• Blue Prints: The Pioneering Photographs of Anna Atkins

    October 19, 2018–February 17, 2019
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    This exhibition draws upon more than a decade of careful research and sets Atkins and her much-admired work in context, shedding new…

  • Anna Atkins Refracted: Contemporary Works

    September 28, 2018–January 6, 2019
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    This exhibition brings together a diversity of works by 19 contemporary artists whose respective practices attest to the wide reach and…

  • Season's Greetings from The New York Public Library's Picture Collection

    December 3, 2018–January 6, 2019
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    This holiday season, discover an array of heartwarming holiday postcards preserved over the years at The New York Public…

  • Listening at the Library

    November 19, 2018–January 2, 2019
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

    Listening at the Library is an immersive experience featuring recordings from The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts’…

  • Firelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire

    May 1–November 24, 2018
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

    The  Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Studio Museum in Harlem are proud to present Firelei Báez: Joy Out of…

  • Only After the Deepest Darkness

    October 23–November 10, 2018
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

    Only After the Deepest Darkness: The “Lost” Chapter & Manuscript of The Autobiography of Malcolm X …

  • Black Power 50!

    February 5, 2017–November 5, 2018
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
    Black Power! curated by Dr. Sylviane A. Diouf presents photographs, documents, and ephemera, as well as video and audio material that…

  • Celebrating 75 Years of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Musical

    May 23–September 25, 2018
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

    Seventy five years ago, in March of 1943, Rodgers and Hammerstein revolutionized musical theatre on Broadway with their first…

  • You Say You Want a Revolution: Remembering the 60s

    January 19–September 1, 2018
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    Part of a citywide celebration of the 1960s, this exhibition explores the breadth and significance of this pivotal era—from communal…

  • Picturing the City: Illustrated Maps of NYC

    September 13, 2017–July 31, 2018
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    This display—guest-curated and written by Katharine Harmon, author of You Are Here –
    NYC: Mapping the Soul of the City—features a…