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Exhibitions and special displays at the Library's many locations showcase our rich and varied collections.

Current Exhibitions

  • Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color

    Schomburg Center
    Now through June 29, 2013

    Born in Boston in 1905 and trained at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Loïs Mailou Jones began her career at a time when racial prejudices and gender discrimination were strong in American culture. This exhibition surveys the vast sweep of Jones’s seventy-five 

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  • Africans In India: From Slaves to Generals and Rulers

    Schomburg Center
    Now through July 18, 2013

    Extended!

    Over the centuries, East Africans have greatly distinguished themselves in India as generals, commanders, admirals, architects, prime ministers, and rulers. They have written a story unparalleled in the rest of the world: that of enslaved Africans 

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  • American Sabor: Latinos in US Popular Music

    Library for the Performing Arts
    Now through July 13, 2013

     
     
     
    American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music, a traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian, presents the musical contributions of U.S. Latinos from the 1940s to the present, exploring the social history and individual creativity that produced stars like 

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  • Back Tomorrow: Federico García Lorca / Poet in New York

    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    Now through July 20, 2013

    In June 1929, at a time when young writers and painters dreamed of living in Paris, Federico García Lorca (1898–1936), Spain’s greatest modern poet and playwright, broke boldly with tradition and sailed for New York. His nine months here, 

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  • Daring Methods: The Prints of Mary Cassatt

    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    Now through June 23, 2013

    In 1875, after being rejected by the official Paris Salon, where she had been exhibiting her paintings, American artist Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) accepted Edgar Degas’s (1834–1917) invitation to join the Impressionist group. Cassatt created her earliest surviving prints in 

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  • Flamenco: 100 Years of Flamenco in New York

    Library for the Performing Arts
    Now through August 3, 2013

    The multi-media exhibition is an integral part of collaboration between The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana. Photographs, costumes and performance regalia, film, oral histories, and the sound of castanets and taconeo will entertain and 

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  • Jill Kupin Rose Gallery

    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    Ongoing

    This ongoing exhibition consists of large wall panels with photographs, text, objects, and videos illustrating the history and the vast array of collections, services, and users of The New York Public Library's Branch and Research Libraries.

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  • Memory Preserved: Glass Plate Photographs of the Royal Cambodian Dancers

    Library for the Performing Arts
    Now through May 31, 2013

     
    These rare images of five principal women dancers from the Royal Ballet of Cambodia are on display in the United States for the first time. Recently rediscovered, catalogued, restored, and digitized, the 1927 images capture the dancers performing the postures and gestures from the 

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Select locations provide space to community groups, organizations or individuals to showcase works that the Library determines will further its mission.

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