COLLECTIONS CORNER PETITE FEET VOICES BEYOND Recently Acquired A Concert in Celebration BONDAGE of Artist Allan Rohan Crite An Anthology of Verse BOSTON ATHENÆUM by African Americans JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2016 NOW ON VIEW Concert with jazz ensemble Petite Feet The Athenæum recently acquired Interior with Figure, Antwerp by of the 19th Century Otto Grundmann. Grundmann, who had his earliest artistic training in Tuesday, February 23, 6-7 pm his native Dresden, came to America in 1876 to accept the directorship Registration begins February 9 at 9 am Book talk with literary scholars Erika DeSimone and Fidel Louis of the new School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He served P R Members $15 Non-members $30 in that role, and as a highly respected teacher, until his death in 1890. Thursday, February 25, 6-7 pm He specialized in genre painting (scenes of everyday life) in the Prolific Boston artist Allan Rohan Crite Registration begins February 11 at 9 am tradition of seventeenth-century Dutch masters such as Vermeer. created an extensive body of work featuring R Members Free Non-Members $15 This recent acquisition, the first painting by this important Boston the daily life of ordinary African Americans. P artist to enter the Athenæum’s collection, is in every way In celebration of his work, and in collabora- Voices Beyond Bondage: An Anthology of characteristic of his work. The painting can be viewed in the tion with the New England Conservatory’s Verse by African Americans of the 19th sitting room off the hallway leading to the Children’s Library. Community Performances and Partnerships Century is a collection of 150 poems culled PICTURING Program, the Boston Athenæum is proud to from burgeoning black-owned newspapers present jazz ensemble Petite Feet. Petite Feet FREDERICK DOUGLASS of the era, and offers a fresh perspective on will respond musically to a selection of Crite’s African-American life and identity. These An Illustrated Biography of works from the Athenæum’s collection. poems are penned mostly by everyday people the Nineteenth Century’s Most DOWN IN THE DUMPS compelled to write—despite being born into a NEWS YOU CAN USE View a selection of Crite’s watercolors and Reader to Reader Recs Photographed American world of fundamental inequity. Whether these drawings online, and see his paintings authors were formally schooled or self-taught, on view in the Bornheimer Room and In Athenæum jargon, the “dump” refers to the IMAGING STUDIO In celebration of the relocation of the Imaging Book talk with best-selling author whether they were slaves, free people, or the Membership Office. re-shelving area on every floor. Members in Studio (formerly called the Digital Lab) to the second floor of 10½ and Harvard University Professor descendants of slaves, African Americans put THE RACE for THE WHITE HOUSE in 2016 the know have been perusing these shelves Beacon Street, Patricia Boulos, Head of Digital Programs, and her team of English and African American ink to paper and declared their passions in Studies John Stauffer This program is supported, in part, by a grant for years. Can’t make it into the building for will host informal, drop-in open studio sessions on Tuesday, January verse. Until now, these poems—and an entire The New Hampshire Primary and Beyond from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, this serendipitous search? Don’t fret. View our 19, from 1:30-4:30 pm and Wednesday, January 20, from 4-6 pm. All literary movement—were lost to modern Are you a Monday, February 22, 6-7 pm a state agency. weekly list on the “Book Recommendations” members are encouraged to stop by and learn more about the Imaging readers. A panel discussion with The Boston Globe political reporters Shira T. Center, Registration begins February 8 at 9 am POLITICAL page under the “Library” tab of the website for Studio, where colleagues create the online images that bring our rarest Akilah Johnson, Annie Linskey, Jim O’Sullivan, James Pindell, and Matthew Viser Members $15 these Reader to Reader Recommendations. collections before the world. As visitors will learn, the new studio M R Can’t get enough poetry? Discover the poetry HISTORY offers optimal climate and security controls, and ideal proximity to of Phillis Wheatley, the first Black poet in Thursday, January 21, 6-7 pm, Tremont Temple, 88 Tremont Street, Boston JUNKIE? In this talk, John Stauffer will share with us Recent titles found down rare materials storerooms. America to publish a book, in the Athenæum’s M F R Registration begins December 28 at 9 am excerpts and images from Picturing Frederick in the dumps, include: circulating and special collections. PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE CHECKLIST For the first time Douglass, a work that promises to revolution- Political reporters from The Boston Globe will discuss one of the most unpredictable presidential Check out our collection races in a generation. Just days before Iowa and New Hampshire voters make their picks for the Walker, Alice foreword ever, complete illustrated checklists of the Athenæum’s collections ize our knowledge of race and photography of 19th-century political presidential nominees, top political journalists from the Pulitzer-prize winning news organization and illustration by Shiloh of paintings and sculpture are available online — a first step towards in 19th-century America. Stauffer will paint ballots, available in the PROPRIETORS’ ANNUAL will convene for a panel on the campaigns they have been covering for the last year. Who will win McCloud. Hard Times our long-term goal of making a searchable online catalogue available a picture of Frederick Douglass as a leading Digital Collections the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary? Will the victors be the eventual nominees? Require Furious Dancing: to members and researchers around the world. The art lists appear in a pioneer in photography, both as a stately MEETING section of our website. Tuesday, February 16, 3:45 pm M R F And how will this influence who wins the White House in 2016? New Poems, Library of sidebar on the “Paintings & Sculpture” page under the “Collections” subject and as a prescient theorist who believed in the explosive social power of Congress Classification tab of the website. Proprietors will receive an email or paper invitation. PS3573.A425 H37 2010 what was then just a nascent art form. DIRECTOR’S NOTE ART PERIODICALS The organization of art periodicals is complete! Proprietors of the Boston Athenæum are invited to Interested in viewing some of Stauffer’s Readers will find their favorites in an attractive, well-organized, and the 2016 Annual Meeting. A reception will follow. “The horizon leans forward, Offering you space to place new steps of change.” primary source materials first-hand? Make freshly painted space outside the Upper Pilgrim elevator, just steps Guests are welcome to join the reception. For more Maya Angelou (from The Rock Cries Out Today) an appointment to view our 1865 Merrill & IN THE GALLERIES from their former location in the art reference section. information, please contact Catherine McGrath at Crosby photograph of Frederick Douglass. Happy New Year! At the Athenæum, 2016 offers fresh expanses for the intellect 617-720-7661 or [email protected]. and the imagination. A panel of Boston Globe journalists will assess the Collecting for the Boston Athenæum in the 21st PHONE BOOTHS Looking for a place to sneak away to make a phone presidential primaries; an MFA curator will reinterpret a beloved masterpiece; Century: Maps, Charts, & Plans brings together call? Try out our vintage phone booths repurposed as mobile phone use a geographer-neuroscientist will consider mapping in the age of GPS; a Harper an exquisite selection of materials from the stations that have been installed in the hallway leading to the Children’s Lee scholar will discuss Go Set a Watchman; a jazz ensemble will pay tribute institution’s rich cartographic collection. The Library. Phone calls can also be placed in the vestibule of the building. CLEMENS TEUFEL to the visual art of Allan Rohan Crite; our digital team will welcome members GLIMPSED third in a series, the exhibition celebrates the Talking on mobile phones is prohibited elsewhere in the building, and A classical piano concert featuring the works of Gershwin and Hanson to their new lab; and anthology editors will read poems by 19th-century AT 10½ Athenæum’s robust acquisitions program and on the terraces. African-Americans. showcases more than 50 objects that have been Sunday, February 28, 1-2 pm added to the collection since the year 2000. NEW FACES The Athenæum is pleased to welcome the following Registration begins February 12 at 9 am P R Members $15 Non-Members $30 colleagues: Alyssa Garcia, Development Intern, and Graham Skinner, The exhibition of Maps, Charts, & Plans is complemented by a new presentation During last month’s “Eye of the Expert: in the Sitting Room. Washington Allston paintings enliven the Children’s Library An Evening of Mystery and Mayhem” GALLERY TALKS with Curator of Maps Cataloging Assistant (formerly a Digital Programs Intern). In his solo debut concert, Clemens Teufel will feature the colorful compositions of neo-romantic corridor, and portrait miniatures appear in the Art Department. At times when program, Stanley Ellis Cushing, John Lannon are limited to 15 participants. master composer, Hanson, and the swing and glamour of the all-time favorite, Gershwin. