1. Petra Giloy Hirtz and Marin Hopper - Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album - An Art Book Series Event | The New York Public Library →

    Did you miss NYPL’s event last week with Petra Giloy Hirtz and Marin Hopper, the daughter of legendary actor Dennis Hopper? Not to worry, the audio is online! The pair discussed the stunning new book Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album - Vintage Prints from the Sixties, which explores the late artist’s career as a photographer and delves into recently rediscovered photographs by Hopper himself. 

  2. This photo was taken exactly 110 years ago today … and depicts construction at the site where our landmark 42nd Street building now stands (you can still see part of the reservoir walls on our lower level). Happy history!

    This photo was taken exactly 110 years ago today … and depicts construction at the site where our landmark 42nd Street building now stands (you can still see part of the reservoir walls on our lower level). Happy history!

  3. At NYPL on April 17, Author Petra Giloy-Hirtz appears with Marin Hopper, daughter of legendary actor, director and artist Dennis Hopper, to discuss the stunning new book Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album - Vintage Prints from the Sixties. They explore Dennis Hopper’s incredible and diverse career, delving into the recently rediscovered photographs which are the subject of the book.

  4. Happy 70th Birthday to the great Christopher Walken! In celebration our amazing librarian at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Jeremy Megraw, wrote an awesome blog about Walken. Jeremy also uncovered some rarely seen photos of a VERY YOUNG Walken from The Library’s incredible Billy Rose Theatre Collection. The photo above is from Ronnie Walken’s (his birth name) 1955 acting resume. Our friends at Gothamist also shared some of these photos as well as some that they found as well…

    Happy 70th Birthday to the great Christopher Walken! In celebration our amazing librarian at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Jeremy Megraw, wrote an awesome blog about Walken. Jeremy also uncovered some rarely seen photos of a VERY YOUNG Walken from The Library’s incredible Billy Rose Theatre Collection. The photo above is from Ronnie Walken’s (his birth name) 1955 acting resume. Our friends at Gothamist also shared some of these photos as well as some that they found as well…

  5. We’re very excited to welcome National Geographic to Tumblr and already anticipate hours spent on their new Found page!  These boys (in the photo above) have their work cut out for them if they plan on reading all that news! But, you might find yourself in a similar situation if you were to visit our Periodicals division.  Or if you would rather peruse back issues of Nat Geo, that’s possible too!  natgeofound: Reading the news in France.Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic

    We’re very excited to welcome National Geographic to Tumblr and already anticipate hours spent on their new Found page! 

    These boys (in the photo above) have their work cut out for them if they plan on reading all that news! But, you might find yourself in a similar situation if you were to visit our Periodicals division.  Or if you would rather peruse back issues of Nat Geo, that’s possible too! 

    natgeofound:

    Reading the news in France.
    Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic

  6. Come experience 71 of Robert Burley’s atmospheric photographs and you’ll be transported to rarely seen sites from the Polaroid plant in Massachusetts to the Kodak-Pathé plant in France. Burley’s Disappearance of Darkness reflects artist’s ability to preserve traditional art forms while embracing the digital era. Watch as Burley pays tribute to a century-old industry that seems to be disappearing overnight. This free event will be on Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 6:00 pm.  Arezoo Moseni Event.

    Come experience 71 of Robert Burley’s atmospheric photographs and you’ll be transported to rarely seen sites from the Polaroid plant in Massachusetts to the Kodak-Pathé plant in France. Burley’s Disappearance of Darkness reflects artist’s ability to preserve traditional art forms while embracing the digital era.

    Watch as Burley pays tribute to a century-old industry that seems to be disappearing overnight. This free event will be on Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 6:00 pm. 

    Arezoo Moseni Event.

