Art and Architecture Tour of the Boston Public Library
Cynthia Stewart
Wed Jan 16, 06-07:30pm, EVENT FULL
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 11-Jan-2002
Limited to 20 participants.
Single session event
Come tour the Boston Public Library (BPL) in Copley Square, one of America's architectural treasures. Designed by McKim, Mead and White and completed in 1895, the magnificent Renaissance Revival building marries art with architecture. In addition to mosaics, wall paintings, and murals, you'll see features made of nearly 20 varieties of marble. View the murals by Pierre Puvis de Chauvannes, John Singer Sargent, and Edwin Austin Abbey. Also see the work of Augustus St. Gaudens, Federick MacMonnies, and Daniel Chester French, among others.
Contact: Cynthia Stewart, 1-281, x3-9723, stewart@mit.edu
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Where Are We From And Where Are We Going?
Prof. Penny Chisholm, Prof. Martin Polz
Tue Jan 22 thru Fri Jan 25, 02:30-05:30pm, 48-316
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Evolution is one of the most powerful and misunderstood ideas emerging from. Come see the highly acclaimed PBS (WGBH/NOVA) series on Evolution. It is an 8-hour series (shown in 4 two-hour blocks) covering all dimensions of this profound phenomenon: Darwin's life and revolutionary theory; the origins of diversity and the emergence of humans; extinctions--past and present; what world will we leave our descendants?; the evolutionary arms race and human health; the origins of sex; the emergence of the modern human mind and its consequences; the struggle between science and religion; and much more. Viewings are from 2:30-4:30 p.m., followed by a discussion from 4:30-5:30 p.m. The schedule for any given session is on Prof. Chisholm's web site.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/chisholm/www/
Contact: Prof. Penny Chisholm, 48-425, x3-1771, chisholm@mit.edu
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