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Related Book, Programs, and Website Accompany Library
Exhibition Russia Engages the World New York, NY, July 9, 2003 -- In conjunction with its exhibition Russia Engages the World, 1453–1825, The New York Public Library has organized a number of related activities that amplify or further reflect the themes of the show. These include the publication of an elegant companion volume, two symposia, a website, and a lecture and film series. Russia Engages the World is on view at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, from October 3, 2003 through January 31, 2004. Publication Russia Engages the World, 1453–1825, a lavishly illustrated 224-page companion volume, edited by Cynthia Hyla Whittaker, with curators Edward Kasinec and Robert H. Davis, Jr., will be published by Harvard University Press in September. Featuring essays by leading scholars and 120 images of items from the exhibition and the Library’s collections, it also includes a chronology of Russian history for the time period covered and a checklist of the works in the exhibition. The volume is available in hardcover ($49.95) and paperback ($24.95) at The Library Shops, online at www.thelibraryshop.org, and in bookstores nationwide. Programs Lecture Series The Pforzheimer Lectures on Printing and the Book Arts series will be dedicated to Russian book culture. The five speakers in the series and the titles of their lectures are: Nina Gurianova, “Tradition and Innovation in Russian Artist’s Books” (October 7); Gary Marker, “A Cautious Embrace: The Enlightenment and Russian Print Culture” (October 8); Robert Mathiesen, “Cosmology and the Puzzle of Early Printing in Cyrillic” (October 21); Jeffrey Brooks, “Image, Print, and Power in Russia, 1850–1950” (November 12); and Edward Keenan, “Ivan the Terrible and Book Culture: Fact, Fancy, and Fog” (November 18). Lectures will take place in the South Court Auditorium at 6:30 p.m. Tickets ($10 for the general public; $7 for Library donors) may be purchased by mail, fax (212.642.0101), online (www.ticketweb.com), or in the Library Shops. For more information on Public Education Program events, visit www.nypl.org/humanities/pep or call 212.930.0571. Film Series A film series held in November and December will bring the expansive sweep of Russian history to the screen of the Donnell Media Center at the Donnell Library Center, 20 West 53rd Street. Films will be shown Wednesdays at 2:30 p.m. with additional screenings on two Saturdays in November. The films to be included in the series are: The Eagle (1925, with Rudolph Valentino), The Queen of Spades (1949), Prince Igor (1969), and Alexander Nevsky (1938). There will be a special two-part screening of Sergei Bondarchuk’s War and Peace (1968) on Friday, November 7 and Saturday, November 8, at 10 a.m.; and a showing of Aleksandr Sokurov's Russian Ark (2002) on Saturday, November 15, at 1 p.m. Symposia Beyond “Russia Engages the World,” a symposium open to invited scholars, will take place on October 2 and 3. Participants will include the exhibition’s curators, consulting scholars, and other distinguished speakers from North American, European, and Russian cultural institutions, including the Russian National Library and the Hermitage Museum. From Russia . . . In Translation, a public symposium on translation of Russian literature, featuring panel discussions with renowned scholars and translators of Russian literature, will be held at the Library on October 30. For more information, visit www.nypl.org/humanities/pep or call 212.930.0855. Website A complementary website (russia.nypl.org) will enable visitors to explore in greater detail the connections between Russian and world history and culture. The website may also be viewed on selected terminals in Rooms 216 and 315 of the Humanities and Social Sciences Library. Related Exhibition Fast-forward to the 20th century: The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts will commemorate the 50th anniversary of composer Sergei Prokofiev’s death with an exhibition focusing on the influence of Soviet culture of the 1920s through 1940s on American performing arts. Prokofiev and His Contemporaries: The Impact of Soviet Culture will be on view October 15, 2003 through January 10, 2004. A series of recitals and lectures will take place in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, and a film series at the Donnell Media Center in December will complement this exhibition. Exhibition Tours Docent-led tours of Russia Engages the World will be available daily at 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. Group tours are available by appointment; call 212.930.0501 for reservations and fees. ### Russia Engages the World, 1453–1825 will be on view from October 3, 2003 through January 31, 2004, at The New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, in the D. Samuel and Jeane H. Gottesman Exhibition Hall and the Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Gallery. Exhibition hours are Tuesday and Wednesday from 11:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.; Thursday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.; closed Sundays, Mondays, and national holidays. Admission is free. For more information about exhibitions at The New York Public Library, the public may call 212.869.8089 or visit the Library’s website at www.nypl.org. Press release for Russia Engages
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