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African Americans and American Politics: An Exhibition From The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
http://exhibitions.nypl.org/exhibits/african-americans-in-politics
Description: Before Barack Obama, there was Crispus Attucks, Frederick Douglass, the Massachusetts 54th Regiment, Mary McLeod Bethune, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and a host of other heroes and heroines of the African-American struggle for freedom and human dignity, fighting to make America and American Democracy real for all of its citizens. Like Attucks, people of African descent were there at the founding of the nation. And since Attucks, millions have fought, bled and died to help define, defend and protect the ideals of freedom, justice and equality embodied in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. African Americans and American Politics is a brief survey of that quest over the last 200+ years.
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Yaddo
http://exhibitions.nypl.org/exhibits/yaddo
Description: Founded in 1900 by philanthropists Spencer and Katrina Trask, Yaddo has emerged as America’s premier artists’ retreat, nurturing the talents of thousands of writers, painters, composers, and other creative artists. When its first guests arrived in 1926, Yaddo was hailed by The New York Times as a “new and unique experiment, which has no exact parallel in the world of fine arts.” As Yaddo’s second season began, a reporter for the Herald Tribune wrote, “It is a peculiar gratification to see in America such carefully conducted contributions as this to the nourishing of the spirit and its works in what we are told ad nauseam is a materialistic age. One sonnet would justify the whole experiment and render it immortal.”
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 Treasures of The New York Public Library Video Series
http://www.nypl.org/news/treasures/index.cfm
Description: Watch as curators, librarians, and special guests, like chef Lidia Bastianich and pianist Margaret Leng Tan, share their passion for the treasures of our remarkable collections. Travel the Spuyten Duyvil Creek in 1777, hear music recorded 100 years ago on wax cylinders, marvel at rare 1920s Japanese comics and other pop ephemera, enter the turnstile at the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, hit the road with the Beats, and witness how photographers have engaged the world from the 19th century up to the present-day work of photojournalist Stephen Dupont.
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Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City
http://exhibitions.nypl.org/exhibits/eminent
Description: The exhibition Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City features the work of five contemporary New York–based photographers drawn primarily from new acquisitions in the Photography Collection.
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Abecedarium NYC: an interactive online exhibition exploring New York City through words and images
http://www.nypl.org/branch/central/dlc/abecedariumnyc/index.html
Description: Reflect on the history, geography, and culture – both above and below ground -- of New York City through 26 unusual words. Abecedarium: NYC is an interactive online exhibition that uses original video, animation, photography and sound to create relationships between these words and locations in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. Share your own vision of New York by creating a video, a soundscape, a photo or written interpretation of a word and uploading your work to the exhibition. Produced by Lynne Sachs and Susan Agliata in collaboration with local New York artists. This exhibition is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
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Multiple Interpretations: Contemporary Prints in Portfolio at The New York Public Library
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/multiple/index.html
Description: Prints by definition suggest multiplicity, and printmaking lends itself to projects that are best expressed through multiple images. The artists represented in this exhibition have taken advantage of printmaking’s penchant for serial imagery in order to tell a story, to take a stand on political and social concerns, to consider formal issues, and to explore the creative process.
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Making the Scene: The Midtown Y Photography Gallery, 1972-1996
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/midtowny/index.html
Description: The Midtown Y Photography Gallery was the first non-profit organization in New York City with a mission to provide a public space for the display of photographs, helping dozens of photographers make the scene that it helped to bring about over 25 years, from 1972 to 1996 when the gallery closed.
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From Revolution to Republic in Prints and Drawings
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/revolution/index.html
Description: A celebration of the profound and diverse holdings of early American prints and drawings in The New York Public Library, this two-part exhibition draws primarily from the Phelps Stokes, Emmet, Eno and C. W. McAlpin collections, all part of the Print Collection of The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, and from the Spencer Collection.
