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NYPL Fact Sheet The New York Public Library Honors James B. Lee, Jr., Vice Chairman, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Co-Chairman, The Investment Bank, at Annual Corporate Dinner--June 26, 2008
The New York Public Library will honor James B. Lee, Jr., Vice Chairman, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Co-Chairman, The Investment Bank, at the Library’s annual Corporate Dinner on June 26, 2008. The event will take place at The New York Public Library, Humanities and Social Sciences Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, with cocktails in Astor Hall at 6:30 p.m. and dinner in the Celeste Bartos Forum at 7:30 p.m. Charlie Savage Wins 2008 New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism for Takeover:
May 21, 2008 – The 2008 New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism was awarded last night to Charlie Savage for his book Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy (Little, Brown & Company). The award is given annually to a journalist whose work brings clarity and public attention to issues, events, or policies and includes a $15,000 cash prize. Library President Paul LeClerc and Bernstein Selection Committee Chair James F. Hoge, Jr., Editor of Foreign Affairs, Council on Foreign Relations, presented the award at a program held at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. Disappearing Storefronts of the Lower East Side, Life with a Chinatown Family, and Views from the Unseen Edges of New York City Featured in Major Photography Exhibition at The New York Public Library
Shifting views of public and private space through the cameras of five contemporary photographers reveal the constantly changing and often unfamiliar urban landscapes of New York City in Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City, an exhibition of more than 200 photographs at The New York Public Library. Eminent Domain features the recent photographic projects of five New York-based artists that deal with the life of the city in terms of passage (of seasons and time, people and place) and exchange (between individual and collective, interior and exterior). The works, by Thomas Holton, Bettina Johae, Reiner Leist, Zoe Leonard, and Ethan Levitas, will be on view at The New York Public Library’s Humanities and Social Sciences Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street from May 2 to August 29, 2008. Admission is free. Ron Currie Jr. Wins The New York Public Library’s 2008 Young Lions Fiction Award for His Debut Novel God Is Dead
April 30, 2008 – At a ceremony Monday evening, Ron Currie, Jr. was presented with The New York Public Library’s 2008 Young Lions Fiction Award by Library President Paul LeClerc. The ceremony was held in the Celeste Bartos Forum of the landmark Humanities and Social Sciences Library. Ethan Hawke, one of the founders of the award, was joined onstage by actors Brian F. O’Byrne, Amanda Peet, and Michael Shannon to read excerpts from each of the finalists’ works. The four other finalists for the award were Ellen Litman for The Last Chicken in America; Peter Nathaniel Malae for Teach the Free Man; Dinaw Megestu for the The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears; and Emily Mitchell for The Last Summer of the World. The New York Public Library Will Restore its Fifth Avenue Building's Historic Facade
The New York Public Library Chooses 25 Outstanding Books to Remember for 2008
The New York Public Library has selected the 25 Books to Remember from 2007. Chosen by a group of librarians who are specialists in their genres, these outstanding works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry provide an informative or transformative reading experience, and are chosen for their literary excellence, uniqueness of concept and command of subject matter. The Books to Remember list is published by The New York Public Library’s Office of Adult Services, and is available free at all 87 branches of the Library. The full list can be viewed here. Todd M. Corbin Appointed Chief Investment Officer for The New York Public Library
New York Public Library President Paul LeClerc and Chief Operating Officer David G. Offensend have announced the appointment of Todd M. Corbin as the Library’s Chief Investment Officer. As such, he is the senior executive responsible for working with the Board of Trustees’s Investment Committee to manage the Library’s endowment fund, currently valued at $740 million. Tony Kushner and Edmund White Help Launch New Support Group for The New York Public Library's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Collections
(New York, NY) April 4, 2008 – A new donor support group, LGBT @ NYPL, will help to expand, build, and make accessible The New York Public Library’s extensive Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) collections, one of the few such efforts by a non-LGBT organization. The New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Names 2008-2009 Fellows
The New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers announces the selection of its tenth class of Fellows: fifteen exceptional creative writers, independent scholars, and academics, coming to the Library from as near as Brooklyn and as far away as Warsaw. The Fellows, whose appointments were announced today by Library President Dr. Paul LeClerc and Jean Strouse, the Sue Ann and John Weinberg Director of the Center, will use the research collections and online resources of The New York Public Library’s landmark Humanities and Social Sciences Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street to pursue a variety of book projects. They will be in residence at the Center from September 2008 through May 2009. First Major Exhibition Celebrating Jerome Robbins Explores Dance Legend’s Artistry, Politics, Personality and Love of New York
Among the most celebrated choreographers of his time, Jerome Robbins belonged to New York. His work showcased the grit and the glory of the city through populist masterpieces such as West Side Story and On the Town, and moved fluidly between ballet and Broadway with technical artistry and vernacular energy. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts presents the first major retrospective of the man and the city he loved: New York Story: Jerome Robbins and His World, which explores Robbins' work and the many overlapping New York worlds that met in it. The exhibition draws from the library’s collections of Robbins’ personal archives, and the vast majority of the materials on display have never been seen by the public. Early Photographic Methods Reveal Dreamlike Landscapes and Images of a Lost Paris in Two New Exhibitions at The New York Public Library
Two new exhibitions at The New York Public Library show French artists turning to the new photographic processes to record the countryside and the cityscape in the second-half of the 19th century. Sketches on Glass: Clichés-Verre from The New York Public Library presents the work of four artists from the Barbizon school who turned to cliché-verre, a hybrid technique that combined aspects of printmaking and photography, to sketch the French countryside and idyllic landscapes. A complementary exhibition, Monumental France: Photographs of Édouard Baldus, displays 38 rare, early photographs by Baldus, who was hired by the French government in the 1850s to document the country’s great architectural monuments. The Tumultuous Life and Enduring Influence of John Milton, Poet, Radical and Cultural Icon, Celebrated in Major Exhibition at The New York Public Library
The New York Public Library presents the first major New York City exhibition in decades celebrating the 17th century poet John Milton, featuring beautifully engraved early editions of Paradise Lost, portraits, prints, and other rare materials never before seen by the public. John Milton at 400: A Life Beyond Life marks the poet’s quadricentenniel anniversary, and will be on view at The New York Public Library’s Humanities and Social Sciences Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street from February 29, 2008 to June 14, 2008. Zoe Caldwell, Dick Cavett, Katharine Houghton, Marian Seldes, and Sam Waterston Read from Katharine Hepburnās Personal Papers in Free Programs at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
To celebrate the recent donation and opening for public viewing of the Katharine Hepburn Papers at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the Library is presenting a new series of free public programs, Remembering Kate. The programs will include readings from the legendary actress’ personal papers for the first time and reminiscences by family, friends, and colleagues. including actors Zoe Caldwell, Katharine Houghton (Hepburn’s niece), Charlotte Moore, Marian Seldes, and Sam Waterston; talk show host Dick Cavett; and director Anthony Harvey.
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