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The New York Public Library Calendar of ExhibitionsSpring 2004Humanities and Social Sciences LibraryNinety from the Nineties: A Decade of Printing -- November 7, 2003 - May 28, 2004 Cities in the Americas: A Celebration of The Phelps Stokes Collection -- February 13, 2004 - June 26, 2004 Drawings by Charles Addams -- February 13, 2004 - June 26, 2004 Russia Engages the World, 1453 - 1825 -- February 20, 2004 - May 22, 2004 The Art Deco Bookbindings of Pierre Legrain and Rose Adler -- February 27, 2004 - June 12, 2004 The Declaration of Independence -- June 25, 2004 - July 31, 2004 The Declaration of Independence -- August 24, 2004 - September 3, 2004 Decoration in the Age of Napoleon: Empire Elegance Versus Regency Refinement -- September 3, 2004 - April 2, 2005 Drawings by Charles Addams -- September 10, 2004 - January 29, 2005 The Newtonian Moment: Science and the Making of Modern Culture -- October 8, 2004 - February 5, 2005 James Gillray -- October 15, 2004 - January 15, 2005 Before Victoria: Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era -- April 8, 2005 - July 30, 2005 The Declaration of Independence -- June 24, 2005 - July 30, 2005 Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts (working title) -- October 21, 2005 - February 11, 2006 Jill Kupin Rose Gallery - Ongoing -- January 1, 1998 - Ongoing Special Displays: The Gutenberg Bible -- January 6, 2004 - March 25, 2004 The Gutenberg Bible -- March 25, 2004 - August 6, 2005 Baseball at The New York Public Library -- March 30, 2004 - May 8, 2004 A Literary Christmas Miscellany from the Berg Collection -- December 7, 2004 - January 8, 2005 The New York Public Library for the Performing ArtsProkofiev and His Contemporaries: The Impact of Soviet Culture -- October 15, 2003 - March 27, 2004 The Enduring Legacy of George Balanchine -- December 3, 2003 - April 24, 2004 Margot Fonteyn in America: A Celebration -- May 18, 2004 - September 3, 2004 The City & The Theatre -- June 19, 2004 - October 2, 2004 EKANBAN: Kabuki Billboards by Torii Kiyomitsu -- June 25, 2004 - August 20, 2004 Ademola Olugebefola at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors -- June 25, 2004 - October 2, 2004 ... to illuminate the scene: Ellen Terry, Edith Craig, Edward Gordon Craig and John Gielgud -- June 25, 2004 - August 21, 2004 World Music Institute -- September 20, 2004 - November 26, 2004 Mirrors to the Past: Ancient Greece and Avant-garde America -- October 15, 2004 - January 3, 2005 Juilliard at 100 -- September 14, 2005 - January 14, 2006 Schomburg Center for Research in Black CultureInvoking the Spirit: Worship Traditions in the African World -- August 1, 2003 - February 29, 2004 The Buffalo Soldiers: The African-American Soldier in the U.S. Army -- November 14, 2003 - March 14, 2004 Jubilee: The Emergence of African-American Culture -- January 1, 2004 - February 29, 2004 Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery -- March 18, 2004 - July 11, 2004 Senegalese Contemporary Art Exhibition -- April 2, 2004 - April 15, 2004 Blacks and the United States Constitution -- April 22, 2004 - July 11, 2004 Gift of Life Project 2004 -- April 30, 2004 - May 30, 2004 Science, Industry and Business LibraryThe Subway at 100: General William Barclay Parsons and the Birth of the NYC Subway -- March 23, 2004 - December 31, 2004 Hours, Tours, The Library Shops, and InformationHumanities and Social Sciences LibraryFifth Avenue and 42nd StreetNinety from the Nineties: A Decade of Printing Ninety from the Nineties is part of a tradition at The New York Public Library that began in 1968 with Sixty from the Sixties: An Exhibition of Distinctive Editions. Once every ten years since then the Library has mounted an exhibition of books acquired by the Rare Books Division during the preceding decade. These exhibitions featured books, pamphlets, broadsides, and printed ephemera from printers at work in the Americas, Great Britain, and Europe. Image: Julie Chen. Bon Bon Mots: A Fine Assortment of Books. Berkeley, Calif.: Flying Fish Press, 1998. NYPL, Rare Books Division. Julie Chen designed and made the five miniature books and the box, which resembles a box of chocolates. The Gutenberg Bible  Special Display: The first substantial printed book in the West is the royal-folio two-volume Bible on display, comprising nearly 1,300 pages and printed in Mainz on the central Rhine by Johann Gutenberg (ca. 1390s-1468) in the 1450s. Probably completed between March and November 1455, when Gutenberg's bankruptcy deprived him of his printing establishment, the Bible epitomizes Gutenberg's triumph, arguably the greatest achievement of the second millennium. Over possibly twenty or more years, at Mainz and perhaps at Strasbourg, he succeeded in developing printing from movable type in the West. Cities in the Americas: A Celebration of The Phelps Stokes Collection  On the American continent, the 19th century was witness to the rapid expansion of boundaries, the growth of existing cities, and the establishment of new urban centers, all copiously recorded by the growing numbers of printmakers active in the United States and its territories. 