https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jIqxq2_dH4 Edward S. Cooke, Jr., renowned art historian of Yale University, is joined by Harvard University art historian Suzanne Blier in a conversation on Ned’s newest book Global Objects: Towards a Connected Art History. The two renowned art historians will discuss objects that transcend geographic boundaries and challenge our ideas about what is and is […]

https://youtube.com/live/qJUb2R7bUhU?feature=share Diana Greenwald, William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collection at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and author of Painting By Numbers, joins us for a conversation on 19th century art production. Using new quantitative evidence on five hundred thousand works of art, she examines the extent to which art historians have focused on […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WabLWhx_DbQ Lauret Savoy, the David B. Truman Professor of Environmental Studies & Geology at Mount Holyoke College and a woman of African American, Euro-American, and Indigenous ancestry, joins us for a conversation on her award-winning book Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape. Through personal journeys and historical inquiry, Professor Savoy explores how America’s […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rwHTVkATjA Considerable attention has been paid to male furniture-makers and the glory of their work in museum collections like the Concord Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Women, too, served an important part in the furniture industry and the development of utilitarian and decorative forms. Join Alyce Perry Englund, Associate Curator of American Decorative […]

Many of the works of art in the Concord Free Public Library’s collection and displayed at the Concord Museum were made by, of, and for Concordians. Join a Concord Museum Guide on a walking tour that delves into the lives of the artists and into subjects featured in the special exhibition A Perpetual Invitation: 150 […]

Thank you for your interest in our programs. This program is full. Join the Concord Museum’s curator, David Wood, in a program in which participants will look behind the dial of clocks in the Museum’s collection for insights into the 17th century technology that underlies 18th century clock production in Concord. In the unique setting […]

https://youtube.com/live/TY3lrLkheFc?feature=share Robert Pinsky, Poet Laureate of the United States from 1997 – 2000, joins us for a reading and conversation on writing, teaching, and poetry’s place in the world.  It was said of Robert Pinsky in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, “No other living American poet—no other living American, probably—has done so much […]