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Clemens Teufel received his first piano lessons at the age of seven. Described winter weather complicates a visit, our website offers a respite from cabin fever. Anne C. and David J. Bromer Curator From event recordings to electronic resources—which now include Oxford Music of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Wednesday, January 13, 11 am-12 pm as “Red-hot German Pianist” by the Cape Ann Beacon and commended for “incredibly sensitive Online—to complete illustrated checklists of the art collection, there’s always discusses a print of the front elevation Registration begins December 30 at 9 am playing” by the Weilheimer Tagblatt, Teufel started his education at the University Franz Liszt in something new to discover. of the Massachusetts State Prison in Wednesday, February 10, 2-3 pm Weimar and completed his studies at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts in Charlestown where James Allen (alias Registration begins January 27 at 9 am the masterclass of Professor Lev Natochenny. Elizabeth E. Barker, Ph.D. George Walton), the highwayman of M F www.bostonathenaeum.org This program is supported, in part, by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. Stanford Calderwood Director the BA’s infamous “Skin Book,” died. COLLECTIONS CORNER PETITE FEET VOICES BEYOND Recently Acquired A Concert in Celebration BONDAGE of Artist Allan Rohan Crite An Anthology of Verse BOSTON ATHENÆUM by African Americans JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2016 NOW ON VIEW Concert with jazz ensemble Petite Feet The Athenæum recently acquired Interior with Figure, Antwerp by of the 19th Century Otto Grundmann. Grundmann, who had his earliest artistic training in Tuesday, February 23, 6-7 pm his native Dresden, came to America in 1876 to accept the directorship Registration begins February 9 at 9 am Book talk with literary scholars Erika DeSimone and Fidel Louis of the new School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He served P R Members $15 Non-members $30 in that role, and as a highly respected teacher, until his death in 1890. Thursday, February 25, 6-7 pm He specialized in genre painting (scenes of everyday life) in the Prolific Boston artist Allan Rohan Crite Registration begins February 11 at 9 am tradition of seventeenth-century Dutch masters such as Vermeer. created an extensive body of work featuring R Members Free Non-Members $15 This recent acquisition, the first painting by this important Boston the daily life of ordinary African Americans. P artist to enter the Athenæum’s collection, is in every way In celebration of his work, and in collabora- Voices Beyond Bondage: An Anthology of characteristic of his work. The painting can be viewed in the tion with the New England Conservatory’s Verse by African Americans of the 19th sitting room off the hallway leading to the Children’s Library. Community Performances and Partnerships Century is a collection of 150 poems culled PICTURING Program, the Boston Athenæum is proud to from burgeoning black-owned newspapers present jazz ensemble Petite Feet. Petite Feet FREDERICK DOUGLASS of the era, and offers a fresh perspective on will respond musically to a selection of Crite’s African-American life and identity. These An Illustrated Biography of works from the Athenæum’s collection. poems are penned mostly by everyday people the Nineteenth Century’s Most DOWN IN THE DUMPS compelled to write—despite being born into a NEWS YOU CAN USE View a selection of Crite’s watercolors and Reader to Reader Recs Photographed American world of fundamental inequity. Whether these drawings online, and see his paintings authors were formally schooled or self-taught, on view in the Bornheimer Room and In Athenæum jargon, the “dump” refers to the IMAGING STUDIO In celebration of the relocation of the Imaging Book talk with best-selling author whether they were slaves, free people, or the Membership Office. re-shelving area on every floor. Members in Studio (formerly called the Digital Lab) to the second floor of 10½ and Harvard University Professor descendants of slaves, African Americans put THE RACE for THE WHITE HOUSE in 2016 the know have been perusing these shelves Beacon Street, Patricia Boulos, Head of Digital Programs, and her team of English and African American ink to paper and declared their passions in Studies John Stauffer This program is supported, in part, by a grant for years. Can’t make it into the building for will host informal, drop-in open studio sessions on Tuesday, January verse. Until now, these poems—and an entire The New Hampshire Primary and Beyond from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, this serendipitous search? Don’t fret. View our 19, from 1:30-4:30 pm and Wednesday, January 20, from 4-6 pm. All literary movement—were lost to modern Are you a Monday, February 22, 6-7 pm a state agency. weekly list on the “Book Recommendations” members are encouraged to stop by and learn more about the Imaging readers. A panel discussion with The Boston Globe political reporters Shira T. Center, Registration begins February 8 at 9 am POLITICAL page under the “Library” tab of the website for Studio, where colleagues create the online images that bring our rarest Akilah Johnson, Annie Linskey, Jim O’Sullivan, James Pindell, and Matthew Viser Members $15 these Reader to Reader Recommendations. collections before the world. As visitors will learn, the new studio M R Can’t get enough poetry? Discover the poetry HISTORY offers optimal climate and security controls, and ideal proximity to of Phillis Wheatley, the first Black poet in Thursday, January 21, 6-7 pm, Tremont Temple, 88 Tremont Street, Boston JUNKIE? In this talk, John Stauffer will share with us Recent titles found down rare materials storerooms. America to publish a book, in the Athenæum’s M F R Registration begins December 28 at 9 am excerpts and images from Picturing Frederick in the dumps, include: circulating and special collections. PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE CHECKLIST For the first time Douglass, a work that promises to revolution- Political reporters from The Boston Globe will discuss one of the most unpredictable presidential Check out our collection races in a generation. Just days before Iowa and New Hampshire voters make their picks for the Walker, Alice foreword ever, complete illustrated checklists of the Athenæum’s collections ize our knowledge of race and photography of 19th-century political presidential nominees, top political journalists from the Pulitzer-prize winning news organization and illustration by Shiloh of paintings and sculpture are available online — a first step towards in 19th-century America. Stauffer will paint ballots, available in the PROPRIETORS’ ANNUAL will convene for a panel on the campaigns they have been covering for the last year. Who will win McCloud. Hard Times our long-term goal of making a searchable online catalogue available a picture of Frederick Douglass as a leading Digital Collections the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary? Will the victors be the eventual nominees? Require Furious Dancing: to members and researchers around the world. The art lists appear in a pioneer in photography, both as a stately MEETING section of our website. Tuesday, February 16, 3:45 pm M R F And how will this influence who wins the White House in 2016? New Poems, Library of sidebar on the “Paintings & Sculpture” page under the “Collections” subject and as a prescient theorist who believed in the explosive social power of Congress Classification tab of the website. Proprietors will receive an email or paper invitation. PS3573.A425 H37 2010 what was then just a nascent art form. DIRECTOR’S NOTE ART PERIODICALS The organization of art periodicals is complete! Proprietors of the Boston Athenæum are invited to Interested in viewing some of Stauffer’s Readers will find their favorites in an attractive, well-organized, and the 2016 Annual Meeting. A reception will follow. “The horizon leans