Boston Athenaeum

Lewis Lapham: Mixed Media
Lewis H. Lapham
April 29, 2009
00:58:49
Harper's Magazine editor Lewis Lapham observes that the media these days speak in so many forked and foreign tongues - film, book, video game, broadcast, blog - that without a dictionary or a concordance it is hard to know who is saying what to whom.
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Charles Burnett
April 2, 2009
00:46:24
The creators of the 2003 documentary Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property discuss their film, which analyzes Nat Turner's slave rebellion of 1831 and its aftermath in American memory.
Vanderwarker's Pantheon
Peter Vanderwarker
March 24, 2009
00:49:51
Peter Vanderwarker discusses his exhibition of photographs of iconic Boston buildings and portraits of people who currently shape the city's intellectual, architectural, and environmental culture.
Museum of Fine Arts in a Time of Transformation
Malcolm Rogers
February 5, 2009
01:06:09
Malcolm Rogers, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, describes the MFA's extensive and visionary project, Building the New MFA.
Rafael Campo: The Enemy
Rafael Campo
February 4, 2009
00:34:19
Rafael Campo, the poet and physician, speaks about his newest book of poetry, The Enemy.
Poetry at Noon: Susan Bullock
Susan Bullock
January 7, 2009
00:23:26
Susan Bullock reads from her poetry, which explores faith, hope, love, despair, and the lifeline of language, plunging into the depths of being and the complexities of life.
The Widow Clicquot: The Champagne Empire
Tilar Mazzeo
December 16, 2008
01:03:23
Tilar Mazzeo tells the story of Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin, the legendary veuve (widow) of Veuve Clicquot champagne.
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Whose Library? The Athenaeum's Dilemma
John Brereton
December 3, 2008
00:47:54
John Brereton, executive director of the Calderwood Writing Initiative, gives an overview of the different grants given out by the Calderwood Writing Initiative to New England schools and colleges. Katherine Wolff's lecture, "Whose Library? The Athenaeum's Dilemma", follows.