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From Our Blogs
Camouflaged Anti-Nazi Literature
In the early eighties, rare book librarian John Rathe pulled down a dusty box, wrapped in twine, from a remote corner of the Rare Book room. Attached to the box was a label that said: “Do not open until war is over.” Which war? The Civil War? The War of 1812? In this blog post, librarian Jack Sherefkin describes what Rathe discovered: a box filled with disguised anti-Nazi tracts hidden in packets of tea and shampoo and concealed in miniature books both popular and scholarly.
Read this fascinating blog post
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Anti-Nazi pamphlet from 1939 in a Lyons’ tea packet containing articles by Hermann Budzislawski, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann, and others.
Photo: Jack Sherefkin
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| This exhibition is organized jointly by the Fundación Federico García Lorca, The New York Public Library, and Acción Cultural Española with the support of “la Caixa“ Foundation.
Support for The New York Public Library’s Exhibitions Program has been provided by Celeste Bartos, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos and Adam Bartos Exhibitions Fund, and Jonathan Altman. |
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LIVE from the NYPL
William Gibson
Friday, April 19, 2013
7 p.m.
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
William Gibson is “one of science fiction’s most visionary and distinctive voices” (Wired), credited with coining the term “cyberspace” in his short story “Burning Chrome,” and with popularizing the concept of the Internet while it was still largely unknown. Gibson’s 1984 debut novel, Neuromancer, was the first debut to win science fiction’s top three prizes—the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award. His latest work is a collection of essays entitled Distrust That Particular Flavor, published last year.
 
The Costs of Assimilation: André Aciman & Nicole Krauss
Monday, April 22, 2013
7 p.m.
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William Gibson
Photo: Michael O’Shea
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| LIVE from the NYPL is made possible with generous support from Celeste Bartos, Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos and Adam Bartos, and the Margaret and Herman Sokol Public Education Endowment Fund. |
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Exhibition
Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life of Vibrant Color at the Schomburg
Friday, April 19 through Saturday, June 29, 2013
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
This Loïs Mailou Jones retrospective offers an expansive look at her pioneering 75-year artistic career, which stretched from late post-Impressionism to a contemporary mixture of African, Caribbean, American, and African-American iconography, design, and thematic elements. Jones, who began as a textile designer and faced early racial and gender discrimination, painted portraits, still lifes, and landscapes. An influential educator at Howard University for nearly 50 years, Jones continued to paint into her 90s.
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Jennie, a portrait of one of Jones’s students, was painted in 1943.
Courtesy of the Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Photo: Jarvis Grant
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| Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color is organized by the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, in collaboration with the Loïs Mailou Jones Pierre-Noël Trust, and toured by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC. The exhibition is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. |
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Photo: cybrarian77 via Flickr
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| Special funding for the Cullman Center’s Institute for Teachers is generously provided by Helen and Roger Alcaly and the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History.
The Cullman Center is made possible by a generous endowment from Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman in honor of Brooke Russell Astor, with major support provided by Mrs. John L. Weinberg, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Estate of Charles J. Liebman, John and Constance Birkelund, The Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, and additional gifts from The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Helen and Roger Alcaly, Mel and Lois Tukman, The Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, William W. Karatz, The Rona Jaffe Foundation, Mary Ellen von der Heyden, Merilee and Roy Bostock, Lybess Sweezy and Ken Miller, and Cullman Center Fellows. |
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| Featured Programs at the Library
E-Reader Help @ Riverdale Library
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
11 a.m.
Riverdale Library
Lectures from the Allen Room and the Wertheim Study
Shakespeare Week
Monday, April 15 through Saturday, April 20, 2013
1:15 p.m.
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
After Hours (Book) Club: Selections from William Maxwell’s Later Novels and Stories
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
5:30 p.m.
Grand Central Library
Author @ the Library
Tweeting and Eating: How Social Media has Changed the Way We Eat
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
6:30 p.m.
Mid-Manhattan Library
Books & Bagels
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
12 noon
Great Kills Library
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| Programs are subject to change or cancellation. For up-to-date information, visit www.nypl.org/events. |
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