forward, Offering you space to place new steps of change.” primary source materials first-hand? Make freshly painted space outside the Upper Pilgrim elevator, just steps Guests are welcome to join the reception. For more Maya Angelou (from The Rock Cries Out Today) an appointment to view our 1865 Merrill & IN THE GALLERIES from their former location in the art reference section. information, please contact Catherine McGrath at Crosby photograph of Frederick Douglass. Happy New Year! At the Athenæum, 2016 offers fresh expanses for the intellect 617-720-7661 or [email protected]. and the imagination. A panel of Boston Globe journalists will assess the Collecting for the Boston Athenæum in the 21st PHONE BOOTHS Looking for a place to sneak away to make a phone presidential primaries; an MFA curator will reinterpret a beloved masterpiece; Century: Maps, Charts, & Plans brings together call? Try out our vintage phone booths repurposed as mobile phone use a geographer-neuroscientist will consider mapping in the age of GPS; a Harper an exquisite selection of materials from the stations that have been installed in the hallway leading to the Children’s Lee scholar will discuss Go Set a Watchman; a jazz ensemble will pay tribute institution’s rich cartographic collection. The Library. Phone calls can also be placed in the vestibule of the building. CLEMENS TEUFEL to the visual art of Allan Rohan Crite; our digital team will welcome members GLIMPSED third in a series, the exhibition celebrates the Talking on mobile phones is prohibited elsewhere in the building, and A classical piano concert featuring the works of Gershwin and Hanson to their new lab; and anthology editors will read poems by 19th-century AT 10½ Athenæum’s robust acquisitions program and on the terraces. African-Americans. showcases more than 50 objects that have been Sunday, February 28, 1-2 pm added to the collection since the year 2000. NEW FACES The Athenæum is pleased to welcome the following Registration begins February 12 at 9 am P R Members $15 Non-Members $30 colleagues: Alyssa Garcia, Development Intern, and Graham Skinner, The exhibition of Maps, Charts, & Plans is complemented by a new presentation During last month’s “Eye of the Expert: in the Sitting Room. Washington Allston paintings enliven the Children’s Library An Evening of Mystery and Mayhem” GALLERY TALKS with Curator of Maps Cataloging Assistant (formerly a Digital Programs Intern). In his solo debut concert, Clemens Teufel will feature the colorful compositions of neo-romantic corridor, and portrait miniatures appear in the Art Department. At times when program, Stanley Ellis Cushing, John Lannon are limited to 15 participants. master composer, Hanson, and the swing and glamour of the all-time favorite, Gershwin. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Clemens Teufel received his first piano lessons at the age of seven. Described winter weather complicates a visit, our website offers a respite from cabin fever. Anne C. and David J. Bromer Curator From event recordings to electronic resources—which now include Oxford Music of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Wednesday, January 13, 11 am-12 pm as “Red-hot German Pianist” by the Cape Ann Beacon and commended for “incredibly sensitive Online—to complete illustrated checklists of the art collection, there’s always discusses a print of the front elevation Registration begins December 30 at 9 am playing” by the Weilheimer Tagblatt, Teufel started his education at the University Franz Liszt in something new to discover. of the Massachusetts State Prison in Wednesday, February 10, 2-3 pm Weimar and completed his studies at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts in Charlestown where James Allen (alias Registration begins January 27 at 9 am the masterclass of Professor Lev Natochenny. Elizabeth E. Barker, Ph.D. George Walton), the highwayman of M F www.bostonathenaeum.org This program is supported, in part, by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. Stanford Calderwood Director the BA’s infamous “Skin Book,” died. NEW MEMBERS’ BRIDGING THE GAP FEBRUARY is African-American History Month JANUARY The Meeting of Eastern RECEPTION Celebrate. Read. Learn. and Western Art Tuesday, February 9, 5:30-7 pm FEBRUARY are eerily familiar, turns out the fastest marathoners New members will receive an email or paper TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, HAPPY Panel discussion moderated by GO SET A WATCHMAN on earth. But after his journalist father is killed for 2016 NEW YEAR! associate professor of Art History invitation, and must RSVP by February 2. his outspoken political views, Keita must flee to the JUST for KIDS at MIT, Kristel Smentek And the “Discovery” of Racism wealthy nation of Freedom State―a fictionalized This wine-and-cheese reception offers new country engaged in a crackdown on all members an opportunity to meet expert Tuesday, January 26, 6-7:30 pm Lecture by Boston University English undocumented people, bearing a striking employees and like-minded fellow members Registration begins January 12 at 9 am Professor John T. Matthews resemblance to modern America. There, Keita of our energetic, intellectually curious MARTINI MOVIE NIGHT P R Members $15 Non-members $30 becomes a part of the new underground. He TEDDY BEARS’ PICNIC & SLEEPOVER community and explore our labyrinthine Wednesday, February 3, 6-7 pm learns what it means to live as an illegal. This building during a playful scavenger hunt. Young Patrons Sponsored Shifting trends in American taste are, in part, Registration begins January 20 at 9 am tension-filled novel casts its eye on race, human Saturday, February 27, 11 am-2pm As with all events, guests are welcome! M F Registration begins February 12 at 9 am Viewing of High Society a product of cultural exchanges between the P R Members $15 Non-members $30 potential, and what it means to belong. East and West over time. Examples of such Wednesday, January 13, 5:30 pm (reception), exchanges include the journeys of Venetian To Kill a Mockingbird is among the most cherished We’re hiring! The Boston Athenæum seeks qualified stuffed animals, action figures, and 6:30 pm (showing) painters to the Turkish court and the cultural coming-of-age stories in American literary culture, PROJECT PUFFIN BEYOND FREEDOM’S REACH dolls to work for one special night in Reference, Circulation, Security, and other library All attendees must be 21+ conflicts of our world since 9/11. The meeting and its portrait of the noble Atticus Finch, a lawyer CHILDE HASSAM The Improbable Quest to Bring a departments. Human friends are invited to join us for a brown-bag Teddy Bears’ Picnic and Registration begins December 30 at 9 am of Eastern and Western art is more than a who risks everything to defend a black man falsely A Kidnapping in the Twilight screening of Toy Story before the stuffies, lovies, and toys get to work! Human friends can M $35 At Dusk: Boston Common at Twilight synthesis; it is a process in which civilizations Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock accused of a crime in the segregated South of the of Slavery pick up their stuffies, lovies, and toys at the Circulation Desk along with pictures of all the stimulate and enrich each other. 1930s, has inspired generations of admirers. For Book talk with renowned seabird all its defense of such fundamental democratic work their stuffed friends completed overnight on Sunday, February 28, from 12-4 pm. Join us for a viewing of the 1956 musical Book talk with curator and scholar Erica Hirshler Book talk with Civil War expert and comedy High Society (Metro-Goldwyn- conservationist Stephen W. Kress principles, however, Mockingbird also has been Georgetown University Professor PRESCHOOL STORY TIME FAMILY STORY TIME Mayer), a film directed by Charles Walters and associate editor of The Boston criticized for its narrowing of questions of racial Tuesday, January 19, 12-1 pm P F No Reservations required Adam Rothman Tuesdays at 10:30 am Saturdays at 10:30 am and starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Globe Derrick Z. Jackson justice to a drama of white conscience, of historical January 5, 12, 19, 26 January 9, 16, 23, 30 Frank Sinatra. Theater snacks and light fare change to a matter of individual attitude. In this talk, the Croll Senior Curator of American Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Wednesday, February 17, 12-1 pm February 2, 9, 16, 23 February 6, 13, 20, 27 will be served with gin and vodka martinis. Thursday, February 4, 12-1 pm Boston, Erica E. Hirshler, will share excerpts of her vivid account of one of Boston’s best- P F No reservations required M F No reservations required M F No reservations required loved paintings: Childe Hassam’s At Dusk (Boston Common