Upcoming Events at the Boston Athenæum

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All events are for members only unless otherwise noted.

May 2013

21 Tuesday Noon Book Talk , Margalit Fox, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

22 Wednesday Noon Lecture, Kathryn Greenthal, Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s Shaw Memorial: Its Creation and Its Context 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

23 Thursday SOLD OUT. Gallery Talk, Brilliant Beginnings: The Athenæum and the Museum in Boston 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

25 Saturday Library Closed 8:30 am - 8:30 am

27 Monday Library Closed 8:30 am - 8:30 am

29 Wednesday Lecture, James Reid-Cunningham, Inherent Vice 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

30 Thursday Spring Concert Series, Aaron Jackson, piano. Jackson: Out of the Hands of Children/Schumann: selections from Album for the Young 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

June 2013

3 Monday First Mondays, Archive 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

4 Tuesday Book Talk, Louis Begley, Schmidt Steps Back 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

5 Wednesday Reprise, Book Talk, Hina Hirayama, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

8 Saturday Spring Concert Series, Aaron Jackson, piano. John Cage: Etudes Australes, Book IV. Prelude (after EA I-III) + EA IV + Mapping the Sky IV 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

12 Wednesday Lecture and Concert, Paula Matthews, Stanford Calderwood Director and Librarian, Aaron Jackson, piano. “Too Much Beethoven”: Domestic Music-Making in the 19th Century 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

13 Thursday Noon Book Talk, Roxana Robinson, Sparta: A Novel 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

15 Saturday Concert, Piano Trio Program: Dvorak: "Dumky" Trio/Jackson Piano Trio 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

18 Tuesday Book Talk in Collaboration with Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, Gil Schafer, The Great American House: Tradition for the Way We Live Now 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

22 Saturday Spring Concert Series, Aaron Jackson, piano. John Cage: Etudes Australes, Books I-IV complete (extended length concert) 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

25 Tuesday Noon Book Talk, Joshua C. Kendall, America’s Obsessives: The Compulsive Energy that Built a Nation 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

27 Thursday Book Talk, Ibis Sánchez-Serrano, The World’s Health Care Crisis: From the Laboratory Bench to the Patient’s Bedside 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

July 2013

4 Thursday Library Closed 8:30 am - 8:30 am

25 Thursday SOLD OUT. Gallery Talk, Brilliant Beginnings: The Athenæum and the Museum in Boston 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

August 2013

31 Saturday Library Closed 8:00 am - 8:00 am

September 2013

2 Monday Library Closed 8:30 am - 8:30 am

October 2013

14 Monday Library Closed 8:30 am - 8:30 am

November 2013

11 Monday Library Closed 8:30 am - 8:30 am

27 Wednesday Library Closes early, at 5:30 p.m. 5:30 pm - 5:30 pm

28 Thursday Library Closed 8:30 am - 8:30 am

29 Friday Library Closed 8:30 am - 8:30 am