Declared “Photographer’s Row” in 1914 by Photo-Era Magazine, Boylston Street bustled with artists of all media in the decades just before and after the turn of the 20th century. With the Museum of Fine Arts and the Boston Public Library…
By David Curcio George Bellows said, “I don’t know anything about boxing, I am just painting two men trying to kill each other.” What underlies the attraction to such violence? As a reenactment of Freud’s postlapsarian, atavistic death instinct outlined…
I remember why I wrote that short paper on Maya Lin for my Introduction to Architecture course in college. I wrote it because I admired Lin’s resiliency during the moments leading up to and after the completion of the…
A little less than four years ago when it was suggested that I use Twitter for work purposes, I immediately shrugged and didn’t give it a chance. Fast forward to two years later, I joined Twitter mostly to promote my…
Robert Campbell doesn’t lecture very often, but when he does, he packs the house. Boston’s own Pulitzer-winning architecture critic delighted and mesmerized the audience during a lecture held at the Boston Public Library on Tuesday November 13. Campbell joined notable…
The Boston Public Library has been organizing some very exciting events for years, but none more exciting than Building Boston—a citywide celebration of Boston’s public spaces. According to the BPL Building Boston website, this celebration “explores the stories behind the…