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

Current Exhibitions

  • Lunch Hour NYC

    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    Now through February 17, 2013

    Lunch Hour NYC looks back at more than a century of New York lunches, when the city's early power brokers invented what was yet to be called "power lunch", local charities established a 3-cent school lunch, and visitors with guidebooks thronged Times Square to eat lunch at the 

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  • Charles Dickens: The Key to Character

    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    Now through January 27, 2013

    Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was the best-loved English novelist at a time when recreational reading was at a zenith. His fictional creations represent a cross-section of society—from law-clerk to crossing-sweeper, miser to midwife—and are united by the vividness with which they 

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  • Echoes of Silence: Philip Trager, Early Photographs, 1967-83

    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    Now through February 17, 2013

    Enjoy the quietly relentless formal beauty of Philip Trager’s early photography in this free exhibition. Trager is widely acknowledged as one of the foremost photographers of architecture and dance of the 20th century. The exhibition Echoes of Silence: Philip Trager, Early Photographs, 

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  • From Cover to Cover: 20 Years of African Voices

    Schomburg Center
    Now through January 19, 2013

    Danny Simmons, the founder of Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, is the curator for the exhibition, 20 Years of African Voices. Artwork from the magazine’s front and back covers will anchor the exhibition. Photo essays and other archival  

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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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  • Katharine Hepburn: Dressed for Stage and Screen

    Library for the Performing Arts
    Now through January 12, 2013

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  • Martha Swope: In Rehearsal

    Library for the Performing Arts
    Now through January 26, 2013

    Martha Swope, who started out as a dance student with a Brownie camera, developed into the premier photographic documenter of performance in New York. The free exhibition focuses on Swope's photographs of the rehearsal process, highlighting her understanding of movement while illuminating how 

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  • Sailor Twain's New York: Secrets and Mysteries of the River Hudson

    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    Now through April 28, 2013

    In 2009, the Library presented Mapping New York’s Shoreline, 1609-2009, an exhibition marking the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s famous voyage.

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  • Visualizing Emancipation

    Schomburg Center
    Now through March 16, 2013

    To commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Schomburg presents 171 pre– and post– Civil War era photographs of enslaved and free black women, men, and children. The images record the presence of black soldiers and black workers in the American South and 

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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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