at Twilight), 1880. With its rosy P F No reservations required Harper Lee took several years to revise the original Do you just love show tunes? Award-winning draft of the novel that eventually appeared as rust tones, intimate familial vignette, and quiet expanse of snow-laden park, today At Dusk In this talk, Adam Rothman will share excerpts STORIES & CRAFTS YOUNG READERS’ composer Cole Porter wrote the musical score In this talk, Stephen Kress, or “The Puffin To Kill a Mockingbird. Her original manuscript, seems to encourage reflection and represent a decidedly old-fashioned city. Yet Hirshler will from Beyond Freedom’s Reach, the true story of FOR AGES 5+ BOOK GROUP for High Society, including “True Love” sung Man,” and notable journalist and nature entitled “Go Set a Watchman,” was known to reveal the ways in which the painting visually signaled the emerging modern city, from one woman’s quest to rescue her children from Wednesdays at 3:30 pm Recommended for children aged 9 to 13 by Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly. Make an photographer Derrick Jackson will share exist, but only recently did the author agree to its bondage. In the gripping, meticulously researched subtleties about women’s place in the urban landscape to the uproarious clang of the streetcars January 6, 13, 20, 27 Mondays at 6 pm appointment to view vocal and piano sheet with audience members the inspiring story publication after it was rediscovered in her papers. account, Adam Rothman lays bare the mayhem of that would have been heard on the busiest block in Boston. She will discuss her carefully February 3, 10, 17, 24 January 18 and February 22 music for seven of the songs from the film of Project Puffin, which has restored more In this lecture, John T. Matthews will discuss emancipation during and after the Civil War. After researched and elegantly presented book, which offers fresh insights into a beloved painting M F No reservations required Register by emailing in the Athenæum’s collection. than 1,000 puffin pairs to three Maine islands, with audience members how this “new” work Union forces captured New Orleans in 1862, the and an evocative glimpse of a singular moment in Boston’s history. [email protected] where they had been wiped out and alters our understanding of what Lee wanted to slave-owning De Harts fled to Havana, taking Rose STORIES, SONGS, M $3 nonexistent for more than 100 years. Kress say about the racial crisis in the South during the Herera’s three children with them. When Mary De Another viewpoint? Frank Duveneck’s painting, The Boston Common (1890, oil on canvas, AND ACTIVITIES and Jackson will share techniques that were decades of the modern civil rights movement. Hart returned to New Orleans in 1865, she was UR308), offers an intriguing counterpoint to Hassam’s parkscape. Find it above the computer Thursdays at 10:30 am LEGO®, CHESS, catalog near the circulation desk. developed during the project and have since surprised to find herself taken into custody as a been used to help restore rare and endangered January 7, 14, 21, 28 & PUZZLE CLUB This panel will offer perspectives on Curious about this period in American history? kidnapper. As Rothman will share, the case of Rose seabirds worldwide. Further, they will February 4, 11, 18, 25 Recommended for children aged 5 to 8 Western and Asian artists’ influences from Make an appointment to view handouts from Herera’s abducted children reveals to the reader demonstrate how reestablished puffins now the prospects for and limits of justice that existed M F No reservations required Saturdays at 2 pm the 17th through the 20th centuries and show 1960s Boston, advocating for civil rights of serve as a window onto the effects of global during Reconstruction. In his book and during the January 30 and February 27 how the study of artistic interpretation has African-American citizens living in the Southern warming. The success of the project offers talk, Rothman will offer a poignant reflection on M F Register by emailing MAPPING IN THE 21ST CENTURY significantly influenced the aims and ideals United States. hope that people can restore lost wildlife the tangled politics of slavery and the hazards that [email protected] Maps, Apps, Tools, and Beyond of these artists. populations and the habitats that support them. were faced by so many Americans on the hard road THE ILLEGAL to freedom. Lecture by Boston University Earth and Environment Professor Suchi Gopal Join us for this compelling panel featuring Ready to go birdwatching? A Novel Dennis Carr of the Museum of Fine Arts, Make an appointment to view John James To learn more about this period in American Wednesday, January 20, 6-7 pm Boston; Vivian Li of the Worcester Art Audubon’s Ornithological Biography: An Book talk with history, view our extensive Confederate imprint Registration begins January 6 at 9 am P R Members Free Non-members $15 Museum (WAM); Rachel M. Saunders of OPEN Account of the Habits of the Birds of the internationally collection, now digitized and available online Mystery & the Harvard Art Museums; and Daisy Yiyou United States of America. best-selling author through the generosity of Caleb Loring, Jr. MONDAY—THURSDAY, 9 am-8 pm We are witnessing a revolution in mapping, fueled by advances in geospatial technologies such as Wang of the Peabody Essex Museum. Lawrence Hill Mayhem GIS (Geographic Information Science), remote sensing, high resolution imagery, web mapping, FRIDAY, 9 am-5:30 pm SATURDAY, 9 am-4 pm crowd sourced data, and apps. These technologies are enabling us to capture, process, store, and Wednesday, February analyze spatial data as never before. High resolution mapping enables users to visualize museums, ! 10, 6-7 pm SUNDAY, 12 pm-4 pm homes, and buildings. New apps such as Waze can provide real-time traffic data, help users find e m EYE OF THE EXPERT AFTERNOON a d e da yu Registration begins M Members only their friend’s location, or personalize trips. Maps have become ubiquitous in our lives, constantly TEA l January 27 at 9 am Thursdays January 7 and February 4, 5:30-7:30 pm updated and produced by users, not just experts. Gopal’s lecture will focus on the applications of HOLIDAY CLOSING P Open to the public Thursday, February 11, 3-4:30 pm P R Members Free Non-members $15 Registration begins at 9 am on December 28 and January 21 these technologies in her work, the nature of spatial data, and the future of mapping. FRIDAY, January 1 Registration begins January 28, at 9 am Space is limited to 12 participants M R Members $75 10½ Circle privileges do not apply R Reception to follow Please M $75. 10½ Circle privileges do not apply The Illegal is the gripping story of Keita Ali, a Closed All Day join us. Are you a map enthusiast? View our current exhibition, Collecting for the Boston Athenæum Back by popular demand! Get up close with artworks and rare materials as members of our expert F Free event refugee―like the many in today’s headlines― in the 21st Century: Maps, Charts, & Plans, on view through February 28. compelled to leave his homeland. All Keita has staff divulge the fascinating stories behind them, including why they are historically or artistically A time-honored Athenæum tradition, complete with 10½ BEACON STREET W Wait list delicate finger sandwiches, scrumptious scones ever wanted to do is to run. Running means important, and how and why they are in the Athenæum’s collections. Each program will be } with clotted cream and jam, delectable sweet cakes, respect and wealth at home. His native presented by members of our special collections team, and will be followed by an opportunity to BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02108 www.bostonathenaeum.org savory tarts, and a selection of freshly-brewed teas. Zantoroland, an imagined country whose tyrants continue the discussion over wine and light hors d’oeuvres in the Gordon Reading Room. 617-227-0270 NEW MEMBERS’ BRIDGING THE GAP FEBRUARY is African-American History Month JANUARY The Meeting of Eastern RECEPTION Celebrate. Read. Learn. and Western Art Tuesday, February 9, 5:30-7 pm FEBRUARY are eerily familiar, turns out the fastest marathoners New members will receive an email or paper TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, HAPPY Panel discussion moderated by GO SET A WATCHMAN on earth. But after his journalist father is killed for 2016 NEW YEAR! associate professor of Art History invitation, and must RSVP by February 2. his outspoken political views, Keita must flee to the JUST for KIDS at MIT, Kristel Smentek And the “Discovery” of Racism wealthy nation of Freedom State―a fictionalized This wine-and-cheese reception offers new country engaged in a crackdown on all members an opportunity to meet expert Tuesday, January 26, 6-7:30 pm Lecture by Boston University