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Where Do We Go from Here? The Photo League and Its Legacy (1936-2006)
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/league/index.html
Description: In recognition of the 70th anniversary of the League's founding, this exhibition celebrates the diverse oeuvre of these photographers and their unflagging commitment to their medium. It also serves as a reminder that the political climate of the nation can have real consequences on its cultural life.
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500 Years of Italian Dance: Treasures from the Cia Fornaroli Collection
http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/italiandance/
Description: 500 Years of Italian Dance: Treasures from the Cia Fornaroli Collection pays tribute both to the rich history of Italian dance and to the remarkable Cia Fornaroli Collection, a jewel of the Library's Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
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Letters to Sala
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/sala/index.html
Description: At age sixteen, Sala Garncarz entered the Nazi labor camp system, where she would be imprisoned from 1940 to 1945. During that time she was able to collect and preserve a collection of 300 letters sent to her by friends and family from outside and within the camps. The letters were recently donated to the Library's Dorot Jewish Division by Sala's daughter, Ann Kirschner, and form the basis for the exhibition, in which they will be displayed for the first time. In passionate terms, the letters document the harsh consequences of the Nazi slave labor system on both the interned Jews and their torn families. They also reflect Sala’s relationship with such noteworthy figures as Ala Gartner, one of four women hanged in Auschwitz after participating in an armed rebellion. Letters to Sala will reveal rare documentation of Nazi atrocities written by the victims of those events during the time they were unfolding.
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Recent Acquisitions: New York Street Photography from the 1960s and 1970s
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/street/
Description: This exhibition features the work of three New York photographers, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and Joel Meyerowitz, who played a major role in the emergence of street photography as a central photographic practice in the 1960s. Following the lead of William Klein and Robert Frank, these photographers helped to transform documentary photography with their eccentric vision of the world. As the practice extended into the 1970s, street photography absorbed other artistic movements, as evidenced by the work of William Gedney, Roy Colmer, and Thomas Struth, whose photographs demonstrate both the continuity and diversity of photography in the streets of New York. The show is the first in a planned series of exhibitions that will showcase recently acquired New York City photographs from 1950 to the present.
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Recent Acquisitions: Old Master Prints
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/oldmaster/
Description: This exhibition will include 75 prints, acquired between 2000-2005, and will feature prints by Fontainebleu printmaker Pierre Milan, Jaques Callot, Jan van de Velde II, Domenico and Lorenzo Tiepolo, Philibert-Louis Debucourt and Ferdinand Olivier, among others. In addition to comments on each artist/printmaker, the exhibit will address the kinds of issues, which are considered when acquiring a print for the collection, from context to condition.
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Vaudeville Nation
http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/vaudeville/
Description: Vaudeville has been called the most influential entertainment genre in the nation's history. Vaudeville, and the related forms such as burlesque and prologs, provided freedom for self-expression of social and political commentary.
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Malcolm X: A Search for Truth
http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/malcolmx/
Description: The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, is pleased to present Malcolm X: A Search for Truth, an exhibition in commemoration of the eightieth anniversary of the birth of Malcolm X/El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. The exhibition is based in part on the collection of personal and professional papers and memorabilia of Malcolm X that was rescued from auction in 2002 and placed on deposit at the Schomburg Center by the Shabazz family.
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Before Victoria: Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/victoria/
Description: Before Victoria, drawn from the Pforzheimer, Berg, and Print Collections of the Humanities and Social Sciences Library, brings together literary and cultural history, and explores the transformation of British society through the lives of a number of remarkable women, some well-known today and some almost totally forgotten.
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Milton Avery: The Flying Pig and Other Winged Creatures
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/avery/index.html
Description: Milton Avery (1885-1965) was one of the foremost modernist American painters, recognized for his uniquely spare style combining figurative realism and lyrical abstraction with an extraordinary sense of color. In addition to painting, Avery produced nearly sixty drypoints, lithographs, and woodcuts in sporadic periods from 1933 to 1963. In 1946, at the instigation of his friend, painter Mark Rothko, Avery created his only illustrations, a set of eight witty and colorful gouache paintings for a children’s book entitled Paul, which remained unpublished during the artist's lifetime.
