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Tag Archives: Boston Public Library
BPL Gets Some Love from NYT
The Boston Public Library got a spotlight dance in Saturday’s New York Times. Breaking Out of the Library Mold, in Boston and Beyond BOSTON — An old joke about libraries goes like this: A boy walks into a library and asks … Continue reading
Dead Blogging The Annual Druker Lecture At The BPL
The Boston Public Library’s terrific Building Boston “citywide celebration of Boston’s public spaces” (which includes the fascinating Palaces for the People exhibit, reviewed here by the hardlooking staff), notched another success with yesterday’s Druker lecture – Celebrating Art and Design … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbey Room, Blur Building, Boston Public Library, BPL, Broad Museum, Building Boston, Culture Shed, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Druker Lecture, Elizabeth Diller, Hirshhorn, ICA, Museum of Image and Sound, New York High Line, Palaces for the People, Rio de Janeiro, Swiss Expo 2002
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Dead Blogging ‘Palaces for the People’ At The BPL
Well the Missus and I trundled downtown yesterday to catch Blink! at Faneuil Hall Marketplace, which was lots of fun, and Palaces for the People at the Boston Public Library, which was even more eye-catching. The exhibit features the amazing … Continue reading
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Tagged Blink!, Boston Public Library, Faneuil Hall, Look Up!, McKim, Mead and White, Palaces for the People, Rafael Guastavino
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Dead Blogging ‘America Votes’ At The BPL
So the Missus and I trundled down to the Boston Public Library to catch America Votes: Mapping the Political Landscape. And it’s a corker. Starter kit: It just gets more convoluted from there. Don’t miss it.
Dead Blogging reThink Ink At The BPL
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Boston Public Library to catch reThink Ink: 25 Years at Mixit Print Studio, and, boy, it was swell. From the Mixit Print Studio website (the BPL site is inexplicably down): “By … Continue reading
Steve Schwartz Did NOT Miss His Last WGBH Radio Show
Last Friday the hardworking staff worried that Steve Schwartz might be aced out of his final WGBH Jazz from Studio Four show. He was not. And Steve produced a sweet swan song. Sometime around 10 pm he said something like … Continue reading
Dead Blogging Jonathan Franzen At The BPL
America’s Litt-It Guy Jonathan Franzen entered a banged-out Rabb Lecture Hall at the Boston Public Library Saturday afternoon and tried to move the podium to the center of the stage. Unsuccessfully. Undaunted, Franzen proceeded to read the “Mistakes Were Made” … Continue reading
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Tagged All Things Considered, Boston Public Library, Bright Eyes, Freedom, Guy Raz, Jonathan Franzen, Litt-It Guy, Time, Tina Fey
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