Events & Exhibitions
Check out these NYARC library events and exhibitions featuring library materials from our collections:
Lost and Found: The Work of Bern Porter from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art Library
The Museum of Modern Art
April 7-July 5, 2010
The Museum of Modern Art
January 27-April 5, 2010
The French art dealer Paul Rosenberg (1881–1959) is renowned for his role in representing such artists as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, and his archives have long been of use to museum professionals and scholars. This exhibition, the first public display of selections from this collection, traces Rosenberg’s long history and wide-ranging influence, from the Paris gallery and its international networks before World War II through the war years and the establishment of the New York galleries, and concluding with the postwar years and later decades. The materials on view reveal the evolution of Rosenberg’s relationships with artists and dealers through years of cultural upheaval and broadening of the creative field. Given that some components of the archives predate MoMA’s founding, this exhibition offers a unique look at the cultural and art historical context for the establishment of the world’s first museum of modern art.
The Museum of Modern Art
February 6, 2010 from Noon-5pm
The Brooklyn Museum
February 12-May 2, 2010
This exhibit features a volume from a rare set of books entitled I monumenti dell'Egitto e della Nubia ... by Ippolito Rosellini (1800-1843) and several items documenting Charles Edwin Wilbour, his family and friends will be on display in the Library display cases. These materials will also be the subject of a series of Brooklyn Museum blogs focused on Wilbour, the American Egyptologist, whose collection will be the focus of the exhibition and whose library is the foundation of the Wilbour Library of Egyptology.
The Brooklyn Museum
January 29-October 17, 2010
This exhibit features Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives materials, including the History of the Brooklyn and Long Island fair, February 22, 1864.
Frederik Johannes Lugt
The Frick Art Reference Library
January 1-April 30, 2010
Inspired by the Frick’s recent special exhibition Watteau to Degas: French Drawings from the Frits Lugt Collection, the Frick Art Reference Library presents an installation of books and archival materials from its permanent collection that focuses on Frits Lugt and his many contributions to the field of art history.
