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  • The Peregrinations & Pettifoggery of W.C. Fields Image

    The Peregrinations & Pettifoggery of W.C. Fields

    May 19, 2010 (All day) - August 21, 2010 (All day)

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  • The Peregrinations & Pettifoggery of W. C. Fields

    May 19, 2010 (All day) - August 21, 2010 (All day)

    The life and work of one of America’s great cultural figures is presented in bounteous and munificent detail this summer. On display in the Library's Vincent Astor Gallery is a unique exhibition organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills. It features 

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  • Lincoln Center Festival in Pictures: Photographs by Stephanie Berger

    July 6, 2010 (All day) - August 14, 2010 (All day)

    On the eve of the 15th annual Lincoln Center Festival, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts will open Lincoln Center Festival in Pictures, a retrospective photography exhibition that highlights the Festival’s artists and productions over the past 14 years. All the 

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  • Celebrating Anna Sokolow

    April 22, 2010 (All day) - July 24, 2010 (All day)

    2010 is the 100th aniversary of the birth of the great American choreographer Anna Sokolow.  The reading room of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, on the third floor of the Library for the Performing Arts, displays an installation inspired by Sokolow's major works by Robin Meems, with 

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  • The Jazz Loft Project

    February 17, 2010 (All day) - May 28, 2010 (All day)

    In January 1955, celebrated photographer W. Eugene Smith quit his longtime job at Life magazine. In search of greater freedom and artistic license, he accepted a three-week freelance assignment in Pittsburgh that turned into a four-year obsession and, in the end, remained 

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

    November 17, 2009 (All day) - March 20, 2010 (All day)

    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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    Lincoln Center: Celebrating 50 Years

    October 15, 2009 (All day) - January 16, 2010 (All day)

    Lincoln Center: Celebrating 50 Years, the first exhibition to focus exclusively on the evolution and influence of America's first performing arts center, features an extensive collection of historic and contemporary objects including photographs, ephemera, correspondence, costumes, set 

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    Katharine Hepburn: In Her Own Files

    June 10, 2009 (All day) - October 10, 2009 (All day)

    Katharine Hepburn’s elevation to the status of “icon” was due undoubtedly to her singular success on the screen. But her acting career began on the stage and it was there that she honed the skills that would later serve her so well in Hollywood. Yet even after her stature as a 

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  • New York Choral Society: The First 50 Years

    August 4, 2009 (All day) - September 26, 2009 (All day)

    The New York Choral Society and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts are celebrating the first 50 years of Choral Society history and the acquisition of the Choral Society's archive. One of the City’s most distinguished volunteer choruses, and proud of “New 

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  • Diaghilev's Theater of Marvels: The Ballets Russes and Its Aftermath

    June 26, 2009 (All day) - September 12, 2009 (All day)

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