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  • Experiments in Non-Objective Photography- Photos by Hans Weck

    Richmondtown Library
    November 25, 2011 (All day) - January 31, 2012 (All day)

    Relying on creative impulses with an emphasis on strong graphic design, Hans Weck’s photos concentrate exclusively on form and pattern.  Weck creates his images in an attempt to define beauty in a very abstract way—an intellectual exercise minimizing 

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  • Ner Beck: A Photographic Exhibition of Lost and Found West Side Street Art

    Bloomingdale Library
    January 3, 2012 (All day) - January 31, 2012 (All day)

    Ner Beck, a New York City graphic artist, has had a longtime interest in overlooked street art captured in photographs. This recent series of images displayed at The New York Public Library, Bloomingdale Branch represent images found on neighborhood sightings on the West 

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  • The Legacy of Pentecostal Minister Reverend Manuel Tómas Sanchez, 1933–1991.

    Bronx Library Center
    January 9, 2012 (All day) - January 31, 2012 (All day)

    This exhibit honors the life and work of Puerto Rican pioneer Rev. Manuel Tomas Sanchez. It chronicles his life as a Pentecostal Pastor of the Iglesia Pentecostal Antioquia in Brooklyn, New York. Reverend Manuel Tomas Sanchez worked in a major way to 

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  • Pottery Exhibit By Robert Weiss

    Ottendorfer Library
    December 1, 2011 (All day) - January 31, 2012 (All day)

     Robert Weiss is a volunteer at the Ottendorfer Library and also an accomplished Pottery Artist. For more pictures of his work visit us at https://www.facebook.com/ottendorferlibrary.

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  • A Winter Extravaganza: How Do You Celebrate

    125th Street Library
    December 5, 2011 (All day) - January 27, 2012 (All day)

    James Goodridge and Company express the Holidays Visually.

    A reception will follow on December 29th 2011

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  • A Century of Art Image

    A Century of Art

    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    October 11, 2011 (All day) - January 15, 2012 (All day)

    The New York Public Library’s centennial celebrations continue with A Century of Art. Featuring works of art dating from 1911 through 2010, the exhibition offers a rare look back at the Library’s first one hundred years, surveying its own rich holdings while highlighting 

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  • The Soul of Blackness/A Centennial Tribute Image

    Romare Bearden: The Soul of Blackness/A Centennial Tribute

    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
    July 15, 2011 (All day) - January 7, 2012 (All day)

    The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is pleased to present a centennial birthday tribute to world acclaimed artist and native son Romare Bearden. This exhibition is the Center’s contribution to the nation-wide birthday celebration of his 

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  • Storylights

    Mid-Manhattan Library
    July 9, 2011 (All day) - January 3, 2012 (All day)

    In celebration of The New York Public Library's 100th birthday, artist Katherine Jackson has created Storylights a series of three site-specific exhibitions with the first one presented in the Corner Reading Room, the new reading room on the 

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  • Where is home?

    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    June 15, 2010 (All day) - December 31, 2011 (All day)

    Where is home?

    “Home is where one starts from.” - T.S. Eliot

       New York City is home to over 8 million people and plays hosts to millions of visitors from the NYC metropolitan 

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  • Children’s Book Illustrators and Authors Come Alive

    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    June 9, 2011 (All day) - December 31, 2011 (All day)

    Most readers are introduced to picture books at a very young age. The wondrous, informative, humorous, and sometimes mischievous images in these books compel children to turn the page. By making a connection between words and pictures, children learn language, enrich relationships between parent 

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