1. 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.

  2.  Michael “Kaves” McLeer, an acclaimed graffiti artist turned tattooist will be at the Library to discuss his inspirational book Skin Graf: Masters of Graffiti Tattoo.  Come visit the landmark branch on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at 6:00 pm as Kaves and other guests introduce masters of graffiti tattoo art, personal stories, and their diverse handiwork. 

     Michael “Kaves” McLeer, an acclaimed graffiti artist turned tattooist will be at the Library to discuss his inspirational book Skin Graf: Masters of Graffiti Tattoo. 

    Come visit the landmark branch on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at 6:00 pm as Kaves and other guests introduce masters of graffiti tattoo art, personal stories, and their diverse handiwork. 

  3. It’s (supposedly) spring, and in its honor, this week’s Caturday features a chic, French feline stopping to smell the roses (or some other kind of flower). This 1869 work by French artist Edouard Manet is currently in the Library’s Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs (which anyone can come and use). So - since it’s actually still cold out - drop by The New York Public Library’s landmark building on 42nd Street to stop, smell the roses, and check out fine art. And happy Caturday! 

    It’s (supposedly) spring, and in its honor, this week’s Caturday features a chic, French feline stopping to smell the roses (or some other kind of flower). This 1869 work by French artist Edouard Manet is currently in the Library’s Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs (which anyone can come and use). So - since it’s actually still cold out - drop by The New York Public Library’s landmark building on 42nd Street to stop, smell the roses, and check out fine art. And happy Caturday! 

  4. We’re speechless… and also curious whether we would ever be able to eat any of these cakes, let along cut into one of them. But, we want one anyway. 

    Of course, we also think that you should read the book while you eat its cake doppelganger, so why not visit NYPL’s online catalog and pick one up today!

    bookgasms:

    30 Gorgeous & Delicious Literary Cakes

    (Source: bookconfectionery)

  5. 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.

  6. This weekend is St. Patrick’s Day, and there will be much celebrating in New York City (starting today, with the St. Paddy’s Day Parade, which you can watch online and will march right past our landmark 42nd Street building), so for a festive Caturday, we’re sharing this 1885 image by legendary artist Rudolph Caldecott, which depicts a (very odd) celebration. The image - located in our Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection - features a kind of angry looking cat and the fiddle (as in “hey, diddle, diddle”) and several children happily dancing (including the one in the front, who is either very, very tiny, or a doll that’s sort of alive. It’s unclear). Meanwhile, an adult in the background is serving the food and looking on with an expression of, “Yeah. This is normal and happens all the time.” Gotta love it. Happy Caturday!

    This weekend is St. Patrick’s Day, and there will be much celebrating in New York City (starting today, with the St. Paddy’s Day Parade, which you can watch online and will march right past our landmark 42nd Street building), so for a festive Caturday, we’re sharing this 1885 image by legendary artist Rudolph Caldecott, which depicts a (very odd) celebration. The image - located in our Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection - features a kind of angry looking cat and the fiddle (as in “hey, diddle, diddle”) and several children happily dancing (including the one in the front, who is either very, very tiny, or a doll that’s sort of alive. It’s unclear). Meanwhile, an adult in the background is serving the food and looking on with an expression of, “Yeah. This is normal and happens all the time.” Gotta love it. Happy Caturday!

  7. 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.

  8. It’s a Cassatt Caturday. This 1908 painting by famed artist Mary Cassatt depicts a little girl holding an adorable kitten - perfect Caturday fodder. It’s also a perfect opportunity to shamelessly promote a brand new (totally free) exhibition at the Library’s landmark 42nd Street building - Daring Methods: The Prints of Mary Cassatt. Here’s a description: “Spanning twenty years of Cassatt’s career as a printmaker, from 1878 to 1898, this exhibition documents her first tentative steps in the medium and culminates with her highly accomplished and technically dazzling color prints.” So come on down today (before 6 p.m.) and check it out on the third floor - there won’t be any paintings as seen here, but the prints from our Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs are pretty amazing (you can some of them here). You have something better to do on this glorious Caturday? See you later!

    It’s a Cassatt Caturday. This 1908 painting by famed artist Mary Cassatt depicts a little girl holding an adorable kitten - perfect Caturday fodder. It’s also a perfect opportunity to shamelessly promote a brand new (totally free) exhibition at the Library’s landmark 42nd Street building - Daring Methods: The Prints of Mary Cassatt. Here’s a description: “Spanning twenty years of Cassatt’s career as a printmaker, from 1878 to 1898, this exhibition documents her first tentative steps in the medium and culminates with her highly accomplished and technically dazzling color prints.” So come on down today (before 6 p.m.) and check it out on the third floor - there won’t be any paintings as seen here, but the prints from our Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs are pretty amazing (you can some of them here). You have something better to do on this glorious Caturday? See you later!

  9. 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

  10. NYPL’s Morningside Heights Library has a fantastic exhibition on display featuring the artwork of students from PS 75 & 145, who participate in the program Studio in a School. Read all about it in today’s Daily News and stop by Morningside Heights Library tomorrow or later this week to take in the sights! 

    NYPL’s Morningside Heights Library has a fantastic exhibition on display featuring the artwork of students from PS 75 & 145, who participate in the program Studio in a School. Read all about it in today’s Daily News and stop by Morningside Heights Library tomorrow or later this week to take in the sights!