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Search for a past exhibition. The Future Beneath Us: 8 Great Projects Under New York This joint exhibition, a project of the New York City Transit Museum and the Science, Industry and Business Library (SIBL), focuses on eight megaprojects planned by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. In a unique effort, exhibitions at two venues—SIBL’s Healy Hall and the Grand Central Gallery of the Transit Museum—combine to provide a single view of future directions. The Library spotlights City Water Tunnel No. 3, the Trans-Hudson Express Tunnel, the Water Filtration project, and the World Trade Center Transportation Hub. The Transit Museum features the East Side Access project, the Second Avenue Subway project, the Fulton Street Transit Center, and the #7 Line West Side Subway Extension. Images and sounds drawn from the resources of the Transit Museum, the Library, and the concerned agencies reveal the unseen and ongoing efforts. Projections from the agencies, reports on the current status of the projects, and design information serve to suggest the impact these projects will have on the future of New York City and its people in terms of quality of service, improved security, and overall economic and social well being. Lloyd Goldsmith: Downtown at the End of The Twentieth Century “In setting out to paint the continuities, to focus on what’s the same day after day rather than on what’s different, Lloyd Goldsmith necessarily, and knowingly, paints an abstract city,” writes Kevin Oderman in the monograph Downtown at the End of the Twentieth Century. This exhibition of Goldsmith’s painting is complemented by illustrations from Oderman’s book, indicating the process and development of the painting over a period of several years. Notes Goldsmith, “My subject is New York—my hometown—the urban landscape. To me, the city is organic growth; layer over layer, always in transition, be it a small change of a storefront or a major destruction and redevelopment.” Not a Cough In A Carload: Images Used By Tobacco Companies To Hide the Hazards of Smoking Early in the last century, questions about the health effects of smoking became a topic of widespread discussion, as terms like “smoker’s cough” and “coffin nails” (referring to cigarettes) began to appear in the popular vernacular. Recognizing the need to counter this threat to their livelihood, tobacco companies undertook a multifaceted campaign to allay the public’s fears. One strategy was to promote smoking as a beneficial practice through endorsements by healthy and vigorous-appearing singers, Hollywood stars, elite athletes, and actors posing as medical professionals. This exhibition, created by Dr. Robert Jackler of the Stanford University Medical School, examines the advertising in which, between the late 1920s and the early 1950s, tobacco companies tried to reassure the public of the safety of their products. Real Men and Women of Madison Avenue: Their Impact on American Culture “Does She or Doesn’t She?” “Think Different.” “I Want My MTV.” “Melts in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hands.” “Just Do It.” “Got Milk?” “Where’s the Beef?” These slogans are part of the American zeitgeist, but little is known about many of the people who created them—the culturally astute men and women who tapped so successfully into their generations’ desires and fears. This first-of-its-kind exhibition, presented by The One Club and The New York Public Library, shows that the people who created some of the most famous advertisements of the 20th century were as colorful as their slogans—from former spy David Ogilvy to scrappy street fighter George Lois, to tough, hardworking women such as Mary Wells Lawrence, Phyllis Robinson, and Shirley Polykoff, who held their own in the famously male world of 1950s and 1960s Mad Ave. The exhibition highlights the lives and work of dozens of brilliant copywriters and art directors who helped shape American consumption and culture over the past 80 years. The Real Men and Women of Madison Avenue: Their Impact on American Culture features more than 200 advertisements, posters, books, TV commercials, and video and audio interviews that amount to a commercial history of 20th-century America. The majority of the men and women represented have been elected into The One Club’s Creative Hall of Fame. The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic  When the Willard Psychiatric Center in New York’s Finger Lakes region closed in 1995, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered in an abandoned attic room. As a team of committed curators explored these belongings, individual histories were revealed and The Lives They Left Behind exhibition was born. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich, complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments and community connections, as well as their loss and isolation. These stories make The Suitcase Exhibit a poignant illumination of both the humanity and struggle of those with mental illness historically, while illustrating the vital importance of quality care, compassion, and the hope of recovery today. Image: The Octagon. New York City Lunatic Asylum. Blackwell's Island (now Roosevelt Island) 1839. Lower Manhattan 2010: It's Happening Now  Lower Manhattan 2010: It's Happening Now is an exhibit designed by the Lower Manhattan Command Center (LMCCC) to present images and text describing the major rebuilding projects underway in New York City from Chambers Street south to the Battery.
