• The Wondrous Willa Kim: Costume Designs for Actors and Dancers

    February 23–August 19, 2023
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

    The Library for the Performing Arts celebrates the long and colorful career of costume designer Willa Kim.

  • Charles Darwin: A Life in Letters

    May 5–August 5, 2023
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    Charles Darwin: A Life in Letters is presented in partnership with Cambridge University Library and celebrates the…

  • Focus Center Stage: 50 Years of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive

    July 14, 2022–June 24, 2023
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

    A look back at the archive, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Theatre on Film and Tape and how it affected theatre history.

  • The Rose Family Seder Books

    March 31–April 13, 2023
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    The Rose Family Seder Books are unique collections of Passover-themed artwork. For over 60 years, the Rose family has commissioned…

  • Been Seen

    March 31, 2022–March 11, 2023
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
    Highlighting the work of Harlem-based photographer Austin Hansen (1910 -1996) and the experiences of Black photographers to illuminate the…

  • Virginia Woolf: A Modern Mind

    November 18, 2022–March 5, 2023
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    Virginia Woolf dedicated her literary life to the examination of the human character, whether in essays, short stories, and novels,…

  • Lou Reed: Caught Between the Twisted Stars

    June 9, 2022–March 4, 2023
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
    The first large-scale exhibition featuring previously unseen and unheard work from Lou Reed’s archive.

  • Boundless: 10 Years of Seeding Black Comic Futures

    January 14, 2022–February 28, 2023
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
    The exhibition celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture’s Black Comic Book Festival and…

  • Fortune and Folly in 1720

    September 23, 2022–February 19, 2023
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    Fortune and Folly in 1720 chronicles the spectacular rise and fall of the first international bubble economy. The Mississippi…

  • A Dickens Christmas

    November 21, 2022–January 8, 2023
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    This holiday season, the Library is celebrating with a special installation featuring Dickens’s heavily annotated…