1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:02,480 Speaker 1: There are more than one hundred pieces from the Library's 2 00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:06,280 Speaker 1: collection in this exhibition, painting, sculptures, photographs, drawings from the 3 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:09,840 Speaker 1: early seventeen hundreds to the present day, all displayed on 4 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 1: scaffolding and plywood. This is lead curator Kristin Parker. 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:16,880 Speaker 2: It smells like home depot. That is very intentional. 6 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,239 Speaker 3: We wanted to lean into the idea that democracy is 7 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 3: always under construction and that we build off the legacies 8 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 3: of the people who have come before us to push 9 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:31,800 Speaker 3: for change and try to improve the conditions for people's 10 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:33,280 Speaker 3: quality of life. 11 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 1: The exhibition is called Revolution, two hundred and fifty Years 12 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:38,720 Speaker 1: of Art and Activism in Boston. It opens to the 13 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 1: public on Thursday from the Central Library and Copley Square. 14 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 1: Carl Stevens WBC Boston's news radio