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Exhibitions and special displays at the Library's many locations showcase our rich and varied collections.

Current Exhibitions

  • Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color

    Schomburg Center
    Now through June 29, 2013

    Born in Boston in 1905 and trained at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Loïs Mailou Jones began her career at a time when racial prejudices and gender discrimination were strong in American culture. This exhibition surveys the vast sweep of Jones’s seventy-five 

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  • Africans In India: From Slaves to Generals and Rulers

    Schomburg Center
    Now through July 18, 2013

    Extended!

    Over the centuries, East Africans have greatly distinguished themselves in India as generals, commanders, admirals, architects, prime ministers, and rulers. They have written a story unparalleled in the rest of the world: that of enslaved Africans 

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  • American Sabor: Latinos in US Popular Music

    Library for the Performing Arts
    Now through July 13, 2013

     
     
     
    American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music, a traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian, presents the musical contributions of U.S. Latinos from the 1940s to the present, exploring the social history and individual creativity that produced stars like 

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  • Back Tomorrow: Federico García Lorca / Poet in New York

    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    Now through July 20, 2013

    In June 1929, at a time when young writers and painters dreamed of living in Paris, Federico García Lorca (1898–1936), Spain’s greatest modern poet and playwright, broke boldly with tradition and sailed for New York. His nine months here, 

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  • Daring Methods: The Prints of Mary Cassatt

    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    Now through June 23, 2013

    In 1875, after being rejected by the official Paris Salon, where she had been exhibiting her paintings, American artist Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) accepted Edgar Degas’s (1834–1917) invitation to join the Impressionist group. Cassatt created her earliest surviving prints in 

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  • Flamenco: 100 Years of Flamenco in New York

    Library for the Performing Arts
    Now through August 3, 2013

    The multi-media exhibition is an integral part of collaboration between The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana. Photographs, costumes and performance regalia, film, oral histories, and the sound of castanets and taconeo will entertain and 

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Community Showcases

Select locations provide space to community groups, organizations or individuals to showcase works that the Library determines will further its mission.

  • "Forever" An exhibit of modern reprints of ancient Sri Lankan art by Dona Kiriella

    St. George Library Center
    Now through June 30, 2013

    The customs and rituals of Sri Lanka have been handed down from generation to generation. Ancient temple paintings and wall paintings were based on many customs and rituals connected with the day-to-day lives of people in both social and religious spheres. Sri Lankan culture today is a pleasant 

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  • Art Work by Zulay Valero

    Yorkville
    Now through October 31, 2013

    Display of paintings by Zulay Valero.

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  • Basement Sanctuaries by Gesche Würfel

    Inwood
    Now through June 27, 2013

    Artist Gesche Würfel presents Basement Sanctuaries, a photo project that explores the ways in which superintendents decorate basements of apartment buildings in Inwood and Washington Heights. In doing so, the artist illuminates the process of migrant adaptation to the metropolis from an 

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  • Disparando Disparates (Shooting the Absurd) Photos by S. Ivan Torres

    Bronx Library Center
    Now through July 14, 2013

    Photo Exhibit by S. Ivan Torres

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  • Elizabeth Felicella - Reading Room - Art Wall on Third Exhibition Series

    Mid-Manhattan Library
    Now through August 21, 2013

    The Art Collection, 3rd Floor

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  • Fred Gutzeit - Found Objects/Dog Portraits

    Mulberry Street
    Now through August 30, 2013

    Fred Gutzeit has been an acclaimed artist living in the Lower East Side for over 40 years. His works range the gamut from still lives, to landscapes, to even portraits - of dogs. His large scale works will be on display in the Mulberry Street Adult Reading Room, and the dog portraits on 

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  • Michael Pegues - Children of the World

    Mulberry Street
    Now through August 30, 2013

    SoHo artist Michael Pegues made this piece especially for the Mulberry Street Library. His message is one of injecting fun and creativity into everyday life, which comes through in his vibrant, glittering artwork. Mr. Pegues has tought art to children, and has sold pieces from his 

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  • Orgullo in Organizing: New York Latino Workers History and Legacy, 1930’s-2010’s

    Bronx Library Center
    Now through June 30, 2013

    This exhibition traces "orgullo" or "pride" - the participation of Latinos in organized labor movements in New York, drawing on the collections of the Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños, Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora and donated materials from 

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  • Pinocchio's Journey from Italy

    Belmont
    Now through June 29, 2013

    The Enrico Fermi Cultural Committee has created a colorful display of puppets, marionettes, dolls, puzzles, games, books, and images to illustrate "Pinocchio's Journey from Italy." The centerpiece is a five-foot wooden doll of Pinocchio that was handcrafted in Italy.

    Pinocchio 

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  • Play Button - Art in the Windows Exhibition Series - Brian Belott, Pam Butler, Tamara Gonzales, Maggie Lee, Craig Olson, Elisa Soliven

    Mid-Manhattan Library
    Now through June 30, 2013

    On view day and night

    The Art and Picture Collections present Play Button an exhibition of artists’ books and zines featuring the work of Brian Belott, Pam Butler, Tamara Gonzales, Maggie Lee, Craig Olson, and Elisa Soliven.

    Please 

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  • Sigfrido Duarte: Voices of America

    Hamilton Grange
    Now through July 1, 2013

     Sigfrido Duarte was born in San Francisco de Marcoris, Dominican Republic. A self-taught painter he followed his instinct in the use of materials and techniques, on canvas, wood or crystals tinted with acrylics or oils. "It reflects a form of expression without the confinements of 

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  • TWA : 50 Years Later

    Morningside Heights
    Now through June 30, 2013

    The air terminal TWA at JFK airport is a New York protected architectural treasure. In 2005 Jet Blue started to build a new terminal around the old Eero Saarinen designed building as it was too small to handle todays’ traffic volume.
    In 2004 I was assigned to 

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  • The 9/11 Tiles for America Project

    Jefferson Market
    Ongoing


    Ceramic tiles that hung on Seventh Avenue South as a 9/11 memorial for 11 years after the attacks are on display again in the West Village - at the Jefferson Market Library! 

    “To have them in another village landmark is very healing,” said City Council 

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  • The Baychester Visual Art Exhibition

    Baychester
    Now through June 28, 2013

    In Celebration of Bronx Month, come out and view some spectacular paintings created by the Baychester Visual Arts Association.  Many of the Artists are local residents of Co-op City.

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  • The Return of "Mad Men"

    Mid-Manhattan Library
    Now through June 27, 2013

    The wait between seasons 5 and 6 was not nearly as long as the wait between season 4 and 5.  To celebrate the return of Mad Men the Picture Collection at the Mid-Manhattan Library presents an exhibition of materials depicting the style and design of the 

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  • The Wiz

    115th Street
    Now through August 1, 2013

    Marivel Mejia is a recent graduate of City College of NY with a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts. Formerly an Intern for their Humanities' Distinguished Lecturer, Dr. Myrah Green and Teacher's Assistant to the Chairman of the Art Department, Mr. Leo Fuentes.  From them, she learned 

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  • What A Neighborhood!

    Bloomingdale
    Now through June 29, 2013

    Artist susan c. dessel presents WHAT A NEIGHBORHOOD!, a series of tin drawings – among them one of the
    Bloomingdale Branch Library -- that celebrates NYC’s Upper West Side (UWS). This series of whimsical drawings
    was created in honor of the tenth anniversary of the Orfeo 

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  • World Culture Exhibition

    High Bridge
    Ongoing

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