• The Rose Family Seder Books

    March 31–April 13, 2023
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    The Rose Family Seder Books are unique collections of Passover-themed artwork. For over 60 years, the Rose family has commissioned…

  • Been Seen

    March 31, 2022–March 11, 2023
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
    Highlighting the work of Harlem-based photographer Austin Hansen (1910 -1996) and the experiences of Black photographers to illuminate the…

  • Virginia Woolf: A Modern Mind

    November 18, 2022–March 5, 2023
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    Virginia Woolf dedicated her literary life to the examination of the human character, whether in essays, short stories, and novels,…

  • Lou Reed: Caught Between the Twisted Stars

    June 9, 2022–March 4, 2023
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
    The first large-scale exhibition featuring previously unseen and unheard work from Lou Reed’s archive.

  • Boundless: 10 Years of Seeding Black Comic Futures

    January 14, 2022–February 28, 2023
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
    The exhibition celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture’s Black Comic Book Festival and…

  • Fortune and Folly in 1720

    September 23, 2022–February 19, 2023
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    Fortune and Folly in 1720 chronicles the spectacular rise and fall of the first international bubble economy. The Mississippi…

  • A Dickens Christmas

    November 21, 2022–January 8, 2023
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    This holiday season, the Library is celebrating with a special installation featuring Dickens’s heavily annotated…

  • All This Mine Alone: Lady Gregory and the Irish Literary Revival

    Online Only
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    Augusta Gregory has long been recognized as the woman who helped shape a new era of modern Irish literature at the turn of the 20th…

  • We Were Beautiful Then, Too: Late 19th Century African American Cabinet Cards

    June 4–September 23, 2022
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

    In the 19th century, African Americans harnessed the power of photography to claim a self-possessed identity in line with middle class…

  • Peter Kuper's INterSECTS: Where Arthropods and Homo Sapiens Meet

    January 12–August 13, 2022
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    INterSECTS presents excerpts from artist Peter Kuper’s forthcoming graphic novel, which he developed during his tenure as a fellow at The…