1. Cool photo, right? It’s even more fabulous when you realize that photographer Vera Lutter took this photo while inside a walk-in, pinhole camera. Yes, a walk-in, pinhole camera. Recent Acquisitions: Prints and Photographs opens today at the Stephen A. Schwarzman building at Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street. All of the exhibition photographs and prints on display were obtained by the Library in the last decade. It’s a free exhibition and you can see it whenever the Library is open; stop by if you’re in midtown NYC today or make a trip to see it. It’s worth your time. Vera Lutter, “Corte Barozzi, Venice: March 10, 2006.”  The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. © Vera Lutter; reproduced courtesy of Carolina Nitsch, New York.

    Cool photo, right? It’s even more fabulous when you realize that photographer Vera Lutter took this photo while inside a walk-in, pinhole camera. Yes, a walk-in, pinhole camera. Recent Acquisitions: Prints and Photographs opens today at the Stephen A. Schwarzman building at Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street. All of the exhibition photographs and prints on display were obtained by the Library in the last decade. It’s a free exhibition and you can see it whenever the Library is open; stop by if you’re in midtown NYC today or make a trip to see it. It’s worth your time.

    Vera Lutter, “Corte Barozzi, Venice: March 10, 2006.”  The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. © Vera Lutter; reproduced courtesy of Carolina Nitsch, New York.

  2. This weekend is one of your last chances to see the “Radioactive” exhibit at NYPL’s landmark Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at 42nd Street. The free exhibit, which includes cynotype artwork by former Cullman Center scholar Lauren Redniss, is going down on April 17, so come take a look! The exhibit highlights artwork Redniss created for her book “Radioactive,” a graphic profile of Pierre and Marie Curie both through their scientific discoveries and their personal love story. It’s cool - check it out! You can see it from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday or 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday.

    This weekend is one of your last chances to see the “Radioactive” exhibit at NYPL’s landmark Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at 42nd Street. The free exhibit, which includes cynotype artwork by former Cullman Center scholar Lauren Redniss, is going down on April 17, so come take a look! The exhibit highlights artwork Redniss created for her book “Radioactive,” a graphic profile of Pierre and Marie Curie both through their scientific discoveries and their personal love story. It’s cool - check it out! You can see it from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday or 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday.

  3. Irish eyes are smiling at the Library this time of year, and not just because the New York City Saint Patrick’s Day Parade is going to pass in front of our landmark 42nd Street building on Thursday. We’re also opening our new exhibit  Ireland America The Ties that Bind today at our Library for the Performing Arts. The free, multimedia exhibit focuses on Irish American performance history from the 19th and 20th centuries. There are movies and public programs (all free) accompanying the exhibition so make sure you check it out! Meanwhile, you can bring the St. Patrick’s Day spirit home by searching through our DIgital Gallery for St. Patrick’s Day cards - like the one above taken from a St. Patrick’s Day card in our Mid-Manhattan Library Picture Collection - or by checking out a few picture books on the subject for the child in your life. Betsy Bird from the Children’s Center at 42nd Street compiled this list of books about Ireland or St. Patty’s Day to get you started: Great Irish Picture Books The Banshee Too Many Fairies: A Celtic Tale Fergus and the Night-Demon: An Irish Ghost Story O’Sullivan Stew St. Patrick’s Day Picture Books Fiona’s Luck Leprechaun Gold Traveling Tom and the Leprechaun The Leprechaun Who Lost His Rainbow Jamie O’Rourke and the Big Potato Green Shamrocks Tim O’Toole and the Wee Folk A Fine St. Patrick’s Day

    Irish eyes are smiling at the Library this time of year, and not just because the New York City Saint Patrick’s Day Parade is going to pass in front of our landmark 42nd Street building on Thursday. We’re also opening our new exhibit  Ireland America The Ties that Bind today at our Library for the Performing Arts. The free, multimedia exhibit focuses on Irish American performance history from the 19th and 20th centuries. There are movies and public programs (all free) accompanying the exhibition so make sure you check it out!

    Meanwhile, you can bring the St. Patrick’s Day spirit home by searching through our DIgital Gallery for St. Patrick’s Day cards - like the one above taken from a St. Patrick’s Day card in our Mid-Manhattan Library Picture Collection - or by checking out a few picture books on the subject for the child in your life. Betsy Bird from the Children’s Center at 42nd Street compiled this list of books about Ireland or St. Patty’s Day to get you started:

    Great Irish Picture Books

    The Banshee

    Too Many Fairies: A Celtic Tale

    Fergus and the Night-Demon: An Irish Ghost Story

    O’Sullivan Stew

    St. Patrick’s Day Picture Books

    Fiona’s Luck

    Leprechaun Gold

    Traveling Tom and the Leprechaun

    The Leprechaun Who Lost His Rainbow

    Jamie O’Rourke and the Big Potato

    Green Shamrocks

    Tim O’Toole and the Wee Folk

    A Fine St. Patrick’s Day

  4. It’s a St. Patty’s Day Caturday! Dusty the cat (whose mom is a Tumblr author) gets into the spirit of things and you can, too, at NYPL. We have an exhibit called Ireland America: The Ties That Bind opening Monday at our Library for the Performing Arts. We also have plenty of Ireland-related programming planned for kids and adults this week and beyond at most of our locations, so browse through the Library’s events site and find something fun for you!

    It’s a St. Patty’s Day Caturday! Dusty the cat (whose mom is a Tumblr author) gets into the spirit of things and you can, too, at NYPL. We have an exhibit called Ireland America: The Ties That Bind opening Monday at our Library for the Performing Arts. We also have plenty of Ireland-related programming planned for kids and adults this week and beyond at most of our locations, so browse through the Library’s events site and find something fun for you!

  5. We wish that science class was this much fun! This brilliant video is one of four videos produced by students at Parsons the New School for Design in collaboration with The New York Public Library and artist Lauren Redniss for Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout, a book, exhibition (at the main NYPL location at Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street), and a website. Sean Ferguson created this animation, which is narrated by Redniss. Check out the Radioactive site in its entirety at http://exhibitions.nypl.org/radioactive/.

    Atoms have never been so exciting!

  6. Radioactive exhibition opens today at the Library!

    Today’s a great day at the Library, because the exhibition Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout has opened! As you can see from the image above (pages 146-147 of the book with the same name), Radioactive is arty, graphic, and heavy on the cyanotypes!  We’ve been enjoying this book since it came out last month, but you know what? The exhibition is even cooler, because there are library materials hanging on the walls alongside Redniss’ work! (We say that as Library staffers.)  Redniss worked on the book while she was a Fellow at the Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and she was inspired by our collections. Some of the pieces that spoke to her work are on the walls, displayed next to the original Library pieces. There’s been some stories for the book and the exhibit already: NPR’s All Things Considered, vogue.com, The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, WNYC’s The Leonard Lopate Show, and The Huffington Post. Make sure to check out the amazing exhibition website that Redniss worked on with her Parsons The New School students!