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Exhibitions at NYPL

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

  • Michael Dal Cerro: Contingent and Eternal City

    Mid-Manhattan Library
    Now through March 19, 2010

    The Art Collection at Mid-Manhattan Library presents an exhibition of woodcut prints by the painter and printmaker Michael Dal Cerro. Interested in representing the city as a symbol of progress and modernity, he is influenced by early 20th-century German Expressionist architects and…

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  • Candide at 250: Scandal and Success

    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    Now through April 25, 2010

    Voltaire’s tale of the youth Candide’s trials, travels, and misadventures as he searches for his beloved Cunegonde was a publishing sensation in Europe in 1759. The satirical treatments of religion, sexuality, and authority made Candide both a target of censorship by the Vatican as well as a…

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  • Jerry Pinkney's African-American Journey to Freedom

    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
    Now through April 18, 2010

    Jerry Pinkney's African-American Journey to Freedom
    The Seagram Collection of African-American Art

    This exhibition is a stunning collection of 35 watercolor paintings by the award-winning children’s book illustrator and artist. Originally commissioned by the…

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  • President Barack Obama: The First Year

    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
    Now through April 18, 2010

    President Barack Obama: The First Year
    Photographs by Pete Souza,
    Chief Official White House Photographer

    This special exhibition offers an inside view of the first year of the historic Presidency of Barack Obama. Pete Souza is the Chief Official White House Photographer for…

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  • 1969: The Year of Gay Liberation

    Grand Central Library
    Now through February 13, 2010

    In the wake of the Stonewall Riots on June 28, 1969, gays and lesbians in New York City radicalized in an unprecedented way, founding activist groups—Gay Liberation Front, Radicalesbians, Gay Activists Alliance, and Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries—that created a new vision: Gay…

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  • Artist Tamara N. Savinich

    Columbus Library
    Now through February 27, 2010

    Ms. Savinich will show her graphic works and paintings. She was born in Belarus and came to New York in 1994. She studied printmaking, painting, and sculpture at The Art Students League. She specializes in mezzotint, which is a printmaking process that was popular in the 17th, 18th, and 19th…

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  • Revolutionary Voices: Performing Arts in Central & Eastern Europe in the 1980s

    New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
    Now through March 20, 2010

    To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of Communism in the countries of the Czech Republic, the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany), Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovenia, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has joined with creative artists and…

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  • Mapping New York's Shoreline, 1609-2009

    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    Now through June 26, 2010

    September 2009 marks 400 years since Henry Hudson sailed into New York Harbor and up the Hudson River, almost to what is now Albany, performing detailed reconnaissance of the Hudson Valley region. Other explorers passed by the outwardly hidden harbor, but did not linger long enough to fully…

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  • Winnie-the-Pooh and Friends: The Original Toys

    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    Ongoing

    The REAL Winnie-the-Pooh won't be found on a video, in a movie, on a T-shirt or a lunchbox. Since 1987, the REAL Pooh and four of his best friends--Eeyore, Piglet, Kanga, and Tigger--have been living at The New York Public Library.

    Long before Walt Disney turned Pooh and his pals into…

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  • The Gutenberg Bible

    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    Ongoing

    Special Display: The first substantial printed book in the West is the royal-folio two-volume Bible on display, comprising nearly 1,300 pages and printed in Mainz on the central Rhine by Johann Gutenberg (ca. 1390s-1468) in the 1450s. Probably completed between March and November 1455,…

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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. The Jill Kupin Rose Gallery was created in 1998 by…

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  • Staying Alive 2: A cru of characters

    Hamilton Fish Park Library
    Ongoing

    ORIGINAL GRAFFITI ART by

    David Alicea aka Lethal, Moriah Ressler & Twelph

    And featuring:

    Ongoing exhibit of black book & sketchbook pages

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  • The Art of Ana Traversa

    Hamilton Grange Library
    Now through February 15, 2010

    Last chance to view the art of Argentine artist Ana Traversa:-Fantasy, Form and Color. This series are titled Isolation-drawings and paintings, Transparencies & Unveilings-acrylics, Untitled For…

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