19th-century American printmakers, frequently using the still new technique of lithography, transformed earlier topographical traditions into a vehicle for recording and promoting the new country's development. The exhibition will include examples of 18th-century views of America's founding cities, as well as such dramatic 19th-century formats as the bird's-eye view. Image: View of Boston, by F. Fuchs. Chromolithograph, published by John Weik, 1870. Drawings by Charles Addams  This exhibition is part of an ongoing, rotating selection of darkly humorous drawings by cartoonist Charles Addams, featuring many that appeared in The New Yorker. These drawings were donated to the Library by The Lady Colyton and Marilyn Addams. Their care and exhibition are supported by an endowment established through a gift from The Lady Colyton. Russia Engages the World, 1453 - 1825  This revised version of the exhibition presented at the Library last fall contains a number of items not part of the original presentation, including several spectacular items acquired by the Library in 2003. Through a wide variety of rare works on paper drawn from more than a dozen New York Public Library divisions, complemented by a small selection of loan items representing the decorative and fine arts, the exhibition traces Russia's interaction with European as well as Asian and Islamic societies during its rise from relative isolation to global empire. All the materials on view date from 1453 to 1825. More than fifteen world languages are represented in the exhibition, which places Russia in a global cultural space and stresses interactions within and outside of its borders. Image: A Kalmyk horseman. Hand-colored engraving from: The Costume of the Allied Armies in Paris in the Year 1815. [Paris, 1816]. Spencer Collection. The Art Deco Bookbindings of Pierre Legrain and Rose Adler  French bookbinders led the world in their craft in the earlier part of the 20th century, especially from the 1920s to the 50s, and fostered the designer-bookbinder movement that took firm root in several other countries. Two of the most influential were Pierre Legrain and Rose Adler, who between them created some 525 bindings for Jacques Doucet, the French bibliophile, couturier, collector, and
philanthropist. A highly select group of 43 Art Deco bindings, drawn from the Biblioth�que litt�raire Jacques Doucet in Paris -- plus two rare examples from The New York Public Library's Spencer Collection -- will be featured in the exhibition. The majority of these bindings have never been exhibited before. Image: Paul Morand. Les Amis nouveaux. Illustrated by Jean Hugo. Paris: Au Sans Pareil, 1924. Binding design: Pierre Legrain, 1927. Biblioth�que litt�raire Jacques Doucet. Photograph by Michel Nguyen. The Gutenberg Bible Special Display: The first substantial printed book in the West is the royal-folio two-volume Bible on display, comprising nearly 1,300 pages and printed in Mainz on the central Rhine by Johann Gutenberg (ca. 1390s-1468) in the 1450s. Probably completed between March and November 1455, when Gutenberg�s bankruptcy deprived him of his printing establishment, the Bible epitomizes Gutenberg�s triumph, arguably the greatest achievement of the second millennium. Over possibly twenty or more years, at Mainz and perhaps at Strasbourg, he succeeded in developing printing from movable type in the West. Baseball at The New York Public Library Special Display: On view is a scrapbook opened to show two cards from the Mecca Double Folders series, which pictures two players per card. The players share the bottom part of the card, usually showing the calves and feet; the top, when folded, depicts one player and, when flipped open, another. On the back are the statistics for both players. The card on the top left of the page features Christy Mathewson and Al Bridwell of the New York Giants; the card on the bottom shows first baseman Frank Chance and, inside, second baseman Johnny Evers. Chance and Evers made up two-thirds of the famous double-play combination "Tinker to Evers to Chance." This scrapbook includes the rare Honus Wagner baseball card and other baseball memorabilia and is preserved within the Goulston Collection, housed in the Library�s George Arents Collection on Tobacco. The Declaration of Independence  The Library is honored to safeguard a fair copy of the Declaration of Independence
