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If the stock market leaves you stumped or your credit cards are in chaos from debt, visit the Business Library tomorrow. At Financial Empowerment Day anyone can stop by and learn more about how to make their money work for them. Even better, we’ll have experts on hand to help answer questions and one-one-one sessions scheduled throughout the day (those fill up fast, so come early!)
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 crooked Caturday! This drawing from the late 1800s originally ran in a book of nursery rhymes, and is now in our Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection. It illustrates a story about a crooked man, with crooked furniture, a crooked window, and, of course, a crooked cat. It’s perfectly weird - happy Caturday! By the way, speaking of twisting one’s body into crooked positions, did you know NYPL offers totally free yoga classes in its branches? The Riverdale Press just highlighted one of the programs - but there are many others throughout our system. So search through our offerings to find a class, then drop by to work out your mind AND your body! See you soon, and spread the word!
Throughout January, Citi Pond® at Bryant Park™ — NYC’s first and only free-admission skating rink — offers library cardholders who are 17 and under a reduced skate rental price of $10 per rental (a 30% discount from the usual $14) as part of its “Read To Skate” program. To get the special $10 rental price, skaters must show their New York City library cards (from The New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library or Queens Library) to rink staff at the Citi Pond Skating Pavilion, located in Bryant Park, on 40th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
Looking for something to do on Black Friday (besides shop and eat leftovers)? Check out one of our totally free exhibitions, like the acclaimed Lunch Hour NYC exhibit highlighting the storied history of the midday meal (pictured). That’s at our landmark 42nd Street building (check out our Library Shop while you’re there for gift ideas). Or, head uptown to our Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center for an amazing (and also acclaimed) exhibit on the fashion of Katharine Hepburn, which includes outfits she wore in some of her most famous productions. Or keep going uptown to our Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture for yet another acclaimed exhibit, Visualizing Emancipation, which displays 171 pre- and post- Civil War photographs of both enslaved and free black men, women and children to mark the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Did we mention these exhibitions are all free and easily accessible by subway? Check them out!
Just a reminder that tonight at 6:30pm at The Seward Park Library there will be a free screening of the 1980’s classic DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN that will feature a Q&A with the film’s director Susan Seidelman!!! This screening is part of the new Lower East Side Heritage Film Series: The 80s. Seats are on a first come, first serve basis.
Just a reminder to all you Bob Dylan fans that tonight at 6pm at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is a free program in which the music of Bob Dylan is performed by Dylan interpreter Howard Fishman and his band. This program is in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Dylan’s debut album.
This photo from the 1940 World’s Fair shows 93-year-old LA Wilcox - a Civil War vet born in 1846 - teaching little Antoinette Falabella of Brooklyn about his various medals, including one he received for Gettysburg. So Happy Veterans Day (well it was yesterday) AND Mustache Monday. Just a reminder that NYPL is closed today, Nov. 12, for Veterans Day, but you can still download free eBooks or the two editions of our app Biblion - the first one highlights our 1940 World’s Fair collection in our Manuscripts and Archives Division (which includes the photo of LA and Antoinette). The second one is on Frankenstein. Enjoy, and salute a veteran today!
Looking for something to do today (something easily accessible by subway)? Why not check out the Library’s totally free Lunch Hour NYC exhibition at our landmark 42nd Street building? It tells the story of the midday meal, from power lunches to street carts to Sardi’s cartoons. Check out other images from the exhibition, and this (very enthusiastic and positive) NY Times review. We’re open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today - come on down.
Bob Dylan fans, mark your calendars for Monday, November 19 at 6:00pm because The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has a gem of a program coming up… and it is FREE!! Fifty years ago, Dylan released his eponymous debut album. To mark the occasion, songwriter and Dylan interpreter Howard Fishman curates an evening saluting the living legend’s most recent album. Fishman and a roster of special guests respond to Dylan’s newest offering as they salute this vibrant, iconic artist. Seating is on a first come, first serve basis but you can get more info here…
