• Remembering Betty White

    January 31–April 20, 2022
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
    This pop-up installation includes photographs and ephemera of Betty White from the Billy Rose Theatre Division that document her most…

  • Celebrating Passover with Library Collections

    Online Only
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    This web exhibition presents an array of special materials from The New York Public Library's Dorot Jewish Division and other research…

  • Wolf Eyes Library Style

    Online Only
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
    For their residency at the Library for the Performing Arts, Wolf Eyes was inspired by the Library’s collection to create musical…

  • Visions of Jack Kerouac: A Centennial Celebration

    March 5–April 3, 2022
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    March 12, 2022, marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of novelist, poet, and counterculture icon Jack Kerouac, one of the most…

  • Women's Suffrage in Music & Recorded Sound

    January 5–March 31, 2022
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
    Discover published suffrage and anti-suffrage music for a glimpse of history in this two vitrine display.

  • Remembering Stephen Sondheim: Pop-Up Installation

    January 10–February 12, 2022
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts honors the legacy of late American composer Stephen Sondheim with a small pop-up…

  • Subversion & The Art of Slavery Abolition

    March 12, 2021–January 22, 2022
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
    This exhibition highlights several of the ways that abolitionists engaged with the arts to agitate for enslaved people’s liberty in the…

  • Winter Wonderland: George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®

    Online Only
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
    It is so much a part of the holidays in New York that it is now hard to imagine a time when George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker® did not…

  • Traveling While Black: A Century of Pleasure & Pain & Pilgrimage

    March 12–December 11, 2021
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
    Since the start of their experience in the Americas, Black people have been defined by travel, displacement, and resistance. 

  • Brick By Brick, Putting It Together: The Broadway Set Miniatures of Henry Lee

    September 17–December 11, 2021
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
    Company, Follies, Evita, The Phantom of the Opera, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd. These popular Broadway shows and iconic sets will be…