Built around the young Bach's trek on foot to study with Buxtehude, this Baroque program sets works by both composers beside other masters, played by cello, violin and harpsichord.
Staten Islander Janet Medoro walks through the hand-drawn Revolutionary War map made by Historic Richmond Town's founder, Loring McMillen, a close look at the island's 18th century past.
An author talk and book discussion on a playhouse fire that destroyed one of the city's most prominent theaters in half an hour and killed nearly 300 people.
An exhibition tracing New York fashion in the early 1980s through the lens of PS1, a focused look at one short, restless stretch of the city's style history.
An author-led conversation on gothic folklore: haunted houses, restless spirits, buried secrets, and the unsettling legends that reveal far more than a taste for the macabre.
Two decades of excavation are used to argue for a fundamental rethinking of how precolonial African states formed, looking at elites, trade, technology and governance in the archaeological record.
A look at firearms, swords, and powder horns as fine craftsmanship, their engraving and ornament set against their violent purpose, and at how museums care for such objects.
A talk on small Renaissance bronze figures, long prized by collectors, and how their makers and subjects were forgotten or confused, with some mistaken for actual antiquities.
A talk on ancient Jewish prayer that looks past liturgy to the amulets and phylacteries worn on strings and cords, and how they tied supplicants' minds, hearts, and bodies to devotion.
