• Subversion & The Art of Slavery Abolition

    March 12, 2021–January 22, 2022
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
    This 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 Only
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
    It 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…

  • Traveling While Black: A Century of Pleasure & Pain & Pilgrimage

    March 12–December 11, 2021
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
    Since the start of their experience in the Americas, Black people have been defined by travel, displacement, and resistance. 

  • Brick By Brick, Putting It Together: The Broadway Set Miniatures of Henry Lee

    September 17–December 11, 2021
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
    Company, Follies, Evita, The Phantom of the Opera, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd. These popular Broadway shows and iconic sets will be…

  • Freedom's Founders

    Online Only
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
    The Fourth of July inspires both celebration and reflection. Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence proclaimed “life, liberty,…

  • Showing Out: Fashion in Harlem

    September 9–September 30, 2021
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
    Showing Out: Fashion in Harlem spotlights HIF’s fashion shows and celebrates the organization’s efforts to amplify the contributions of…

  • Georgia on My Mind: Black Politicians in Congress

    Online Only
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
    This online exhibition highlights 22 Black men who served in the U.S. Congress; two in the Senate and twenty in the House of…

  • Femmetography: The Gaze Shifted

    June 3, 2019–December 30, 2020
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
    Femmetography: The Gaze Shifted explores a critical engagement with the black feminine gaze, using Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe’s book…

  • Made at NYPL

    November 14, 2019–July 3, 2020
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    Writers, scholars, artists, and innovators from around the world come to delve into NYPL’s deep and sweeping repository of more than 46…

  • In the Company of Harold Prince: Broadway Producer, Director, Collaborator

    September 17, 2019–March 31, 2020
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

    This exhibition will illuminate the team of designers, stage managers, press agents, composers, and writers Hal Prince assembled to…