Art, Prints & Photographs Collections of the NYPL

The MoMA has launched a major website on “Louise Bourgeois: The Complete Prints & Books”.   The site will contain over 3,500 images documenting her complete prints and illustrated books.

Check it out at: http://www.moma.org/explore/collection/lb/index 

We would like to wish you all a Happy New Year!!!

The inventor of the Barcode, Norman Joseph Woodland has passed away.

“Building to Impress: New York Skyscrapers and the People who Commissioned Them”, will be held tomorrow (Thursday, December 13, 2012, @ 1:15pm) at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, in the South Court Auditorium. 

“This lecture explores the story of the fascinating people who were the forces behind nine iconic New York buildings - Flatiron, Metropolitan Life, Woolworth, Chrysler, Empire State, Seagram’s, AT&T, Conde Nast, and Hearst buildings.”

Today, on December 7, 1972, the last Apollo moon mission was launched. As the crew of Apollo 17 left Earth they took this photograph, known as The Blue Marble. 

Today, on November 29, 1972, Atari announced the release of the arcade game Pong.  A simple two-dimensional sports game simulating table tennis that led to the start of the video game industry and countless sleepless nights. 

We hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving!

Checkout the 86th Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, which will feature graffiti artist Brian Donnelly’s balloon “Kaws Companion”.  Part of the Macy’s Parade’s Blue Sky Gallery series.

We came across this wonderful blog post by Fotis Flevotomos, a Fulbright Visiting Artist on “Drawing on the iPad”.  We especially love the drawing of our Reading Room.

The original Iwo Jima Monument, which was featured in yesterdays Veterans Day Parade, will be on display at The 590 Madison Avenue Sculpture Garden until November 30^th. 

To all those who serve and have served, Happy Veterans Day! Thank you. 

Today, on November 9, 1924, photographer Robert Frank was born.  He is best known for his photobook titled “The Americans”, which “dramatically altered how photographers looked through their viewfinders and the way Americans saw themselves.”

This weekend the Designers & Books Fair 2012 will take place at the Fashion Institute of Technology. There will be publishers and booksellers, demonstrations of book arts and book signings, as well as presentations, interviews, and panel discussions.

Opening today is our new exhibition, “Echoes of Silence: Philip Trager, Early Photographs, 1967-83” in the Prints and Stokes Gallery on the third floor of the Schwarzman Building.

Opening on Friday, October 5th, is a one week exhibition titled “The Artwork of John Lennon” to mark what would have been his 72nd birthday. The exhibit will feature 100 drawings and sketches.

Today, on September 30, 1924, Truman Capote, the American author of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” was born. The Library owns his papers and this portrait of Capote by James Whitney Fosburgh, which is hanging in Room 316 of the Schwarzman Building.