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Ads Matter  ADS MATTER is an Ad Council exhibit which documents the advertising industry's long standing commitment to better America by producing compelling public service campaigns. Smokey Bear and McGruff the Crime Dog are among the icons depicted in images from a dozen memorable ads. The exhibit will be accompanied by a number of programs related to advertising and the media. Places & Spaces: Mapping Science  The exhibit compares traditional historical mapping of political entities with the mapping of individual fields of scientific research. Science is mapped by tracking citations to papers indexed in the Web of Science database. Panels in the exhibit will present traditional early maps and several specific instances of the mapping of science. An interactive module will permit the viewer to create a digital map of a specific area of science. Exhibition Brochure (PDF) Opt In to Advertising's New Age  This exhibition focuses on the history of advertising, from print and radio to television and the Internet. Showcasing some of the most creative ads of all time, the exhibit also provides a vision of the ways in which technology will continue to be an integral part of how marketers and consumers experience advertising well into the future. The seminal advertising from each era – print, radio, television, and the Internet – will be brought to life through the devices that enabled them to be, all against a backdrop displaying the historical and cultural context in which the technologies first flowered. A large-screen monitor, set within a bezel of large offset letter blocks, will display the great milestone print advertisements from the 1900s to the present day. A gigantic radio will play the famed ads from the 1920s to the present, with the dial tuning in to each decade. And an oversized television will play some of the most decisive and effective television ads of all time. The exhibit will culminate with an interactive encounter that will allow users to experience the future of advertising, which embraces a synergy across all media, linked by the Web. Though the exhibit begins in a distant era, it will aptly demonstrate how all the ads and technologies remain very vital and important in today’s marketplace. By the end of the experience, viewers will also understand how creativity has always been the key to success when mastering any new advertising technology. The exhibit, produced in collaboration with the Online Publishers Association, runs in conjunction with Advertising Week in NYC – a week-long celebration of advertising in New York. The 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. The exhibition focuses on Parsons as a collector, prominent New York City personage, military engineering specialist, educator, and, primarily, as chief engineer of the New York City subway system. Tracing the planning and financing stages of the project, the exhibition includes correspondence between Parsons and August Belmont, the major financier of the project, as well as photographs of the signing of the original contract. The construction phase of the subway system is documented by images of Parsons turning the first shovelful of earth and others showing the actual tunnel and street digging. Other items on view include images of the beautiful iron artwork supplied by the Hecla Iron Works, publications and documents illustrating station ceramic work and station design, and the first subway tickets. read more... Image: Inspection of City Hall Subway Station, 1904. Courtesy of Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc. Honest Jim: James Watson the Writer  This exhibit will focus on Dr. James Watson, co-discoverer with Francis Crick of the DNA double helix, as a writer and will follow a timeline beginning with his boyhood. The exhibition will include letters to his family through his academic years, material from the University of Chicago Library collection, and his published books and papers reflecting his professional life. The exhibition will also include works by other scientists, such as Charles Darwin, who are of both literary and scientific importance. Image: James Watson lecturing about DNA in 1953. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Seeking the Secret of Life: The DNA Story in New York  The year 2003 marks the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the DNA double helix, one of the greatest and most influential scientific discoveries ever. Researchers in New York made significant contributions along the route to the double helix and the exhibition highlights these contributions. The exhibit's primary theme is the research that lay on a direct path to the double helix and was carried out at Columbia University, Rockefeller University, and the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The exhibit is intended for the lay public and will place the discovery in a social and historic context. Image: James Watson (left) and Francis Crick, with their model of the structure of DNA. Photo: Anthony Barrington Brown, Photo Research, Inc. I on Infrastructure  I on Infrastructure brings a new twist to civil engineering by exploring the intellectual, cultural, and social contexts that shape the world's infrastructure. Marrying art and technology concepts, this show juxtaposes pop art with images of bridges, plumbing fixtures, and traffic signs to examine how the eye and the mind perceive engineering design. The exhibition will be on display in Healy Hall from May 22 to December 14, 2002. Diversity Endangered  Diversity Endangered,a traveling exhibition from SITES, the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, examines the causes, consequences, and potential solutions to the loss of biological diversity. Included are reproductions of color photographs, artists' renderings, and text for 15 posters. Rain forest, coral reefs, and wetlands are among the issues covered. The Smithsonian material will be complemented by materials from the Science, Industry and Business Library's collections. The exhibition was on display in Healy Hall from October 15, 2001 to May 13, 2002. Heavens Above: Art & Actuality  An online exhibit that compares the 19th-century chromolithographs of astronomical observations made by artist/astronomer Etienne Trouvelot with comparable images photographed by NASA as part of its space program. Earth from Above: An Aerial Portrait on the Eve of the Year 2000  The photographs of Yann Arthus-Bertrand portray the marvels of the natural world and man's presence as seen from the air. This fascinating series of giant color photographs was on view in Earth from Above: An Aerial Portrait on the Eve of the Year 2000, in Healy Hall of The New York Public Library's Science, Industry and Business Library, 188 Madison Avenue at 34th Street, October 26, 1999 through January 29, 2000. |