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In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
http://www.inmotionaame.org
Description: With images, manuscripts, photographs, maps, and music, In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience tells the story of a people whose movements over the last 500 years, both coerced and willing, inspired a culture and shaped a nation.
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Faith and Legacy: The Hellenic World from the Collections of The New York Public Library
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/faith/index.html
Description: In conjunction with the Hellenic Festival in New York, The New York Public Library is presenting a highly selective exhibition of approximately 25 important manuscripts and printed books in Greek and other languages as enduring reflections of contributions from Greece to the world in religion, literature, philosophy, history, science, and art, shaping civilization over an enormous span of centuries.
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James Gillray
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/gillray/
Description: The golden age of English caricature, from the late 1770s to the second decade of the 19th century, encompasses the life of its leading exponent, James Gillray (1756-1815), who contributed in no small measure to the brilliance and audacity of the political, personal, and social satires of this period.
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Mirrors to the Past: Ancient Greece and Avant-garde America
http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/mirrors/
Description: This multimedia exhibition, which draws on rare material housed in all four research divisions of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, focuses on the liberating force of archaic and classical Greece and the countless 20th-century American choreographers, theater artists, composers, visual artists, and designers it inspired.
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The Newtonian Moment: Science and the Making of Modern Culture
http://www.nypl.org/research/newton/
Description: Isaac Newton is a legendary figure whose mythical dimension perpetually threatens to overshadow the actual man. The story of the apple falling from the tree may or may not be true, but his revolutionary discoveries and their importance to the Enlightenment era and beyond are undeniable. The Newtonian Moment: Science and the Making of Modern Culture explores the many facets of Newton's colossal accomplishments, as well as the debates over the kind of knowledge most worth having that these accomplishments engendered.
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African Burial Ground
http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/afb/
Description: Explores the largest known intact colonial African cemetery in America, the African Burial Ground, discovered in 1991 during construction of a federal office building in Lower Manhattan.
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Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery
http://digital.nypl.org/lwf/
Description: Lest We Forget documents and interprets the obstacle-ridden but life-affirming experiences of enslaved African peoples in the Americas, and examines the extraordinary capacity of human beings to confront and transcend oppression, and to triumph over state-sanctioned evil and injustice.
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Cities in the Americas: A Celebration of The Phelps Stokes Collection
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/cities/index.html
Description: On the American continent, the 19th century was witness to the rapid expansion of boundaries, the growth of existing cities, and the establishment of new urban centers, all copiously recorded by the growing numbers of printmakers active in the United States and its territories. The exhibition includes examples of 18th-century views of America’s founding cities, as well as such dramatic 19th-century formats as the bird's-eye view.
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Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825
http://russia.nypl.org
Description: Russia Engages the World, 1453–1825 traces Russia’s movement from relative isolation to global empire through its contacts with Europe, Asia, and the Americas. When Peter the Great founded St. Petersburg as a “window on Europe” in 1703, he intended the city to symbolize Russia’s new direction. This website explores Russia’s exposure to and interaction with the larger world, as well as the significant role the new cosmopolitan capital played in this evolution.
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Vaslav Nijinsky: Creating a New Artistic Era
http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/nijinsky/
Description: Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950) was one of the 20th century's preeminent artists. The exhibition focuses on his career as a dancer and choreographer in a time marked by international disruptions of war as well as avant-garde collaborations and artistic energy. Nijinsky was a principal member of the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg and then became an international star through his performances with Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in its seasons in Western Europe, from 1908. His celebrity and lasting fame resulted from his premiere performances in Mikhail Fokine ballets such as Petrouchka and Les Sylphides.
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Best of Times: The Theatre of Charles Dickens
http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/dickens/
Description: Dickens's passion for the theater began in his childhood; his influence upon the theater continues today. Best of Times: The Theatre of Charles Dickens is illustrated with rare 19th-century broadsides, prints, posters, photographs, programs, and the original, annotated promptbooks used by Dickens during his vastly popular public readings. The exhibition highlights Dickens as performer, as playwright, and as the author upon whose works countless adaptations for the theater have been based.