in Thomas Jefferson�s hand. In the days immediately following ratification
on July 4, 1776, he made several copies of the text that had been submitted
to the Continental Congress, underlining the passages to which changes had
been made. The Library�s copy is one of two known to survive intact, a third
survivor being fragmentary. It is shown to celebrate Independence Day, together
with the first Philadelphia printing and the first New York printing of
the final version issued by Congress. These versions are complemented by
the earliest newspaper printings; the second official version ordered by
Congress, published by a woman printer in Baltimore; and a letter from Franklin
to Washington mentioning that the Declaration was being drafted.
Decoration in the Age of Napoleon: Empire Elegance Versus Regency Refinement Two distinctive movements, now known as the Empire Style and the Regency Style, were born out of the formal Neoclassicism that dominated late eighteenth-century European building and decoration. These styles were stimulated by the rivalry of France and England and their rulers. Napoleon I (1769-1821), self-styled Emperor of the French, assumed the throne in 1804 and immediately launched an ambitious art and design program that lasted until his reign ended in 1815. Across the English Channel, the Prince Regent, the future King George IV (1762-1830), also proved to be an active patron of the arts. Romantic-era forces shaped the new Empire and Regency styles: the cult of personality, typified in the Byronic hero; the appeal of antique and exotic civilizations; the use of pageantry and spectacle; and new interpretations of traditional and nationalistic ideals. Drawings by Charles Addams This exhibition is part of an ongoing, rotating selection of darkly humorous drawings by cartoonist Charles Addams, featuring many that appeared in The New Yorker. These drawings were donated to the Library by The Lady Colyton and Marilyn Addams. Their care and exhibition are supported by an endowment established through a gift from The Lady Colyton. The Newtonian Moment: Science and the Making of Modern Culture Isaac Newton is a legendary figure whose mythical dimension perpetually threatens to overshadow the actual man. The story of the apple falling from the tree may or may not be true, but his revolutionary discoveries and their importance to the Enlightenment era and beyond are undeniable. The Newtonian Moment: Science and the Making of Modern Culture will explore the many facets of Newton�s colossal accomplishments, as well as the debates over the kind of knowledge most worth having that these accomplishments engendered. James Gillray James Gillray has been credited with shaping and defining, almost single-handedly, the genre of British political and social satire at the end of the 18th century. A caricaturist of true genius, Gillray particularly directed his wit and invective toward the royal family, the excesses of the French Revolution, and Napoleon, though he was equally successful at skewering social customs and foibles, reveling in the excesses of contemporary fashion. A Literary Christmas Miscellany from the Berg Collection Special Display: A Christmas display of literary materials from the Library�s Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. Featured are Charles Dickens�s prompt copy of A Christmas Carol, from which he gave his public readings; books with Christmas themes by T. S. Eliot and Edmund Wilson; and Christmas greetings by James Joyce, Sean O�Casey, E. E. Cummings, and Maurice Sendak. Before Victoria: Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era The revolution in the lives of British women during the early 19th century was not the one that Mary Wollstonecraft would have ordered, but it certainly took place. In the half-century or so before Victoria came to the throne in 1837, a woman alone taking an active public role became unacceptable to the majority of her compatriots, male and female. This did not stop women of the Romantic period from making contributions of surprising magnitude and number to Britain�s public culture � contributions that have too often been overlooked. Drawn primarily from the Pforzheimer, Berg, and Print Collections of the Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Before Victoria will bring together literary and cultural history, and explore the transformation of British society through the lives of a number of remarkable women, some well-known today and some almost totally forgotten. The Declaration of Independence The Library is honored to safeguard a fair copy of the Declaration of Independence in Thomas Jefferson�s hand. In the days immediately following ratification on July 4, 1776, he made several copies of the text that had been submitted to the Continental Congress, underlining the passages to which changes had been made. The Library�s copy is one of two known to survive intact, a third survivor being fragmentary. It is shown to celebrate Independence Day, together with the first Philadelphia printing and the first New York printing of the final version issued by Congress. These versions are complemented by the earliest newspaper printings; the second official version ordered by Congress, published by a woman printer in Baltimore; and a letter from Franklin to Washington mentioning that the Declaration was being drafted. