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  • A Writer's Christmas: Dickens & More

    November 21, 2017–January 8, 2018
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    Now on display, from the Library's Berg Collection of English and American Literature, are examples of several different kinds of…

    Pages from a copy of 'A Christmas Carol' belonging to Charles Dickens is shown. The pages are covered with performance annotations and edits written by Dickens himself.

  • 140 Years of Grooved Media: Highlights from the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives

    March 27–December 4, 2017
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

    A current case exhibit on the third floor of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts features a selection of grooved media…

    Historic photo of a grooved media machine

  • The Russian Revolution: American Perspectives

    November 8–November 9, 2017
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    The New York Public Library’s Russian materials are an important part of its rich collection on Slavic history. This display,…

    A stylized drawing of a line of people all wearing caps and holding large red flags with cyrillic script written on them. In the corner figures wearing top hats and suits flea.

  • Sources of Inspiration: Celebrating Library Lions 2017

    October 17–November 5, 2017
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    Each fall at its Library Lions gala, The New York Public Library celebrates the exceptional men and women who have forever changed the…

    Patience, one of the stone lion sculptures in front of New York Public Library, is shown

  • Hilary Knight’s Stage Struck World

    April 25–October 14, 2017
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

    Hilary Knight’s stage-struck life is the subject of a comprehensive exhibition that includes original artwork for posters; theatrical…

    A stylized of a man sketching in a large notepad is shown. As the man draws pages fly off and turn into birds

  • Radical Bodies: Anna Halprin, Simone Forti, and Yvonne Rainer in California and

    May 24–September 16, 2017
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

    Radical Bodies examines the artistic relationships between Halprin, Forti, and Rainer, shedding light on each artist’s…

    Three dancers are shown laying in a line, across on an outdoor wooden floor in a black and white photograph. Two dancers have their arms outstretched, the third props their body up partially with a large curved tree branch.

  • Drawn from the Clouds: Mid-Century Airline Pictorial Maps

    April 15–September 11, 2017
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    This display features cartographic works selected from the Library's collection of over 1,800 pictorial maps and focuses on the use of…

    A large airplane is shown with misty cloud cover above and expansive landscape below, in a fading painted postcard from 1946

  • Love in Venice

    February 10–August 26, 2017
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    This exhibition at The New York Public Library will examine the literary, artistic, musical and cultural aspects of Venice’s…

    An etching of a young Venetian woman smiling while resting her head in her hand is overlayed with gold ornamental spirals on one side and the words 'Love in Venice'

  • World War I: A New York Perspective

    June 30–July 10, 2017
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    One hundred years ago, when the United States entered World War I on April 6, 1917, New York City answered the nation’s patriotic…

    In a historic photo, soldiers holding bayonets are shown above and within a trench . Some soldiers are climbing ladders out of the trench while other wait in line for their turn.

  • Viewpoints: Latin America in Photographs

    March 24–July 2, 2017
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    Viewpoints: Latin America in Photographs exhibits over 100 images from the 1860s through the present. Presented in…

    A young woman is shown with a large basket of white flowers against a shadowed background in a photograph. The photograph is high contrast black and white so the large bundle of white flower seems to burst from the shadows

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