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Urban Neighbors: Images of New York City Wildlife
http://urbanneighbors.nypl.org/
Description: Urban Neighbors is a celebration of the diversity and abundance of New York City wildlife, as documented in artistically striking visual images selected from The New York Public Library's vast resources. This online exhibition underscores how artists from various places have since the mid-17th century portrayed the animals that are New York City’s "urban neighbors."
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i on infrastructure
http://www.nypl.org/admin/exhibitions/ioni/index.html
Description: "I on Infrastructure," brings a new twist to civil engineering by exploring the intellectual, cultural, and social contexts that shape the world's infrastructure. Marrying art and technology concepts, this show juxtaposes pop art with images of bridges, plumbing fixtures, and traffic signs to examine how the eye and the mind perceive engineering design.
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Transformations: A Celebration of the Creative Spirit in the Performing Arts
http://www.nypl.org/research/transformations/
Description: To celebrate the reopening of its Lincoln Center home, now named the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts presents Transformations, an exhibition on transformations inherent to the creative process. This first exhibition in the renovated Library will fill both redesigned galleries and features treasures drawn from the nine million objects in the Library's collections in music, dance, theater, and recorded sound.
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Diversity Endangered
http://www.nypl.org/admin/exhibitions/endangered/index.html
Description: Diversity Endangered,a traveling exhibition from SITES, the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, examines the causes, consequences, and potential solutions to the loss of biological diversity. Included are reproductions of color photographs, artists' renderings, and text for 15 posters. Rain forest, coral reefs, and wetlands are among the issues covered. The Smithsonian material will be complemented by materials from the Science, Industry and Business Library's collections.
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Touring West: 19th-century Performing Artists on the Overland Trails
http://www.nypl.org/west/
Description: This online exhibition spotlights the professional performances by dancers, actors, slack- and tightrope walkers, jugglers, acrobats, singers, instrumental artists, authors, political activists, and orators who toured the United States from the time of the Louisiana Purchase (1803) through the 19th century.
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Heading West: Mapping the Territory
http://www.nypl.org/west/
Description: According to an old adage, a place is not discovered until it is mapped. This online exhibition traces the evolution from an imagined to a defined and mapped American West. Through impressions of the West in maps from 1540 to 1900, the website presents an overview of the mapping process, which continues today.
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Selected Clips from the Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project
http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/scl/MULTIMED/JAZZHIST/jazzhist.html
Description: Among the jazz holdings of the Center are tens of
thousands of sound recordings, retrievable by
individual performer (including side musicians),
song title, composer and arranger, stored on a
computer database.
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Heavens Above: Art and Actuality
http://www.nypl.org/research/sibl/trouvelot/
Description: An online exhibit that compares the 19th-century chromolithographs of astronomical observations made by artist/astronomer Etienne Trouvelot with comparable images photographed by NASA as part of its space program.
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Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World
http://www.nypl.org/utopia/
Description: This online exhibition traces how women and men have, over the space of several thousand years of Western culture, imagined, depicted, described, and created new versions of ideal societies. It seeks to show as well that the history of these places is inseparable from the histories of the people, cultures, and periods that gave birth to them.
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Seeing is Believing: 700 Years of Scientific and Medical Illustration
http://seeing.nypl.org/
Description: Illustrations were essential in spreading new scientific and medical ideas with clarity, dimension, and breadth that is not possible with text alone. Featuring illustrations from rare editions of works by such figures as Copernicus, Vesalius, and Curie, this online exhibition provides insight into why new developments in the sciences were often accompanied by corresponding developments in illustrative techniques.
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Nabokov Under Glass: A Centennial Exhibition
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/epo/nabokov/
Description: Featuring materials from the Nabokov Archive in the Library's Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, this online exhibition provides a chronological look at Vladimir Nabokov's life and literary output, starting with poems of his teenage years, through his latest novels and memoirs. The website, produced in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Nabokov's birth, provides insight into his powers of creation and his development as a writer.
