Art, Prints & Photographs Collections of the NYPL

“Eusebio Leal and the Restoration of Old Havana”, will be held today (Tuesday, May 15, 2012, @ 6:00 pm) at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, in the South Court Auditorium. 

Eusebio Leal Spengler is the Historian of the City of Havana and director of the restoration program of Old Havana, which was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982. Mr. Leal will present an overview of his work in Havana and preview work that is being planned for the future. 

We are pleased to announce the launch of our first online Prints and Photographs Catalog. You can search for our holdings of prints and photographs onsite and remotely, as well as tailor your searches by various categories, such as: the name of the artist, date, and media.

It currently includes 100,000 records representing 90,000 photographs and 10,000 prints. In addition to regular updates, we also hope to incorporate 150,000 records from the Digital Gallery and eventually thumbnail images of works from the collections.

Check it out: http://wallachprintsandphotos.nypl.org/

Today, on April 26, 1785, American naturalist, painter and draughtsman John James Audubon was born. “The Birds of America” was completed in 1839 and contained 435 hand-colored prints of over1,065 birds, representing 489 species. The General Research Division has digitized their copy and it is available on the Library’s Digital Gallery.

“Art has no meaning because it has many meanings, infinite meanings. Art is different for every individual, and is definable only by the given individual.” – Keith Haring

The Keith Haring Foundation has created a tumblr site with scans from Keith’s journals. Each day a new page from his journals will be posted to correspond with the Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition “Keith Haring: 1978-1982”, on view til July 8, 2012: http://keithharing.tumblr.com/

Would you like your artwork to be displayed on the giant screens in Times Square this Summer. Artists can submit their work for consideration at the Art Takes Times Square website.  

One World Trade Center has just reached 100 stories high. It needs another four feet to pass the Empire State Building as the tallest building in New York.

New report by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) shows the benefits of arts education for youth: “At-risk students who have access to the arts in or out of school also tend to have better academic results, better workforce opportunities, and more civic engagement”. 

Opening today, March 20th: “Liu Bolin: Lost in Art” at the Eli Klein Gallery, 462 West Broadway (between Houston & Prince). 

Just opened: Keith Haring: 1978–1982 at the Brooklyn Museum.

Keith Haring: 1978–1982 is the first large-scale exhibition to explore the early career of one of the best-known American artists of the twentieth century. Tracing the development of Haring’s extraordinary visual vocabulary, the exhibition includes 155 works on paper, numerous experimental videos, and over 150 archival objects, including rarely seen sketchbooks, journals, exhibition flyers, posters, subway drawings, and documentary photographs.