The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library is a non-profit membership library in La Jolla, a community in San Diego, California. In 1884, a group of La Jolla women established the La Jolla Reading Room. By 1898, a reading room was constructed on the corner...
Galia Linn (born November 15, 1963) is an Israeli-American sculptor, painter, and installation artist based in Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in LA Weekly, KCET Artbound, Art + Cake, and KCRW’s Art Talk and addressed themes including...
The Athenæum was a British literary magazine published in London, England, from 1828 to 1921. It absorbed The Literary Chronicle and Weekly Review (1819–1828) and was published as The Athenæum and Literary Chronicle for the first few volumes. In...
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Acadamh-chiùil Rìoghail na h-Alba), formerly the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (Scottish Gaelic: Acadamaidh Rìoghail Ciùil is Dràma na h-Alba) is a conservatoire of dance, drama,...
A subscription library (or membership library) is a library that is financed by private funds either from membership fees or endowments. Historically, they are predecessors to the public library as it is known today. Unlike a public library, access...
The Boston Athenæum is one of the oldest independent libraries in the United States. It is a membership library, for which patrons pay a yearly subscription fee to use Athenæum services. The institution was founded in 1807 by the Anthology Club of...
Beth Accomando is an American film and theatre critic for KPBS, who formerly worked as an arts reporter for NPR, XETV and The Star-News. She hosts the Cinema Junkie podcast and has curated several film events throughout San Diego County. Accomando...
The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, located at 219 S. 6th Street between St. James Place and Locust Street in the Society Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a special collections membership library and museum founded in 1814. The Athenaeum's...
William Lumpkins (1909–2000) was an American artist and architect best known for his abstract watercolors and pioneering solar adobe architecture. He was a founding member of the Transcendental Painting Group and cofounder of the Santa Fe Art...