• Andrés Barba and Alberto Pina: Artists' Books

    April 8–April 24, 2022
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    This display presents four artists’ books made by the Spanish artist Alberto Pina and Spanish writer Andrés Barba.

  • The Skinny on Broadsides: 19th Century Music Broadsides

    March 17–April 22, 2022
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

    In this vitrine installation, we look at a selection of broadsides, or single sheets of paper with text printed sharing information…

  • Walter Damrosch: Classical Music's Critical Conductor

    March 17–April 22, 2022
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

    In this case installation, we feature photos, sheet music manuscripts, and letters from the archive of Walter Damrosch, best remembered…

  • Remembering Betty White

    January 31–April 20, 2022
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
    This pop-up installation includes photographs and ephemera of Betty White from the Billy Rose Theatre Division that document her most…
  • Celebrating Passover with Library Collections

    Online Only
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    This web exhibition presents an array of special materials from The New York Public Library's Dorot Jewish Division and other research…

  • Wolf Eyes Library Style

    Online Only
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
    For their residency at the Library for the Performing Arts, Wolf Eyes was inspired by the Library’s collection to create musical…
  • Visions of Jack Kerouac: A Centennial Celebration

    March 5–April 3, 2022
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    March 12, 2022, marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of novelist, poet, and counterculture icon Jack Kerouac, one of the most…
  • Women's Suffrage in Music & Recorded Sound

    January 5–March 31, 2022
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
    Discover published suffrage and anti-suffrage music for a glimpse of history in this two vitrine display.
  • Remembering Stephen Sondheim: Pop-Up Installation

    January 10–February 12, 2022
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts honors the legacy of late American composer Stephen Sondheim with a small pop-up…
  • Subversion & The Art of Slavery Abolition

    March 12, 2021–January 22, 2022
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
    This exhibition highlights several of the ways that abolitionists engaged with the arts to agitate for enslaved people’s liberty in the…