English undocumented people, bearing a striking employees and like-minded fellow members Registration begins January 12 at 9 am Professor John T. Matthews resemblance to modern America. There, Keita of our energetic, intellectually curious MARTINI MOVIE NIGHT P R Members $15 Non-members $30 becomes a part of the new underground. He TEDDY BEARS’ PICNIC & SLEEPOVER community and explore our labyrinthine Wednesday, February 3, 6-7 pm learns what it means to live as an illegal. This building during a playful scavenger hunt. Young Patrons Sponsored Shifting trends in American taste are, in part, Registration begins January 20 at 9 am tension-filled novel casts its eye on race, human Saturday, February 27, 11 am-2pm As with all events, guests are welcome! M F Registration begins February 12 at 9 am Viewing of High Society a product of cultural exchanges between the P R Members $15 Non-members $30 potential, and what it means to belong. East and West over time. Examples of such Wednesday, January 13, 5:30 pm (reception), exchanges include the journeys of Venetian To Kill a Mockingbird is among the most cherished We’re hiring! The Boston Athenæum seeks qualified stuffed animals, action figures, and 6:30 pm (showing) painters to the Turkish court and the cultural coming-of-age stories in American literary culture, PROJECT PUFFIN BEYOND FREEDOM’S REACH dolls to work for one special night in Reference, Circulation, Security, and other library All attendees must be 21+ conflicts of our world since 9/11. The meeting and its portrait of the noble Atticus Finch, a lawyer CHILDE HASSAM The Improbable Quest to Bring a departments. Human friends are invited to join us for a brown-bag Teddy Bears’ Picnic and Registration begins December 30 at 9 am of Eastern and Western art is more than a who risks everything to defend a black man falsely A Kidnapping in the Twilight screening of Toy Story before the stuffies, lovies, and toys get to work! Human friends can M $35 At Dusk: Boston Common at Twilight synthesis; it is a process in which civilizations Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock accused of a crime in the segregated South of the of Slavery pick up their stuffies, lovies, and toys at the Circulation Desk along with pictures of all the stimulate and enrich each other. 1930s, has inspired generations of admirers. For Book talk with renowned seabird all its defense of such fundamental democratic work their stuffed friends completed overnight on Sunday, February 28, from 12-4 pm. Join us for a viewing of the 1956 musical Book talk with curator and scholar Erica Hirshler Book talk with Civil War expert and comedy High Society (Metro-Goldwyn- conservationist Stephen W. Kress principles, however, Mockingbird also has been Georgetown University Professor PRESCHOOL STORY TIME FAMILY STORY TIME Mayer), a film directed by Charles Walters and associate editor of The Boston criticized for its narrowing of questions of racial Tuesday, January 19, 12-1 pm P F No Reservations required Adam Rothman Tuesdays at 10:30 am Saturdays at 10:30 am and starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Globe Derrick Z. Jackson justice to a drama of white conscience, of historical January 5, 12, 19, 26 January 9, 16, 23, 30 Frank Sinatra. Theater snacks and light fare change to a matter of individual attitude. In this talk, the Croll Senior Curator of American Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Wednesday, February 17, 12-1 pm February 2, 9, 16, 23 February 6, 13, 20, 27 will be served with gin and vodka martinis. Thursday, February 4, 12-1 pm Boston, Erica E. Hirshler, will share excerpts of her vivid account of one of Boston’s best- P F No reservations required M F No reservations required M F No reservations required loved paintings: Childe Hassam’s At Dusk (Boston Common at Twilight), 1880. With its rosy P F No reservations required Harper Lee took several years to revise the original Do you just love show tunes? Award-winning draft of the novel that eventually appeared as rust tones, intimate familial vignette, and quiet expanse of snow-laden park, today At Dusk In this talk, Adam Rothman will share excerpts STORIES & CRAFTS YOUNG READERS’ composer Cole Porter wrote the musical score In this talk, Stephen Kress, or “The Puffin To Kill a Mockingbird. Her original manuscript, seems to encourage reflection and represent a decidedly old-fashioned city. Yet Hirshler will from Beyond Freedom’s Reach, the true story of FOR AGES 5+ BOOK GROUP for High Society, including “True Love” sung Man,” and notable journalist and nature entitled “Go Set a Watchman,” was known to reveal the ways in which the painting visually signaled the emerging modern city, from one woman’s quest to rescue her children from Wednesdays at 3:30 pm Recommended for children aged 9 to 13 by Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly. Make an photographer Derrick Jackson will share exist, but only recently did the author agree to its bondage. In the gripping, meticulously researched subtleties about women’s place in the urban landscape to the uproarious clang of the streetcars January 6, 13, 20, 27 Mondays at 6 pm appointment to view vocal and piano sheet with audience members the inspiring story publication after it was rediscovered in her papers. account, Adam Rothman lays bare the mayhem of that would have been heard on the busiest block in Boston. She will discuss her carefully February 3, 10, 17, 24 January 18 and February 22 music for seven of the songs from the film of Project Puffin, which has restored more In this lecture, John T. Matthews will discuss emancipation during and after the Civil War. After researched and elegantly presented book, which offers fresh insights into a beloved painting M F No reservations required Register by emailing in the Athenæum’s collection. than 1,000 puffin pairs to three Maine islands, with audience members how this “new” work Union forces captured New Orleans in 1862, the and an evocative glimpse of a singular moment in Boston’s history. [email protected] where they had been wiped out and alters our understanding of what Lee wanted to slave-owning De Harts fled to Havana, taking Rose STORIES, SONGS, M $3 nonexistent for more than 100 years. Kress say about the racial crisis in the South during the Herera’s three children with them. When Mary De Another viewpoint? Frank Duveneck’s painting, The Boston Common (1890, oil on canvas, AND ACTIVITIES and Jackson will share techniques that were decades of the modern civil rights movement. Hart returned to New Orleans in 1865, she was UR308), offers an intriguing counterpoint to Hassam’s parkscape. Find it above the computer Thursdays at 10:30 am LEGO®, CHESS, catalog near the circulation desk. developed during the project and have since surprised to find herself taken into custody as a been used to help restore rare and endangered January 7, 14, 21, 28 & PUZZLE CLUB This panel will offer perspectives on Curious about this period in American history? kidnapper. As Rothman will share, the case of Rose seabirds worldwide. Further, they will February 4, 11, 18, 25 Recommended for children aged 5 to 8 Western and Asian artists’ influences from Make an appointment to view handouts from Herera’s abducted children reveals to the reader demonstrate how reestablished puffins now the prospects for and limits of justice that existed M F No reservations required Saturdays at 2 pm the 17th through the 20th centuries and show 1960s Boston, advocating for civil rights of serve as a window onto the effects of global during Reconstruction. In his book and during the January 30 and February 27 how the study of artistic interpretation has African-American citizens living in the Southern warming. The success of the project offers talk, Rothman will offer a poignant reflection on M F Register by emailing MAPPING IN THE 21ST CENTURY significantly influenced the aims and ideals United States. hope that people can restore lost wildlife the tangled politics of slavery and the hazards that [email protected] Maps, Apps, Tools, and Beyond of these artists. populations and the habitats that support them. were faced by so many Americans on the hard road THE ILLEGAL to freedom. Lecture by Boston University Earth and Environment Professor Suchi Gopal Join us for this compelling panel featuring Ready to go birdwatching? A Novel Dennis Carr of the Museum of Fine Arts, Make an appointment to view John James To learn more about this period in American Wednesday, January 20, 6-7 pm Boston; Vivian Li of the Worcester Art Audubon’s Ornithological Biography: An Book talk with history, view our extensive Confederate imprint Registration begins January 6 at 9 am P R Members Free Non-members $15 Museum (WAM); Rachel M. Saunders of OPEN Account of the Habits of the Birds of the internationally collection, now digitized and available online Mystery & the Harvard Art Museums; and Daisy Yiyou United States of America. best-selling author through the generosity of Caleb Loring, Jr. MONDAY—THURSDAY, 9 am-8 pm We are witnessing a revolution in mapping, fueled by advances in geospatial technologies such as Wang of the Peabody Essex Museum. Lawrence Hill Mayhem GIS (Geographic Information Science), remote sensing, high resolution imagery, web mapping, FRIDAY, 9 am-5:30 pm SATURDAY, 9 am-4 pm crowd sourced data, and apps. These technologies are enabling us to capture, process, store, and Wednesday, February analyze spatial data as never before. High resolution mapping enables users to visualize museums, ! 