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Walter Damrosch: Classical Music's Critical Conductor
March 17–April 22, 2022The New York Public Library for the Performing ArtsIn this case installation, we feature photos, sheet music manuscripts, and letters from the archive of Walter Damrosch, best remembered…
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The Skinny on Broadsides: 19th Century Music Broadsides
March 17–April 22, 2022The New York Public Library for the Performing ArtsIn this vitrine installation, we look at a selection of broadsides, or single sheets of paper with text printed sharing information…
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Celebrating Passover with Library Collections
Online OnlyStephen A. Schwarzman BuildingThis web exhibition presents an array of special materials from The New York Public Library's Dorot Jewish Division and other research…
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Remembering Betty White
January 31–April 20, 2022The New York Public Library for the Performing ArtsThis pop-up installation includes photographs and ephemera of Betty White from the Billy Rose Theatre Division that document her most… -
Wolf Eyes Library Style
Online OnlyThe New York Public Library for the Performing ArtsFor 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, 2022Stephen A. Schwarzman BuildingMarch 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, 2022The New York Public Library for the Performing ArtsDiscover 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, 2022The New York Public Library for the Performing ArtsThe 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, 2022Schomburg Center for Research in Black CultureThis exhibition highlights several of the ways that abolitionists engaged with the arts to agitate for enslaved people’s liberty in the… -
Winter Wonderland: George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®
Online OnlyThe New York Public Library for the Performing ArtsIt is so much a part of the holidays in New York that it is now hard to imagine a time when George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker® did not…