• Showing Out: Fashion in Harlem

    September 9–September 30, 2021
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
    Showing Out: Fashion in Harlem spotlights HIF’s fashion shows and celebrates the organization’s efforts to amplify the contributions of…

  • Freedom's Founders

    Online Only
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
    The Fourth of July inspires both celebration and reflection. Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence proclaimed “life, liberty,…

  • Georgia on My Mind: Black Politicians in Congress

    Online Only
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
    This online exhibition highlights 22 Black men who served in the U.S. Congress; two in the Senate and twenty in the House of…

  • Femmetography: The Gaze Shifted

    June 3, 2019–December 30, 2020
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
    Femmetography: The Gaze Shifted explores a critical engagement with the black feminine gaze, using Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe’s book…

  • Made at NYPL

    November 14, 2019–July 3, 2020
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    Writers, scholars, artists, and innovators from around the world come to delve into NYPL’s deep and sweeping repository of more than 46…

  • In the Company of Harold Prince: Broadway Producer, Director, Collaborator

    September 17, 2019–March 31, 2020
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

    This exhibition will illuminate the team of designers, stage managers, press agents, composers, and writers Hal Prince assembled to…

  • Chamber Music Society at 50

    October 3, 2019–March 7, 2020
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

    This exhibition highlights the rich and diverse work of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: the dedicated efforts of the…

  • Archive in Motion: 75 Years of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division

    July 16, 2019–January 25, 2020
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

    The Jerome Robbins Dance Division celebrates its 75th year with an exhibition that charts its history and the establishment of…

  • J.D. Salinger

    October 18, 2019–January 19, 2020
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    The New York Public Library presents a rare glimpse into the life and work of author J.D. Salinger with an exhibition of manuscripts,…

  • Ugly Duckling Presse Chapbook and Zine Collection: Other Presses, Other Places

    May 28, 2019–January 12, 2020
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    The New York Public Library partners with Ugly Duckling Presse to collect chapbooks, small-print periodicals, avant-garde zines, and…