Architecture is art at its most imposing. Buildings are solid and enduring and, especially in cities, they loom. Unlike the ...

In the Trustees’ Room of the Boston Athenaeum, around 230 books once belonging to President George Washington rest in a glass and wooden bookcase. Among the volumes: Masonic sermons, agricultural ...

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The Springfield Chamber Players will continue its 2025 Westfield Athenaeum season with the debut performance of the Springfield Chamber Players' Oboe Quartet.

Hinya Hirayam is an art historian and curator with a specialty in American art and Boston's cultural history of the nineteenth century. She received a B.A. from Amherst College and a Ph.D. in American ...