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Moving Uptown: Nineteenth-century Views of Manhattan
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/movingup/opening.htm
Description: Moving Uptown traces Manhattan's urban evolution as it has been recorded in 19th-century prints, drawn primarily from the Eno
Collection of New York City Views and the I. N. Phelps Stokes Collection of American Historical Prints, both gifts to the Library's Print
Collection of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. These views rarely dwell on any of the disturbing
social repercussions of the city's remarkable growth (that was primarily the purview of illustrated journals), but rather they celebrate the
ever-changing face of a thriving, bustling, confident city.
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Harlem 1900-1940: An African-American Community
http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/Harlem/index.html
Description: Harlem 1900-1940: An African-American Community is a history education portfolio that has been produced by the Educational Programs unit of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the New York Public Library.
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The Romanovs: Their Empire, Their Books
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/slv/exhibit/roman.html
Description: Collected by generations of Russian royalty, the spectacular books that once lined the shelves of their palace libraries are a tangible legacy of the Romanov dynasty that ruled the Moscow Tsardom and the Russian Empire for 300 years, until the Russian Revolution of 1917. On view for the first time in The Romanovs: Their Empire, Their Books are highlights from the Romanov collections held by The New York Public Library.
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Dry Drunk: The Culture of Tobacco in 17th- and 18th-century Europe
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/drydrunk/intro.htm
Description: Tobacco has long been a subject of fascination and concern, for a variety of reasons. The New York Public Library possesses significant
collections relating to the history of tobacco, containing materials that cross many different cultures and areas of research; these
collections serve scholars from many fields, including literature, history, art history, the history of the book, and the sciences. Drawing
upon these rich resources, Dry Drunk provides historical context for the uses and abuses of tobacco, showing, among other things, that it
has been the focus of endless, if ever-shifting controversy since the moment of its introduction into Europe from the New World.
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Berenice Abbott: CHANGING NEW YORK 1935-1938
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/abbottex/abbott.html
Description: American master photographer Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) is probably best known for Changing New York, her 1935-1938 Federal Art Project documentation of the
city's rapidly changing built environment.
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Lewis Wickes Hine: The Construction of the Empire State Building, 1930-1931
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/hinex/empire/empire.html
Description: Lewis Hine was commissioned to photograph the construction of the building in 1930. Taking many of the risks the construction workers endured, Hine photographed
the workers in precarious positions while they secured the iron and steel framework of the structure. In order to obtain the best vantage points, Hine was swung out in a
specially designed basket 1,000 feet above Fifth Avenue.
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The Schomburg Legacy: Documenting the Global Black Experience for the 21st Century
http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/WEBEXHIB/legacy/legacy2.htm
Description: The Schomburg Legacy: Documenting the
Global Black Experience for the 21st Century,
a 70th Anniversary commemoration exhibition was
presented in three venues at the Schomburg
Center--the Exhibition Hall, the Latimer Edison
Gallery and the American Negro Theater. It
presents a comprehensive survey of the development
of the Center's collections since the death of
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1938) and explores the
Center's role as the premier public research
library in the world devoted to documenting and
preserving the histories and cultures of people of
African descent worldwide.
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Lewis Wickes Hine's "Work Portraits"
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/hinex/workport/work1.html
Description: Lewis Wickes Hine's self described "work portraits" series began shortly after World War I when he returned from Europe where he was working with the American
Red Cross documenting the plight of war refugees. This time, instead of documenting the decrepit working conditions of men, women and children in American
factories, he chose to glorify the inextricable communion between the worker and the machine in a more positive way.
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The African Presence in the Americas, 1492-1992
http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Schomburg/
Description: Before Columbus, before the "Americas," indigenous peoples organized in communities, nations and empires had resided in this hemisphere for over 40,000 years. According to recent scholarship, visitors from Africa, Asia and Europe arrived on these shores long before 1492.
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