Archive: Exhibitions
(Listed by year, alphabetically)
2007
Beat
Writer Jack Kerouac Explored in In-Depth (11-07-07)
Contemporary
Prints by Mark Dion, Olafur Eliasson, E.V. Day, and Others in : Multiple Interpretations
(9-14-07)
Early American Prints and Drawings on Display at The New York Public Library (01-27-07)
Graphic Modernism from the Baltic to the Balkans, 1910-1935 (9-02-07)
Graziella Vigo Captures Verdi on Stage (11-19-07)
Invention:
Merce Cunningham & Collaborators
Legendary Conductor Arturo Toscanini
Is Focus of Exhibition (02-12-07)
Lincoln Kirstein Honored with Centennial Exhibition at LPA (10-30-07)
Lower Manhattan 2010: It's Happening Now (01-23-07)
Making the Scene: The Midtown Y Photography Gallery, 1972-1996 (04-05-07)
Molly Picon: Yiddish Star, American Star (06-14-07)
Russia Imagined 1825 - 1925: The Art and Impact of Fedor Solntsev (02-28-07)
The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic (11-15-07)
The New York Public Library
Season Preview 2007/2008
2006
A Rakish History of Men's Wear:
Examines the Clothes that Made the Men (08-17-06)
Ads Matter:
Celebrating Advertising & Social Impact (09-28-06)
Dance
in Cuba (08-30-06)
Declaration of Independence (05-30-06)
Ehon: The Artist
and the Book in Japan (10-17-06)
Five Centuries of Italian Dance (10-17-06)
French Book Art | Livres d'Artistes: Artists and Poets in Dialogue (05-05-06)
InMotion: The African-American Migration Experience (2006)
Jim Dine’s Pinocchio (12-06)
Letters to Sala: A Young Woman's Life in Nazi Labor Camps (03-06-06)
Places & Spaces (03-30-06)
Recent Acquisitions : New York Street Photography and Old Master Prints (02-24-06)
Show Business!: Irving Berlin's Broadway at The Library for the Performing Arts (02-14-06)
Stars and Treasures: 75 Years of Collecting Theatre (11.06)
"Where Do We Go From Here?": The Photo League and Its Legacy (1936 - 2006) (08-18-06)
2005
Before Victoria: Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era (05-08-05)
Beyond the Rainbow: the Music of Harold Arlen at the Library for the Performing Arts
A Community of Artists: 50 Years of the Public Theater at the Library of the Performing Arts
DISCO: A Decade of Saturday Nights at the Library for the Performing Arts
I Am the Rose: Passover Imagined in the Collections of The New York Public Library
I Am With You: Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1855-2005)
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience at the Schomberg Center (02-01-05)
Irreplaceable Dance Treasures at The Library for the Performing Arts
The Julliard School, 1905-2005: Celebrating 100 Years at The Library for the Performing Arts (09-12-05)
Malcolm X: A Search for Truth at The Schomburg Center (05-19-05)
Milton Avery: The Flying Pigs and Other Winged Creatures
Opt In to Advertising's New Age at The Science, Industry and Business Library (09-14-05)
Prints With/out Pressure (10-25-05)
The Splendor of the Word (10-18-05)
Treasured Maps: Celebrating The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division (09-07-05)
Vaudeville Nation at The Library for the Performing Arts (10-31-05)
2004
Art Deco Bookbindings of Pierre
Legrain and Rose Adler | Image sheet (02-13-04)
Cities in the Americas
(01-16-04) | Website
Declaration of Independence
(06-11-04)
Decoration in the Age of Napoleon (08-27-04)
Four exhibitions at Performing Arts Library (06-30-04)
Exhibitions calendar , Spring
2004 (02-04)
James Gillray (10-22-04) | Website
Jewes in America (09-14-04)
Margot Fonteyn in America: A Celebration
(02-27-04)
Mirrors
to the Past (Hellenic Festival) (09-29-04)
The Newtonian Moment | Website (09-22-04)
Russia Engages the World, 1453 - 1825, extended
(02-10-04) | Website
The Subway at 100 (03-11-04)
…to illuminate the scene: Ellen Terry,
Edith Craig, Edward Gordon Craig, and John Gielgud (06-07-04)
Compleat Angler
(02-20-03)
Declaration of Independence
(06-06-03)
Depression-era Prints and Photographs
from the WPA and FSA | Image sheet
(09-24-03)
DNA Story in New York (02-11-03) | Related
programs (02-10-03)
Enduring Legacy of George Balanchine
(11-10-03)
Exhibitions calendar,
Spring 2003 (01-03)
Honest Jim: James D. Watson the Writer
(09-19-03)
Ninety from the Nineties: A Decade of Printing
| Image sheet (11-04-03)
Original Cast Recordings
(02-11-03)
Passion’s Discipline :
The History of the Sonnet in the British Isles and America (04-09-03)
| Exhibition
brochure (pdf)
Poetry of Sight: The Prints of James
McNeill Whistler (1-17-03)
Prokofiev and His Contemporaries: The
Impact of Soviet Culture (10-03-03)
Puppetry of Shadow and Light
(06-03-03)short release (09-11-02)
Russia Engages the World, 1453
- 1825 (07-09-03) | Programs
September 11 Photo Project
(08-04-03) | Related films