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts (working title) The New York Public Library possesses one of the finest collections of medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts in North America, yet its manuscript holdings are scarcely known to scholars, much less to a wide public audience. Medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts are vehicles of the collective memory of western European culture, and provide a material connection between the scribes, illuminators, and patrons who produced these works and the audiences who view them today. The works represent diverse genres, most of which are still recognizable in some form, from Bibles and missals to romance literature and science texts. This exhibition will focus on the 9th through the 16th centuries � seven hundred years of profound political, ecclesiastical, social, and intellectual change in Western Europe and the world. Jill Kupin Rose Gallery - Ongoing 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. The Jill Kupin Rose Gallery was created in 1998 by former New York Public Library Chairman Marshall Rose in memory of his late wife, Jill Kupin Rose. The New York Public Library for the Performing ArtsDorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center40 Lincoln Center Plaza Prokofiev and His Contemporaries: The Impact of Soviet Culture This exhibition commemorates the 50th anniversary of Sergei Prokofiev's death by focusing on Soviet culture of the 1920s through 1940s and its impact on American performing arts. It is a project of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and the MusicaRussia Foundation and features artifacts from the Library for the Performing Arts, the Glinka Archives and State Central Museum of Music, the Bolshoi Theater Museum, and the Stanislavsky and Nemerovich-Danchenko Theater of Moscow. Image: Photograph of Sergei Prokofiev, inscribed to Carl Lachmund, New York, 1920. Lachmund, a pianist, teacher and founder of the Women’s String Orchestra, had been a student of Franz Liszt. Carl Lachmund Collection, Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts The Enduring Legacy of George Balanchine Active at every level of instruction and performance, George Balanchine nourished the performers, teachers, and students who shaped the future of ballet in New York and across the United States. In celebration of the centennial of Balanchine's birth and in recognition of his profound impact on New York City, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts will present this multimedia exhibition of photographs, designs, manuscript music and correspondence, costumes, set pieces, and models. Visitors will gain new insights from excerpts from oral histories of Balanchine dancers and from videotaped performances and rehearsals. Margot Fonteyn in America: A Celebration Margot Fonteyn was probably the most famous, most successful, and most loved ballerina in the second half of the 20th century. Her introduction to America came on October 9, 1949, when Sol Hurok presented the Sadler's Wells Ballet (later the Royal Ballet) at the Metropolitan Opera House, featuring Fonteyn in the role of Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty. This exhibition, which includes costumes, haute couture, photographs, and film, takes the audience from the pointe shoes Fonteyn wore on that opening night to a stage heaped with flowers at the curtain call of her final Aurora in the United States � and beyond. Image: Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev in The Sleeping Beauty. Photograph by Mira. The City & The Theatre An exhibit in tribute to Mary C. Henderson's study of New York's theatre districts and architecture focusing on Broadway houses old and new. On display are architectural drawings by Anthony Dumas (1910s-1930s), contemporary drawings by Stanley Stark of new buildings and old theatres integrated into new buildings, and night time photographs by Christopher Frith of surviving Broadway theatres. EKANBAN: Kabuki Billboards by Torii Kiyomitsu This summer, the Lincoln Center Festival will present the Heisei Nakamura-za Kabuki Theater, Tokyo, led by Nakamura Kankuro V. Like Kabuki, Ekanban, the colorful billboards that advertise Kabuki plays, are also produced by a family dynasty. Torii Kiyomitsu is the ninth master of the Torii school, and the first woman in this traditional of tratrical painting. 