September 2011
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Are You Experienced?
Actually, the question we want to know is: Where will you be tomorrow night at 6pm? We think you should be at the Library where New York Times art critic Ken Johnson, author of Are You Experienced?: How Psychedelic Consciousness Transformed Modern Art, will discuss the book’s thought-provoking look at art through the lens of psychedelic experience and culture with artists Deborah Kass (of...
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Looking For Something To Do Tonight?
Internationally acclaimed writer Ariel Dorfman will be at our Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue tonight to discuss his time as an exile from Pinochet’s Chile, a time he discussed in his memoir Feeding on Dreams. So pick up a ticket and come on down! It’s guaranteed to be fascinating! And while you’re at it, check out the rest of our season -...
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“The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.”
– Jim Henson, who would have been 75 today. NYPL has plenty of books about and by the puppet master that we urge you to check out. We also have puppet-making classes for kids who want to be the NEXT Jim Henson. Our next one is at The Bronx Library Center on Thursday, Sept. 29 from 4 to 5. This message...
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Kids And Teens: Have Your Fines Waived!!
Mayor Bloomberg joined NYPL Prez Anthony Marx (at the podium in the photo), Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott, NYPL Trustee Terry McGraw, the heads of the Brooklyn and Queens Library systems and several other elected officials at our Seward Park Library yesterday to announce the citywide New Chapter initiative to give patrons under 18 the opportunity to eliminate all of their prior fines....
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Cleopatra at NYPL →
Did you know that Cleopatra wasn’t Egyptian? She was actually Mesopotamian, which makes her reign as Queen of Egypt all the more remarkable. Even better, all our Tumblr followers can get 20% off the the ticket cost of tomorrow night’s historical discussion with Cleopatra author (and Pulitzer Prize winner!) Stacy Schiff and acclaimed biographer Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana,...
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Landmark 42nd Street Building Closed Today
The Library’s landmark Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue is closed today for a special event. Sorry everyone! But the rest of our locations are open, including our Mid-Manhattan Library right across the street on 40th and Fifth. Thanks for understanding, everyone! We’ll be back open tomorrow!
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Is Brad Pitt A Vampire, Too?
So by now, you’ve all heard this crazy story about a Civil War era photo featuring a man who looks eerily similar to actor Nicolas Cage. The owner of the photo seems to think Cage is a vampire who has walked the Earth for all eternity … or some such insanity. Anyway, we flipped through our Digital Gallery of 700,000 images, and found this 1857 photo from our Manuscripts and Archives...
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Sweetest Thing Ever: Selling Cookies and Lemonade...
Here is something unspeakably amazing to brighten up your Monday morning - little six-year-old Helen Stone spent her Sunday outside her Morningside Heights apartment selling homemade cookies and lemonade to support The New York Public Library. According to her mom Robin Aronson, Helen (who uses the 115th Street, Morningside Heights and St. Agnes libraries with her family) has long wanted to have...
