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Memory Preserved: Glass Plate Photographs of the Royal Cambodian Dancers
March 28–May 31, 2013The New York Public Library for the Performing ArtsThese rare images of five principal women dancers from the Royal Ballet of Cambodia are on display in the United States for the first time.… -
Sailor Twain's New York: Secrets and Mysteries of the River Hudson
October 25, 2012–April 28, 2013Stephen A. Schwarzman BuildingSailor Twain returns to one of its sources, finding new life and context among NYPL collections that helped inspire its creation. -
The Rose Haggadah
March 15–April 14, 2013Stephen A. Schwarzman BuildingIn three volumes, the Rose Haggadah brings together 50 years of Passover-themed artwork, ranging stylistically all the way from “New York… -
Visualizing Emancipation
October 11, 2012–March 16, 2013Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture -
Echoes of Silence: Philip Trager, Early Photographs, 1967-83
October 12, 2012–February 17, 2013Stephen A. Schwarzman BuildingEnjoy the quietly relentless formal beauty of Philip Trager’s early photography in this free exhibition. -
Lunch Hour NYC
November 1, 2012–February 17, 2013Stephen A. Schwarzman BuildingDrawing on materials from throughout the Library, the exhibition explores the ways in which New York City—work-obsessed, time-obsessed, and… -
From Cover to Cover: 20 Years of African Voices
December 8, 2012–January 29, 2013Schomburg Center for Research in Black CultureArtwork from the magazine’s front and back covers will anchor the exhibition. Photo essays and other archival pieces will give viewers a… -
Charles Dickens: The Key to Character
September 14, 2012–January 27, 2013Stephen A. Schwarzman BuildingThe Key to Character celebrates the power of Dickens’s characters to be imagined ever anew, examining important precedents for his art of… -
Martha Swope: In Rehearsal
September 27, 2012–January 26, 2013The New York Public Library for the Performing ArtsThis exhibition focuses on Swope's photographs of the rehearsal process, highlighting her understanding of movement while illuminating how… -
Katharine Hepburn: Dressed for Stage and Screen
October 18, 2012–January 12, 2013The New York Public Library for the Performing ArtsKatharine Hepburn: Dressed for Stage and Screen includes costumes Katharine Hepburn kept in her personal collection of performance clothes,…