  7. It’s St. Paddy’s Day, and even though the NYC parade was actually yesterday, we wanted to share this historic photo of the famous parade marching down Fifth Avenue back in 1904. Specifically, it’s marching by 56th Street. The image is currently in our Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

    It’s St. Paddy’s Day, and even though the NYC parade was actually yesterday, we wanted to share this historic photo of the famous parade marching down Fifth Avenue back in 1904. Specifically, it’s marching by 56th Street. The image is currently in our Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

  8. On May 1, 2012, artist Margaret Evangeline heard President Obama’s speech broadcast live from Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan projecting the end of a ten-year war. She listened with mixed reaction, as for her the sense of jeopardy and urgency shared by families of serving soldiers was lacking in America’s national collective consciousness. The Obama speech sealed Evangeline’s resolve to finish a personal project that she started in 2011 to relieve the constant emotional challenge of her concern for her eldest son Michael, who was in his third deployment to Iraq. The project is a collaboration that linked Evangeline to soldiers on the military outpost, Balad, in Afghanistan. The work, completed in 2011, is unveiled in her new monograph Sabachthani: Why Have You Forsaken Me? (Charta 2012).  Artist Margaret Evangeline, poet and art writer Jonathan Goodman, art critic Dominique Nahas and curator Lilly Wei will be at NYPL on March 20 to discuss art’s potential to mirror social issues without subverting the aesthetic nature of art making.

    On May 1, 2012, artist Margaret Evangeline heard President Obama’s speech broadcast live from Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan projecting the end of a ten-year war. She listened with mixed reaction, as for her the sense of jeopardy and urgency shared by families of serving soldiers was lacking in America’s national collective consciousness. The Obama speech sealed Evangeline’s resolve to finish a personal project that she started in 2011 to relieve the constant emotional challenge of her concern for her eldest son Michael, who was in his third deployment to Iraq. The project is a collaboration that linked Evangeline to soldiers on the military outpost, Balad, in Afghanistan. The work, completed in 2011, is unveiled in her new monograph Sabachthani: Why Have You Forsaken Me? (Charta 2012). 

    Artist Margaret Evangeline, poet and art writer Jonathan Goodman, art critic Dominique Nahas and curator Lilly Wei will be at NYPL on March 20 to discuss art’s potential to mirror social issues without subverting the aesthetic nature of art making.

  9. Our friends at NYPL’s Facebook page shared this fantastic (and timely) photo and said: It’s snowy in NYC! Keep warm and visit the Library for good books to read over the weekend. http://nypl.bibliocommons.com/ What are you reading?  And in the meantime, are you following NYPL on Facebook? If not, you should!

    Our friends at NYPL’s Facebook page shared this fantastic (and timely) photo and said:

    It’s snowy in NYC! Keep warm and visit the Library for good books to read over the weekend. http://nypl.bibliocommons.com/ What are you reading? 

    And in the meantime, are you following NYPL on Facebook? If not, you should!

  10. Join NYPL on March 12 for a fascinating conversation with Deborah Martin Kao and Gary Schneider and catch a glimpse of Schneider’s Portrait Sequences 1975—a series of works that transforms how we see the human body.  “In 1975 I began working on a film that looked at the body and face in close-up. I used a still camera to storyboard and soon realized that the sequences did not need to be made into a film. When exhibited they comprised as few as one image and as many as sixteen. Unlike cinematic linear progression these sequences could be read from left to right or the reverse or episodically. It was factual as well as metaphorical, and also dealt with a private exchange between my subject and myself, that could then be made public. These remain essential aspects of my work…” —Gary Schneider

    Join NYPL on March 12 for a fascinating conversation with Deborah Martin Kao and Gary Schneider and catch a glimpse of Schneider’s Portrait Sequences 1975—a series of works that transforms how we see the human body. 

    “In 1975 I began working on a film that looked at the body and face in close-up. I used a still camera to storyboard and soon realized that the sequences did not need to be made into a film. When exhibited they comprised as few as one image and as many as sixteen. Unlike cinematic linear progression these sequences could be read from left to right or the reverse or episodically. It was factual as well as metaphorical, and also dealt with a private exchange between my subject and myself, that could then be made public. These remain essential aspects of my work…”

    —Gary Schneider