NYPL Annual Report 2010

FEBRUARY 2010

Photo: Jori Klein

ST. AGNES LIBRARY reopens! Among the major renovations are a new roof; an elevator and entrance ramp; new, large windows that restore original design features; new air-conditioning and heating; new furniture, bookshelves, and lighting; and a first-floor floor-length graphic installation. This Upper West Side landmark library reopened its doors on February 11 and celebrated with daylong festivities.

CANDIDE 2.0, the digital exhibition inspired by the on-site exhibition Candide at 250: Scandal and Success, is an interactive online edition of Voltaire's Candide. Readers, authors, scholars, playwrights, and translators post comments alongside Voltaire's classic text.

NYPL celebrates Black History Month at the Schomburg Center with two exhibitions, PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: THE FIRST YEAR IN PICTURES and JERRY PINKNEY'S AFRICAN-AMERICAN JOURNEY TO FREEDOM.

THE JAZZ LOFT PROJECT, a multimedia exhibition featuring prints and audio recordings by photographer W. Eugene Smith, opens in the Donald & Mary Oenslager Gallery at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Helen Levitt, 1913–2009. Untitled gelatin silver print, ca. 1940. NYPL, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. © Estate of Helen Levitt; reproduced courtesy of Laurence Miller Gallery, New York.

IN PASSING: EVELYN HOFER, HELEN LEVITT, LILO RAYMOND, an exhibition honoring three distinguished women photographers, all of whom died in the previous year, opens in the Stokes Gallery at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Three dozen photographs include intimate portraits, interiors, and recognizable street compositions.


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