• 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…

  • Sounding Circuits: Audible Histories

    January 14–March 23, 2019
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

    Sounding Circuits: Audible Histories explores the networks of composers and engineers - as well as the groundbreaking…

  • The People's Theater: Celebrating 75 years of New York City Center

    October 23, 2018–March 2, 2019
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

    This celebration of City Center’s 75th Anniversary will fill visitors with the thrill of the performing arts that, to this day,…

  • 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…