Vaslav Nijinsky: Creating
A New Artistic Era (02-05-03) | website
2002
The Best of Times:
The Theatre of Charles Dickens, short release (10-31-02) | short
release (10-01-02)
Cabinet of Curiosities
(05-16-02) | short release (02-28-02)
Capturing Nureyev:
James Wyeth Paints the Dancer (2-26-02)
Children's Books
in Performance (06-17-02)
Declaration of Independence
on display (06-11-02)
Exhibitions Calendar
Spring 2002 (01-02)
Exhibitions Calendar
Fall 2002 (07-02)
Illuminated Manuscripts
and the Dawn of Printing (08-01-02)
I on Infrastructure
(05-10-02)
Japanese
Scrolls
Kurt Weill: Making Music Theater
(02-04-02)
A Legacy in Landscapes
(08-21-02)
Liturgical Manuscripts:
12 rarely seen religious texts (03-05-02)
New York Eats Out , on
history of dining in New York. | Q
& A with William Grimes | Buttolph
Menu Collection
Original Cast Recordings ,
short release (10-01-02)
Renaissance Bindings
for Henri II (10-31-02)
Richard Rodgers at 100
(06-05-02)
Souvenirs of a Veteran Collector
(02-28-02)
Theater.Ink: The Art of Sam
Norkin (11-07-02)
Urban Neighbors:
Images of New York City Wildlife (09-12-02) | Fact
sheet | Related Programs |
Website
Victorians, Moderns, and
Beats: New in the Berg Collection, 1994-2001 (04-12-02) | short
release (02-28-02)
2001
American Originals :
original documents from the National Archives offer window on pivotal
moments of American history (09-14-01) | Exhibition
webpage
Celebrity Caricature
in America : stage and screen stars, literary luminaries, politicians,
and socialites mingle in this exhibition (04-18-01) | Exhibition
webpage
Diversity Endangered
at Science, Industry and Business Library (12-23-01)
Emancipation Proclamation
-- Special four-day display (10-14-01) | media
alert
Exhibitions Calendar
fall 2001 (07-01)
Heading West traces
the evolution of the American West in maps | Exhibition
website (01-30-01)
Public's Treasures
showcases rare Americana (08-20-01)
Touring West explores
how the West was entertained | Exhibition
website (01-31-01)
Transformations
showcases rare materials from the Library's performing arts collections
| Exhibition
website (09-04-01)
2000
Heavens Above: Art and Actuality .
19th-century art meets modern NASA images (12-08-00)| Exhibition
website .
Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over
Slavery -- Schomburg exhibition on 400 years of Black History
(09-12-00)
Struggle for Black Freedom
& the Emancipation Proclamation , at Schomburg (9-22-00)
Utopia
exhibition examines the search for the ideal society. Related releases:The other side of Utopia as seen by
Charles Addams | Programs in New York
| Partnership between NYPL and BnF|
Upgrade of Library Gallery unveiled (09-14-00)
| Exhibition website
1999
Berenice Abbott's Science Photography
(9-16-99)
Earth From Above: photographs
(10-5-99)
Inventing the American Past:
The Art of [Illustrator] F.O.C. Darley (3-29-99)
Nabokov's Life and Work
(05-21-99)
Netherlandish Prints
(5-27-99)
Order and Disorder: Architectural
Transitions in Prints and Photographs (2-3-99)
Poet Robert Creeley's Collaborations
(9-20-99)
Sight/Insight: Contemporary
Prints Inspired by Science and Nature (09-16-99)
Seeing Is Believing: Scientific
and Medical Illustrations (9-27-99)
Weird Science: Drawings by Charles
Addams (9-23-99)
Yeats, William
Butler (06-07-99)
1998
Eight Million Stories: 20th-Century
New York City Life, Prints and Photographs (9-18-98)
Giard (Robert): "Particular Voices"/Photographs
(3-26-98)
Maps and Charts Depict the "New
World" (9-25-98)
One Hundred Years Later: New
Perspectives on the Spanish-American War (3-16-98)
1997
American Ballet Theatre's Legacy:
Great Commissioned Dances (10-21-97)
Cotillion to Cakewalk: Social
Dance (5-9-97)
Dance Memorabilia (5-15-97)
Maiden Voyages: First Books
by Great American Authors (3-25-97)
Moving Uptown: 19th-Century
Views of Manhattan and the City's Growth Northward (12-23-97)
Music for the Cinema (5-19-97)
Musica Popular/Misique Popilé/Popular
Music of the Caribbean (5-9-97)
Poetry's "Mimeo Revolution" (12-23-97)
Romanov Dynasty: Books from
Russia's Imperial Palace Libraries (10-10-97)
Subject Matters: NYPL's Picture
Collection and Its Creator, Romana Javitz
Swinging Sounds of the Big Band
Era (5-16-97)
Tobacco Leaves to Works of
Art (9-13-97)
Tobacco: Use and Abuse in
History (9-13-97)
Tyndale (William) and the Making
of the English Bible (1-29-97)
Wollstonecraft (Mary) and Mary
Shelley (4-10-97)
1996
Artful Interiors (11-1-96)
Headlines, Deadlines, Bylines:
The New York Times Morgue, 1896-1996 (3-15-96)
History of Women Photographers
(10-08-96)
Inside and Out: Costumes of
Barbara Matera, Ltd . (9-30-96)
Romance of the Stone: Lithography,
1796-1825 (08-06-96)
mm: web: 09-26-06