30 large rice paper billboards depict the characters, costumes and repertory of Kabuki, including Natsumatsuri Naniwa Kagami, the work presented in the Festival. Image: Billboard by Torii Kiyomitsu for Natsumatsuri Naniwa Kagami Ademola Olugebefola at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors New York artist Ademola Olugebefola spends his Augusts at the free performances of the Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors Festival. For this exhibit, he enhanced his impressions of movement into new, mixed-media art based on his sketching at jazz concerts by Abdullah Ibrahim & Mary Stallings (August 24, 2001) and The Mingus Big Band (August 23, 2002), and at modern dance presentations by Philadanco (August 19, 1999), Donald Byrd/The Group (August 16, 2000), Monte/Brown (August 17, 2001) and Trisha Brown (August 21, 2002). Image: Ademola Olugebefola's impressions of the piano improvisations of Ibrahim Abdullah, August 24, 2001. ... to illuminate the scene: Ellen Terry, Edith Craig, Edward Gordon Craig and John Gielgud Four members of a British family redefined Anglo-American theater for the audience and profession. Ellen Terry, starring in the plays of Shakespeare and Shaw, epitomized the international appeal of English theater in the late 19th century. Her son, Edward Gordon Craig, was a revolutionary theorist, designer, and director of theater who also found the time to edit, design, and print books and magazines. Edith Craig, her daughter, first known as a designer and costumer, ran a theater company that produced suffragist and feminist plays, primarily by women. Terry�s great-nephew, Sir John Gielgud, presented and starred in both classics and innovative new plays of the British theater, and he created memorable characters in over fifty years of film. World Music Institute The World Music Institute joins with The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts to showcase traditional music and dance from around the world. The exhibit will feature photographs of the three prominent photographers Jack Vartoogians, Linda Vartooian and Ira Landgarten who have documented WMI throughout its 20-year history. Also on display will be instruments from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Newark Museum, and personal collections. Audio and video performances and interviews will introduce new audiences to a variety of music from a broad range of cultures and regions, spanning the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. Mirrors to the Past: Ancient Greece and Avant-garde America Since its founding, American artists, architects and statesmen have been awed and inspired by the simplicity and symmetry that they saw in Classical Greece. American choreographers, composers and theater creators were inspired by Greece to throw out the rules and re-define their arts. Theater companies investigated new forms of performance and production through revivals of the Greek tragedies. Hellenic art and narratives inpired the founding generations of modern dance, among them, the Duncan family, Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, and Martha Graham. Its music and theory inspired avant-garde composers and jazz innovators to ditch the 12-note octave and classical harmony in favor of just intonation and archaic modes. The exhibit will display material from all four of the Performing Arts Library's research divisions. Juilliard at 100 A collaboration with The Juilliard School to celebrate the 100th birthday of the esteemed conservatory of dance, music, and theater. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture515 Malcolm X BoulevardInvoking the Spirit: Worship Traditions in the African World The product of more than twenty-five years of travel and research by New York Times photojournalist Chester Higgins, Jr., this photographic essay explores worship practices across ethnic, national, cultural, and religious boundaries throughout the African world and documents the vitality and diversity of the global African religious experience. The images featured in the exhibition also serve as the central theme of Higgins�s book, Feeling the Spirit: Searching the World for the People of Africa. Culled from his archive of almost a million photographs documenting the global African experience, the photographs in Invoking the Spirit explore the myriad ways in which African peoples venerate their sacred deities, invoking their presence and spirit in their life worlds. Documented here are the sacred places African peoples�in Africa and the Americas�create and/or consecrate; the diverse spiritual leaders who are involved in the conduct of worship activities; the