• Lincoln Center's Posters and Prints: 50 Years of the Vera List Program

    September 19, 2012–January 5, 2013
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
    This exhibition presents a selection of posters and prints from the program’s past 50 years by renowned artists Helen Frankenthaler, Roy…
  • Movements and Moments in Spring

    March 12–December 31, 2012
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
    Movements and Moments in Spring was organized and curated by Gloria Aziza Lawyer to celebrate the 53rd anniversary of this historical…
  • GMAD at 25: A History in Words and Images

    February 1–December 31, 2012
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
    Since 1986, GMAD has served as a center for education, advocacy and social support for black gay men in New York. The exhibition will…
  • Gordon Parks: 100 Moments

    July 12–December 1, 2012
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
    Gordon Parks: 100 Moments celebrates a photographer who transformed the visual story of America with his ever-questioning lens,…
  • Mercator at 500

    March 12–September 30, 2012
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    A great innovator, Gerard Mercator created some of the first modern maps and atlases; in doing so, he built a bridge to the present using…
  • All Hands on Deck: Remembering the Titanic (1912-2012)

    March 30–August 31, 2012
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
    All Hands on Deck: Remembering the Titanic (1912-2012), curated by LPA's Music Division, exhibits items from our collections to commemorate…
  • Rock and Roll Icons: Photographs by Patrick Harbron

    May 10–August 10, 2012
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
    Rock and Roll Icons: Photographs by Patrick Harbron is a new exhibition taken from Harbron’s rock and roll concert and portrait photography…
  • Moneta Sleet, Jr.: Pulitzer Prize Photojournalist

    July 12–August 2, 2012
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
    This retrospective collection of more than 100 photographs, drawn largely from images Sleet shot for Johnson Publishing, divides his work…
  • The Great American Revue: How Ziegfeld, White and their Rivals Remade Broadway

    April 19–July 21, 2012
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
    To devotees of the American Songbook, revues were the laboratories in which Berlin, Rodgers & Hart, Schwartz, Gorney, Harburg, Rome, and…
  • Taking Fun Seriously: Doodle 4 Google 2012 May

    May 12–July 19, 2012
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    The country’s top doodles are here! The work of the 50 State Winners of the Doodle 4 Google 2012 contest have arrived from across the…