• Border Crossings: Exile and American Modern Dance 1900-1955

    June 8, 2023–March 16, 2024
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center celebrates the fundamental contributions of

  • Regina Resnik, A New York Treasure

    September 21, 2023–February 10, 2024
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

    The Music and Recorded Sound Division of the Library for the Performing Arts presents this exhibition of materials from the opera singer…

  • Max Beerbohm: The Price of Celebrity

    October 20, 2023–January 27, 2024
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    Celebrity became an international industry in the late nineteenth century, and the English artist, author, and dandy Max Beerbohm…

  • Equal Rights Amendment: A Century of Speaking Out

    September 23, 2023–January 6, 2024
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    The Equal Rights Amendment was first proposed in 1923. NYPL marks the 100th anniversary of this important moment with an exhibition that…

  • A Dickens Christmas

    December 1, 2023–January 6, 2024
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    This holiday season, the Library is celebrating with a special installation featuring Dickens’s heavily annotated…

  • New York Subways 1977: Alen MacWeeney

    September 23, 2023–January 6, 2024
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    Explore subway scenes from 1977 through the work of photographer Alen MacWeeney.

  • Watercolors Amongst Friends

    Online Only
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

    Letters between Arturo Schomburg and illustrator, Albert Alexander Smith from the 1930s discuss the acquisition of these newly digitized…

  • Michael Cummings & A Bygone Era in Art

    Online Only
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

    Beginning in the 1970s, American artist and quiltmaker Michael A. Cummings began collecting Black art event ephemera. Recently…

  • Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration

    May 1–December 4, 2023
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

    Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration explores the impact of the US prison system on contemporary visual art.…

  • Lola L. Szladits: Devoted Guardian of Literary Delights

    July 29–September 24, 2023
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building