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Past Exhibitions

  • Jill Kupin Rose Gallery Image

    Jill Kupin Rose Gallery

    January 1, 1998 (All day) - December 31, 2048 (All day)

    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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  • Daring Methods: The Prints of Mary Cassatt

    March 8, 2013 (All day) - June 23, 2013 (All day)

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

    October 25, 2012 (All day) - April 28, 2013 (All day)

    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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  • The Rose Haggadah

    March 15, 2013 (All day) - April 14, 2013 (All day)

    The Rose Haggadah is a unique artists’ book, the result of an innovative annual commission from the Rose family, presented to the Library’s Dorot Jewish Division by the Rose family in 2005. In three volumes, the Rose Haggadah brings together 50 years 

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  • Lunch Hour NYC

    November 1, 2012 (All day) - February 17, 2013 (All day)

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

    October 12, 2012 (All day) - February 17, 2013 (All day)

    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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  • Charles Dickens: The Key to Character

    September 14, 2012 (All day) - January 27, 2013 (All day)

    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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  • Mercator at 500

    March 13, 2012 (All day) - September 29, 2012 (All day)

    The year 2012 marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of Gerard Mercator (1512-1594), the Flemish geographer, engraver, and maker of scientific instruments, maps, and globes. In celebration of the occasion, The New York Public Library is hosting Mercator at 500, an exhibition of extraordinary 

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  • Taking Fun Seriously: Doodle 4 Google 2012

    May 17, 2012 (All day) - July 19, 2012 (All day)

    The country’s top doodles are here! The work of the 50 State Winners of the Doodle 4 Google 2012 contest have arrived from across the United States and landed in the halls of The New York Public Library. How did these award-winning creations get here? Through imagination!

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  • In Pieces: The Ancient Fragment or Ruin in Early Modern Prints

    March 2, 2012 (All day) - June 27, 2012 (All day)

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