The Boston Public Library was dealt a great injustice recently, as some idiot decided to vandalize its Copley Square facade. Though that shameful paint job was quickly removed, the thought of it ...

Previously: The Boston Public Library’s main branch in Copley Square was vandalized early Wednesday morning. Crews are working to remove the mostly white spray-paint graffiti from the facade of ...

Library leaders and critics agree that much of the public does not know what lies behind the 19th-century facade of the library’s historic McKim Building in Copley Square.

Boston Public Library, Main Buildings 700 Boylston St. ... The Johnson Building, designed by Phillip Johnson, is much more modern, but built with a level facade of the same material for continuity.

Even Philip Johnson had to admit it: The lobby of his Boston Public Library building didn’t turn out quite right. The renowned architect, who designed the 1972 addition to the library’s ...

Laura Irmscher, the Boston Public Library's chief of collections strategy, displays Albrecht Dürer’s 1504 engraving "Adam and Eve.” It's estimated that the engraving, one of the two pieces ...

— Boston Public Library (@BPLBoston) June 4, 2015. The Dürer work is valued at about $600,000, according to the library, while the Rembrandt self-portrait is valued at $20,000 to $30,000.