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  • black and white photo of Faith Ringgold speaking at a microphone. Several flags are displayed behind her.

    Flags in Art as Protest

    By Tereza Chanaki, Research Associate, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature | January 22, 2025

    Case studies of artists Faith Ringgold and Vito Acconci examine ways in which flags used in art as protest and can face censorship.

  • Miriam Yosef, in a blue blouse, standing and looking at the camera.

    NYPL Researcher Spotlight: Miriam Yosef

    By Jeanne-Marie Musto, Librarian II | January 21, 2025

    How do perceptions of Ashkenazi Jews shape power dynamics within and beyond Jewish communities? Miriam Yosef tells of her research. 

  • Selection of Lunar New Year titles on a red background.

    Books for Celebrating the Year of the Snake

    By Cecelia Fiering, Library Information Assistant | January 21, 2025

    Happy Year of the Snake! Enjoy titles collected by AANHPI library workers to celebrate the Lunar New Year. 

  • Patricia Spears Jones on stage with Brent Hayes Edwards

    Library Talks: New York State Poet Patricia Spears Jones in Conversation with Brent Hayes Edwards

    By NYPL Staff | January 21, 2025

    Join New York State Poet Laureate Patricia Spears Jones in conversation with Brent Hayes Edwards.

  • A collage of photos showing of students in the Junior Scholars Program looking at collection materials in Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books and Photographs & Prints divisions.

    Junior Scholars Explore Collection Materials in Schomburg Center Divisions for Spring 2025 Research Project

    By Lisa Herndon, Manager, Schomburg Communications and Publications | January 21, 2025

    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

    Students in the Junior Scholars Programs visited Schomburg Center divisions as part of their research project for their 2025 Youth Summit.

  • headshot of Jane Sugarman

    NYPL Researcher Spotlight: Jane Sugarman

    By Bogdan Horbal, Curator, Slavic and East European Collections | January 21, 2025

    Jane Sugarman is an ethnomusicologist and Professor Emerita of Music at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). 

  • collage of images including a photo of notebooks, a page of handwritiing, and a handmade cover of a children's story

    The New York Public Library Acquires Archive of Jhumpa Lahiri

    By Carolyn Vega, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Curator of English and American Literature | January 17, 2025

    The papers chart Lahiri’s rise in the literary world, from her Pulitzer Prize-winning debut story collection to her recent translation work.

  • head & torso of man with full white beard and glasses, in black suit jacket, smiling at camera

    NYPL Researcher Spotlight: Yitz Twersky

    By Jeanne-Marie Musto, Librarian II | January 16, 2025

    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    Yitz Twersky, descendant of a Chassidic rabbinic dynasty, tells of his research to keep the names of rabbis who died in the Holocaust alive.

  • collage of three book covers

    Writers Born in the Year of the Snake

    By NYPL Staff | January 15, 2025

    Personality traits associated with people born in a snake year include: introspection, resourcefulness, and charm. 

  • interior of a library storage space showing rows of metal cabinets with slim drawers

    NYPL Receives NEH Grant to Create Sustainable Construction Design Standards for Reading Rooms, Workrooms, and Storage

    By NYPL Staff | January 15, 2025

    The grant award will bring together experts to develop a model template that can be shared with other institutions.