10, 6-7 pm SUNDAY, 12 pm-4 pm homes, and buildings. New apps such as Waze can provide real-time traffic data, help users find e m EYE OF THE EXPERT AFTERNOON a d e da yu Registration begins M Members only their friend’s location, or personalize trips. Maps have become ubiquitous in our lives, constantly TEA l January 27 at 9 am Thursdays January 7 and February 4, 5:30-7:30 pm updated and produced by users, not just experts. Gopal’s lecture will focus on the applications of HOLIDAY CLOSING P Open to the public Thursday, February 11, 3-4:30 pm P R Members Free Non-members $15 Registration begins at 9 am on December 28 and January 21 these technologies in her work, the nature of spatial data, and the future of mapping. FRIDAY, January 1 Registration begins January 28, at 9 am Space is limited to 12 participants M R Members $75 10½ Circle privileges do not apply R Reception to follow Please M $75. 10½ Circle privileges do not apply The Illegal is the gripping story of Keita Ali, a Closed All Day join us. Are you a map enthusiast? View our current exhibition, Collecting for the Boston Athenæum Back by popular demand! Get up close with artworks and rare materials as members of our expert F Free event refugee―like the many in today’s headlines― in the 21st Century: Maps, Charts, & Plans, on view through February 28. compelled to leave his homeland. All Keita has staff divulge the fascinating stories behind them, including why they are historically or artistically A time-honored Athenæum tradition, complete with 10½ BEACON STREET W Wait list delicate finger sandwiches, scrumptious scones ever wanted to do is to run. Running means important, and how and why they are in the Athenæum’s collections. Each program will be } with clotted cream and jam, delectable sweet cakes, respect and wealth at home. His native presented by members of our special collections team, and will be followed by an opportunity to BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02108 www.bostonathenaeum.org savory tarts, and a selection of freshly-brewed teas. Zantoroland, an imagined country whose tyrants continue the discussion over wine and light hors d’oeuvres in the Gordon Reading Room. 617-227-0270 NEW MEMBERS’ BRIDGING THE GAP FEBRUARY is African-American History Month JANUARY The Meeting of Eastern RECEPTION Celebrate. Read. Learn. and Western Art Tuesday, February 9, 5:30-7 pm FEBRUARY are eerily familiar, turns out the fastest marathoners New members will receive an email or paper TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, HAPPY Panel discussion moderated by GO SET A WATCHMAN on earth. But after his journalist father is killed for 2016 NEW YEAR! associate professor of Art History invitation, and must RSVP by February 2. his outspoken political views, Keita must flee to the JUST for KIDS at MIT, Kristel Smentek And the “Discovery” of Racism wealthy nation of Freedom State―a fictionalized This wine-and-cheese reception offers new country engaged in a crackdown on all members an opportunity to meet expert Tuesday, January 26, 6-7:30 pm Lecture by Boston University English undocumented people, bearing a striking employees and like-minded fellow members Registration begins January 12 at 9 am Professor John T. Matthews resemblance to modern America. There, Keita of our energetic, intellectually curious MARTINI MOVIE NIGHT P R Members $15 Non-members $30 becomes a part of the new underground. He TEDDY BEARS’ PICNIC & SLEEPOVER community and explore our labyrinthine Wednesday, February 3, 6-7 pm learns what it means to live as an illegal. This building during a playful scavenger hunt. Young Patrons Sponsored Shifting trends in American taste are, in part, Registration begins January 20 at 9 am tension-filled novel casts its eye on race, human Saturday, February 27, 11 am-2pm As with all events, guests are welcome! M F Registration begins February 12 at 9 am Viewing of High Society a product of cultural exchanges between the P R Members $15 Non-members $30 potential, and what it means to belong. East and West over time. Examples of such Wednesday, January 13, 5:30 pm (reception), exchanges include the journeys of Venetian To Kill a Mockingbird is among the most cherished We’re hiring! The Boston Athenæum seeks qualified stuffed animals, action figures, and 6:30 pm (showing) painters to the Turkish court and the cultural coming-of-age stories in American literary culture, PROJECT PUFFIN BEYOND FREEDOM’S REACH dolls to work for one special night in Reference, Circulation, Security, and other library All attendees must be 21+ conflicts of our world since 9/11. The meeting and its portrait of the noble Atticus Finch, a lawyer CHILDE HASSAM The Improbable Quest to Bring a departments. Human friends are invited to join us for a brown-bag Teddy Bears’ Picnic and Registration begins December 30 at 9 am of Eastern and Western art is more than a who risks everything to defend a black man falsely A Kidnapping in the Twilight screening of Toy Story before the stuffies, lovies, and toys get to work! Human friends can M $35 At Dusk: Boston Common at Twilight synthesis; it is a process in which civilizations Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock accused of a crime in the segregated South of the of Slavery pick up their stuffies, lovies, and toys at the Circulation Desk along with pictures of all the stimulate and enrich each other. 1930s, has inspired generations of admirers. For Book talk with renowned seabird all its defense of such fundamental democratic work their stuffed friends completed overnight on Sunday, February 28, from 12-4 pm. Join us for a viewing of the 1956 musical Book talk with curator and scholar Erica Hirshler Book talk with Civil War expert and comedy High Society (Metro-Goldwyn- conservationist Stephen W. Kress principles, however, Mockingbird also has been Georgetown University Professor PRESCHOOL STORY TIME FAMILY STORY TIME Mayer), a film directed by Charles Walters and associate editor of The Boston criticized for its narrowing of questions of racial Tuesday, January 19, 12-1 pm P F No Reservations required Adam Rothman Tuesdays at 10:30 am Saturdays at 10:30 am and starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Globe Derrick Z. Jackson justice to a drama of white conscience, of historical January 5, 12, 19, 26 January 9, 16, 23, 30 Frank Sinatra. Theater snacks and light fare change to a matter of individual attitude. In this talk, the Croll Senior Curator of American Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Wednesday, February 17, 12-1 pm February 2, 9, 16, 23 February 6, 13, 20, 27 will be served with gin and vodka martinis. Thursday, February 4, 12-1 pm Boston, Erica E. Hirshler, will share excerpts of her vivid account of one of Boston’s best- P F No reservations required M F No reservations required M F No reservations required loved paintings: Childe Hassam’s At Dusk (Boston Common at Twilight), 1880. With its rosy P F No reservations required Harper Lee took several years to revise the original Do you just love show tunes? Award-winning draft of the novel that eventually appeared as rust tones, intimate familial vignette, and quiet expanse of snow-laden park, today At Dusk In this talk, Adam Rothman will share excerpts STORIES & CRAFTS YOUNG READERS’ composer Cole Porter wrote the musical score In this talk, Stephen Kress, or “The Puffin To Kill a Mockingbird. Her original manuscript, seems to encourage reflection and represent a decidedly old-fashioned city. Yet Hirshler will from Beyond Freedom’s Reach, the true story of FOR AGES 5+ BOOK GROUP for High Society, including “True Love” sung Man,” and notable journalist and nature entitled “Go Set a Watchman,” was known to reveal the ways in which the painting visually signaled the emerging modern city, from one woman’s quest to rescue her children from Wednesdays at 3:30 pm Recommended for children aged 9 to 13 by Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly. Make an photographer Derrick Jackson will share exist, but only recently did the author agree to its