• Phenomenal Woman: Maya Angelou, 1928–2014

    May 30–June 30, 2014
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
    This exhibition offers an intimate look at Angelou’s process as a writer and thinker and includes handwritten and typed drafts of I Know…
  • Portraits of Sound

    March 13–June 21, 2014
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
    In Portraits of Sound, Ernestine Ruben captured New York Philharmonic musicians as they relate to their instruments and to the sounds they…
  • Funky Turns 40: Black Character Revolution

    February 5–June 14, 2014
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
    Funky Turns 40, from the Museum of Uncut Funk, explores black animated characters from the late 1960s and early 1970s and the impact they…
  • The Deep South–Then & Now

    February 1–May 31, 2014
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
    This exhibition showcases 25 contemporary images taken by photographer Kenneth B. Goldberg when he visited some of the landmark places of…
  • Ladies and Gentlemen...The Beatles!

    February 6–May 10, 2014
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
    Ladies and Gentlemen…The Beatles! brings us back to the early ‘60s when rock & roll was re-energized—some say saved—by four lads from…
  • Holocaust Remembrance: From the Collections

    April 24–May 7, 2014
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    Marking Holocaust Remembrance Day—Yom HaShoah draws from the holdings of the Dorot Jewish Division, the Rare Book Division, and the Wallach…
  • The Rose Seder Book

    April 4–April 22, 2014
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    The Rose Seder Book is a unique artists’ book, the result of an innovative annual commission from the Rose family, presented to the…
  • New York City History on Display

    April 4–April 7, 2014
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    In conjunction with the programs on April 5th celebrating our NYC historical collections and the researchers that plumb their depths, our…
  • Why We Fight: Remembering AIDS Activism

    October 4, 2013–April 6, 2014
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    Acknowledging the crucial work of all AIDS activists, Why We Fight focuses on the contributions of those whose work was undertaken in New…
  • Play Things

    November 22, 2013–March 16, 2014
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    Play Things explores the long and varied tradition of how works on paper not only participated in but actively facilitated conditions of…