‘Style Wars’ Celebrates 30th Anniversary

Winner of the Grand Prize for Documentaries at the 1983 Sundance Film Festival, Style Wars is regarded as the indispensable document of New York street culture and subway graffiti art of the early ’80s, Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant’s filmic record of a golden age of youthful creativity that exploded into the world from a city in crisis. In partnership with the Tribeca Film Institute and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Chalfant will join a panel of artists and scholars - including sculptor/painter Carlos “Mare139” Rodriguez and moderated by painter/DJ iona rozeal brown - to discuss the documentary’s influence and presence thirty years later.

Come visit the Schomburg Center on March 20 @ 6:00 pm to learn more about ‘style wars’ past thirty years. 

Today is National Hat Day and we tip our hat to NYPL’s digital gallery, where you can find all kinds of hats to celebrate this (in our modest opinion) delightful holiday. NYPL’s Arents collection holds an assortment of cigarette cards depicting a bevy of beautiful hats. 

Will you be wearing your favorite or most outrageous hat? 

NYPL is stylin’! Today the Wall Street Journal examined Work Wear: Office Style at the New York Public Library. We’ve included just a few of our fashion forward folks who prove that inspiration can be found everywhere at the Library, just look at our staff!