bondage. In the gripping, meticulously researched subtleties about women’s place in the urban landscape to the uproarious clang of the streetcars January 6, 13, 20, 27 Mondays at 6 pm appointment to view vocal and piano sheet with audience members the inspiring story publication after it was rediscovered in her papers. account, Adam Rothman lays bare the mayhem of that would have been heard on the busiest block in Boston. She will discuss her carefully February 3, 10, 17, 24 January 18 and February 22 music for seven of the songs from the film of Project Puffin, which has restored more In this lecture, John T. Matthews will discuss emancipation during and after the Civil War. After researched and elegantly presented book, which offers fresh insights into a beloved painting M F No reservations required Register by emailing in the Athenæum’s collection. than 1,000 puffin pairs to three Maine islands, with audience members how this “new” work Union forces captured New Orleans in 1862, the and an evocative glimpse of a singular moment in Boston’s history. [email protected] where they had been wiped out and alters our understanding of what Lee wanted to slave-owning De Harts fled to Havana, taking Rose STORIES, SONGS, M $3 nonexistent for more than 100 years. Kress say about the racial crisis in the South during the Herera’s three children with them. When Mary De Another viewpoint? Frank Duveneck’s painting, The Boston Common (1890, oil on canvas, AND ACTIVITIES and Jackson will share techniques that were decades of the modern civil rights movement. Hart returned to New Orleans in 1865, she was UR308), offers an intriguing counterpoint to Hassam’s parkscape. Find it above the computer Thursdays at 10:30 am LEGO®, CHESS, catalog near the circulation desk. developed during the project and have since surprised to find herself taken into custody as a been used to help restore rare and endangered January 7, 14, 21, 28 & PUZZLE CLUB This panel will offer perspectives on Curious about this period in American history? kidnapper. As Rothman will share, the case of Rose seabirds worldwide. Further, they will February 4, 11, 18, 25 Recommended for children aged 5 to 8 Western and Asian artists’ influences from Make an appointment to view handouts from Herera’s abducted children reveals to the reader demonstrate how reestablished puffins now the prospects for and limits of justice that existed M F No reservations required Saturdays at 2 pm the 17th through the 20th centuries and show 1960s Boston, advocating for civil rights of serve as a window onto the effects of global during Reconstruction. In his book and during the January 30 and February 27 how the study of artistic interpretation has African-American citizens living in the Southern warming. The success of the project offers talk, Rothman will offer a poignant reflection on M F Register by emailing MAPPING IN THE 21ST CENTURY significantly influenced the aims and ideals United States. hope that people can restore lost wildlife the tangled politics of slavery and the hazards that [email protected] Maps, Apps, Tools, and Beyond of these artists. populations and the habitats that support them. were faced by so many Americans on the hard road THE ILLEGAL to freedom. Lecture by Boston University Earth and Environment Professor Suchi Gopal Join us for this compelling panel featuring Ready to go birdwatching? A Novel Dennis Carr of the Museum of Fine Arts, Make an appointment to view John James To learn more about this period in American Wednesday, January 20, 6-7 pm Boston; Vivian Li of the Worcester Art Audubon’s Ornithological Biography: An Book talk with history, view our extensive Confederate imprint Registration begins January 6 at 9 am P R Members Free Non-members $15 Museum (WAM); Rachel M. Saunders of OPEN Account of the Habits of the Birds of the internationally collection, now digitized and available online Mystery & the Harvard Art Museums; and Daisy Yiyou United States of America. best-selling author through the generosity of Caleb Loring, Jr. MONDAY—THURSDAY, 9 am-8 pm We are witnessing a revolution in mapping, fueled by advances in geospatial technologies such as Wang of the Peabody Essex Museum. Lawrence Hill Mayhem GIS (Geographic Information Science), remote sensing, high resolution imagery, web mapping, FRIDAY, 9 am-5:30 pm SATURDAY, 9 am-4 pm crowd sourced data, and apps. These technologies are enabling us to capture, process, store, and Wednesday, February analyze spatial data as never before. High resolution mapping enables users to visualize museums, ! 10, 6-7 pm SUNDAY, 12 pm-4 pm homes, and buildings. New apps such as Waze can provide real-time traffic data, help users find e m EYE OF THE EXPERT AFTERNOON a d e da yu Registration begins M Members only their friend’s location, or personalize trips. Maps have become ubiquitous in our lives, constantly TEA l January 27 at 9 am Thursdays January 7 and February 4, 5:30-7:30 pm updated and produced by users, not just experts. Gopal’s lecture will focus on the applications of HOLIDAY CLOSING P Open to the public Thursday, February 11, 3-4:30 pm P R Members Free Non-members $15 Registration begins at 9 am on December 28 and January 21 these technologies in her work, the nature of spatial data, and the future of mapping. FRIDAY, January 1 Registration begins January 28, at 9 am Space is limited to 12 participants M R Members $75 10½ Circle privileges do not apply R Reception to follow Please M $75. 10½ Circle privileges do not apply The Illegal is the gripping story of Keita Ali, a Closed All Day join us. Are you a map enthusiast? View our current exhibition, Collecting for the Boston Athenæum Back by popular demand! Get up close with artworks and rare materials as members of our expert F Free event refugee―like the many in today’s headlines― in the 21st Century: Maps, Charts, & Plans, on view through February 28. compelled to leave his homeland. All Keita has staff divulge the fascinating stories behind them, including why they are historically or artistically A time-honored Athenæum tradition, complete with 10½ BEACON STREET W Wait list delicate finger sandwiches, scrumptious scones ever wanted to do is to run. Running means important, and how and why they are in the Athenæum’s collections. Each program will be } with clotted cream and jam, delectable sweet cakes, respect and wealth at home. His native presented by members of our special collections team, and will be followed by an opportunity to BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02108 www.bostonathenaeum.org savory tarts, and a selection of freshly-brewed teas. Zantoroland, an imagined country whose tyrants continue the discussion over wine and light hors d’oeuvres in the Gordon Reading Room. 617-227-0270 COLLECTIONS CORNER PETITE FEET VOICES BEYOND Recently Acquired A Concert in Celebration BONDAGE of Artist Allan Rohan Crite An Anthology of Verse BOSTON ATHENÆUM by African Americans JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2016 NOW ON VIEW Concert with jazz ensemble Petite Feet The Athenæum recently acquired Interior with Figure, Antwerp by of the 19th Century Otto Grundmann. Grundmann, who had his earliest artistic training in Tuesday, February 23, 6-7 pm his native Dresden, came to America in 1876 to accept the directorship Registration begins February 9 at 9 am Book talk with literary scholars Erika DeSimone and Fidel Louis of the new School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He served P R Members $15 Non-members $30 in that role, and as a highly respected teacher, until his death in 1890. Thursday, February 25, 6-7 pm He specialized in genre painting (scenes of everyday life) in the Prolific Boston artist Allan Rohan Crite Registration begins February 11 at 9 am tradition of seventeenth-century Dutch masters such as Vermeer. created an extensive body of work featuring R Members Free Non-Members $15 This recent acquisition, the first painting by this important Boston the daily life of ordinary African Americans. P artist to enter the Athenæum’s collection, is in every way In celebration of his work, and in collabora- Voices Beyond Bondage: An Anthology of characteristic of his work. The painting can be viewed in the tion with the New England Conservatory’s Verse by African Americans of the 19th sitting room off the hallway leading to the Children’s Library. Community Performances and Partnerships Century is a collection of 150 poems culled PICTURING Program, the Boston Athenæum is proud to from burgeoning black-owned newspapers present jazz ensemble Petite Feet. Petite Feet FREDERICK DOUGLASS of the era, and offers a fresh perspective on will respond musically to a selection of Crite’s African-American life and identity. These An Illustrated Biography of works from the Athenæum’s