universal use of prayer as a formal means of communicating with God and the spirits; the rites, rituals, and ceremonies Africans use to pay tribute to God and invoke His/Her presence; and the roles of music and dance in religious services, ceremonies, and rituals. Image: © Chester Higgins, Jr. All Rights Reserved. The Buffalo Soldiers: The African-American Soldier in the U.S. Army This exhibition, which features items from the collections of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anthony Powell and illustrations by Avel de Knight, explores the victories and challenges of the 9th and 10th Cavalries, composed of African Americans and established by the United States Congress in July 1866. Dubbed Buffalo Soldiers by Native Americans, the mounted regiments developed into two of the most distinguished fighting units in the Army during the remainder of the 19th and the early 20th centuries. They also explored and mapped vast areas of the Southwest, strung hundreds of miles of telegraph lines, built and repaired frontier outposts that bloomed into towns and cities, and protected crews building the railroads. Image: John T. Glass, Scout, ca. 1885 Collection of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Jubilee: The Emergence of African-American Culture This exhibition, a companion to the Schomburg Center's four-color illustrated history of the same name (published by National Geographic), documents the courageous and innovative ways that enslaved Africans developed their own unique culture in the midst of slavery, and examines how that culture developed and flourished through the years after emancipation to the turn of the century. Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed 2004 as the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition, and UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) has elected Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery to be its official travelling exhibit, highlighting the triumph of the principles of liberty, equality, and the dignity of human rights. Lest We Forget documents and interprets the obstacle-ridden but life-affirming experiences of enslaved African peoples in the Americas, and examines the extraordinary capacity of human beings to confront and transcend oppression, and to triumph over state-sanctioned evil and injustice. Senegalese Contemporary Art Exhibition Featuring works by four of Senegal’s leading contemporary artists: Chalys Leye, Mbaye Ousseynou dit Seyni, El Hadji Mboup, and Mbaye dit Tita. Blacks and the United States Constitution Blacks and the United States Constitution examines the pivotal role of race in American Constitutional history, the black presence in American society, the dynamics of race relations in the United States, and the history of black freedom struggles. Highlights include proceedings of nineteenth-century black conventions, David Walker�s fiery Appeal using natural rights philosophy to justify slave violence in pursuit of freedom, Secretary of State William H. Seward�s signed certificate attesting to the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Supreme Court�s formal judgment in Brown v. Board of Education. Gift of Life Project 2004 The Gift of Life Project 2004 features collages created by The Boys & Girls Harbor art students from Genesis & P.A.C.T. programs, who learned about young people in Chad, Niger, and Brazil from research, presentations from UNICEF specialists, and photojournalists. The collages they created reflect the plights of their peers and were auctioned off to raise money to promote child advocacy, clean water programs, and medicine in those regions through UNICEF programs. (In the past, Harbor students have raised more than $20,000, of which 100 percent was donated to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that benefited youth in Sierra Leone, Angola, and India.) Their artwork has been exhibited internationally at the UN�s World Conference in Durban and nationally at the United Nations, Sotheby�s, Inc., Rush Arts Gallery, and the Blue Heron Arts Center. This year the students� collages will be exhibited at the Schomburg Center, the Romare Bearden Foundation, the United Nations, and Lincoln Center�s Cork Gallery. Science, Industry and Business Library188 Madison AvenueThe Subway at 100: General William Barclay Parsons and the Birth of the NYC Subway Celebrating the centennial of the opening of the New York City subway system in 1904, this exhibition both salutes William Barclay Parsons, the first chief engineer of the subway, and recognizes the importance of the subway system to the life and growth of the city. Image: Inspection of City Hall Subway Station, 1904. Courtesy of Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc. 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