• Walt Whitman: America's Poet

    March 27–September 5, 2019
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    Drawing from collections across the Library, Walt Whitman: America's Poet examines many of the individuals, beliefs,…

  • Herman Melville at The New York Public Library

    July 19–August 24, 2019
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    Herman Melville at The New York Public Library features items from the Library’s Manuscripts and Archives Division, one of…

  • Second Stage Theater: Four Decades of Producing Living American Playwrights

    April 16–August 17, 2019
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

    Come celebrate the decades of plays and musicals that have defined Second Stage as the home for living American playwrights. This…

  • Love & Resistance: Stonewall 50

    February 14–July 14, 2019
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    The Stonewall Riots were a flash point in LGBTQ history. After the riots that took place at the Stonewall Inn in June 1969, the LGBTQ…

  • CRUSADER: Martin Luther King Jr.

    January 15–July 5, 2019
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
    Crusader presents an intimate photo travelogue of King’s month-long pilgrimage to India, his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo,…

  • The Declaration of Independence, Handwritten

    July 1–July 2, 2019
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    The New York Public Library holds in its vast collections one of the rarest and most important documents in American history: an…

  • Syncretic Vibrations: Exploring the Mosaic of Blackness

    June 13, 2018–June 11, 2019
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

    Through research, discussion, and creative investigation, this exhibition engages in a call and response with the collection of…

  • Mapping Contagion: Representing Infectious Disease in New York City

    November 17, 2018–May 19, 2019
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    This display explores over one hundred years of mapping contagion in the city of New York. Prototypical examples of the mapping of…

  • Voice of My City: Jerome Robbins and New York

    September 25, 2018–March 30, 2019
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

    Voice of My City traces Robbins’ life and dances alongside the history of New York, inspiring viewers to see the city as…

  • Highlighted Items from the Lou Reed Archive

    March 14–March 28, 2019
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

    The Library for the Performing Arts will showcase materials from the Lou Reed Archive in a third floor display marking the 30th…