collection. poems are penned mostly by everyday people the Nineteenth Century’s Most DOWN IN THE DUMPS compelled to write—despite being born into a NEWS YOU CAN USE View a selection of Crite’s watercolors and Reader to Reader Recs Photographed American world of fundamental inequity. Whether these drawings online, and see his paintings authors were formally schooled or self-taught, on view in the Bornheimer Room and In Athenæum jargon, the “dump” refers to the IMAGING STUDIO In celebration of the relocation of the Imaging Book talk with best-selling author whether they were slaves, free people, or the Membership Office. re-shelving area on every floor. Members in Studio (formerly called the Digital Lab) to the second floor of 10½ and Harvard University Professor descendants of slaves, African Americans put THE RACE for THE WHITE HOUSE in 2016 the know have been perusing these shelves Beacon Street, Patricia Boulos, Head of Digital Programs, and her team of English and African American ink to paper and declared their passions in Studies John Stauffer This program is supported, in part, by a grant for years. Can’t make it into the building for will host informal, drop-in open studio sessions on Tuesday, January verse. Until now, these poems—and an entire The New Hampshire Primary and Beyond from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, this serendipitous search? Don’t fret. View our 19, from 1:30-4:30 pm and Wednesday, January 20, from 4-6 pm. All literary movement—were lost to modern Are you a Monday, February 22, 6-7 pm a state agency. weekly list on the “Book Recommendations” members are encouraged to stop by and learn more about the Imaging readers. A panel discussion with The Boston Globe political reporters Shira T. Center, Registration begins February 8 at 9 am POLITICAL page under the “Library” tab of the website for Studio, where colleagues create the online images that bring our rarest Akilah Johnson, Annie Linskey, Jim O’Sullivan, James Pindell, and Matthew Viser Members $15 these Reader to Reader Recommendations. collections before the world. As visitors will learn, the new studio M R Can’t get enough poetry? Discover the poetry HISTORY offers optimal climate and security controls, and ideal proximity to of Phillis Wheatley, the first Black poet in Thursday, January 21, 6-7 pm, Tremont Temple, 88 Tremont Street, Boston JUNKIE? In this talk, John Stauffer will share with us Recent titles found down rare materials storerooms. America to publish a book, in the Athenæum’s M F R Registration begins December 28 at 9 am excerpts and images from Picturing Frederick in the dumps, include: circulating and special collections. PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE CHECKLIST For the first time Douglass, a work that promises to revolution- Political reporters from The Boston Globe will discuss one of the most unpredictable presidential Check out our collection races in a generation. Just days before Iowa and New Hampshire voters make their picks for the Walker, Alice foreword ever, complete illustrated checklists of the Athenæum’s collections ize our knowledge of race and photography of 19th-century political presidential nominees, top political journalists from the Pulitzer-prize winning news organization and illustration by Shiloh of paintings and sculpture are available online — a first step towards in 19th-century America. Stauffer will paint ballots, available in the PROPRIETORS’ ANNUAL will convene for a panel on the campaigns they have been covering for the last year. Who will win McCloud. Hard Times our long-term goal of making a searchable online catalogue available a picture of Frederick Douglass as a leading Digital Collections the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary? Will the victors be the eventual nominees? Require Furious Dancing: to members and researchers around the world. The art lists appear in a pioneer in photography, both as a stately MEETING section of our website. Tuesday, February 16, 3:45 pm M R F And how will this influence who wins the White House in 2016? New Poems, Library of sidebar on the “Paintings & Sculpture” page under the “Collections” subject and as a prescient theorist who believed in the explosive social power of Congress Classification tab of the website. Proprietors will receive an email or paper invitation. PS3573.A425 H37 2010 what was then just a nascent art form. DIRECTOR’S NOTE ART PERIODICALS The organization of art periodicals is complete! Proprietors of the Boston Athenæum are invited to Interested in viewing some of Stauffer’s Readers will find their favorites in an attractive, well-organized, and the 2016 Annual Meeting. A reception will follow. “The horizon leans forward, Offering you space to place new steps of change.” primary source materials first-hand? Make freshly painted space outside the Upper Pilgrim elevator, just steps Guests are welcome to join the reception. For more Maya Angelou (from The Rock Cries Out Today) an appointment to view our 1865 Merrill & IN THE GALLERIES from their former location in the art reference section. information, please contact Catherine McGrath at Crosby photograph of Frederick Douglass. Happy New Year! At the Athenæum, 2016 offers fresh expanses for the intellect 617-720-7661 or [email protected]. and the imagination. A panel of Boston Globe journalists will assess the Collecting for the Boston Athenæum in the 21st PHONE BOOTHS Looking for a place to sneak away to make a phone presidential primaries; an MFA curator will reinterpret a beloved masterpiece; Century: Maps, Charts, & Plans brings together call? Try out our vintage phone booths repurposed as mobile phone use a geographer-neuroscientist will consider mapping in the age of GPS; a Harper an exquisite selection of materials from the stations that have been installed in the hallway leading to the Children’s Lee scholar will discuss Go Set a Watchman; a jazz ensemble will pay tribute institution’s rich cartographic collection. The Library. Phone calls can also be placed in the vestibule of the building. CLEMENS TEUFEL to the visual art of Allan Rohan Crite; our digital team will welcome members GLIMPSED third in a series, the exhibition celebrates the Talking on mobile phones is prohibited elsewhere in the building, and A classical piano concert featuring the works of Gershwin and Hanson to their new lab; and anthology editors will read poems by 19th-century AT 10½ Athenæum’s robust acquisitions program and on the terraces. African-Americans. showcases more than 50 objects that have been Sunday, February 28, 1-2 pm added to the collection since the year 2000. NEW FACES The Athenæum is pleased to welcome the following Registration begins February 12 at 9 am P R Members $15 Non-Members $30 colleagues: Alyssa Garcia, Development Intern, and Graham Skinner, The exhibition of Maps, Charts, & Plans is complemented by a new presentation During last month’s “Eye of the Expert: in the Sitting Room. Washington Allston paintings enliven the Children’s Library An Evening of Mystery and Mayhem” GALLERY TALKS with Curator of Maps Cataloging Assistant (formerly a Digital Programs Intern). In his solo debut concert, Clemens Teufel will feature the colorful compositions of neo-romantic corridor, and portrait miniatures appear in the Art Department. At times when program, Stanley Ellis Cushing, John Lannon are limited to 15 participants. master composer, Hanson, and the swing and glamour of the all-time favorite, Gershwin. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Clemens Teufel received his first piano lessons at the age of seven. Described winter weather complicates a visit, our website offers a respite from cabin fever. Anne C. and David J. Bromer Curator From event recordings to electronic resources—which now include Oxford Music of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Wednesday, January 13, 11 am-12 pm as “Red-hot German Pianist” by the Cape Ann Beacon and commended for “incredibly sensitive Online—to complete illustrated checklists of the art collection, there’s always discusses a print of the front elevation Registration begins December 30 at 9 am playing” by the Weilheimer Tagblatt, Teufel started his education at the University Franz Liszt in something new to discover. of the Massachusetts State Prison in Wednesday, February 10, 2-3 pm Weimar and completed his studies at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts in Charlestown where James Allen (alias Registration begins January 27 at 9 am the masterclass of Professor Lev Natochenny. Elizabeth E. Barker, Ph.D. George Walton), the highwayman of M F www.bostonathenaeum.org This program is supported, in part, by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. Stanford Calderwood Director the BA’s infamous “Skin Book,” died.