of the International Forum of Psychoanalytic Education. As a psychoanalytic historian he has written on the identities of the patients in Ferenczi’s Clinical Diary, including Izette de Forest and Clara Thompson.
The Sandor Ferenczi Center |
The New School |
Saturday, September 19, 2015 at 9:30 am to 2:00 pm
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, I 202
Roger Sutton opens the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards ceremony
Roger Sutton, editor in chief of the Horn Book, Inc., opens the 2009 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards ceremony on October 2 at the Boston Athenaeum in Boston, Massachusetts.
First presented in 1967, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards are among the most prestigious honors in the field of children's and young adult literature. Winners are selected in three categories: Picture Book, Fiction and Poetry, and Nonfiction. The winning titles must be published in the United States but they may be written or illustrated by citizens of any country. The awards are chosen by an independent panel of three judges who are annually appointed by the editor in chief of the Horn Book.
For more information, visit hbook.com/bghb/