NYAB Events - Central Library

Central Library - Past Events

Below is a list of all past events for Central Library. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.

Steven Hoffman "Coney Island: Beyond the Boardwalk"
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- Media: Photography
- 2008-09-09 - 2008-11-01
My intention with this exhibition is to document the people who live in the Coney Island housing projects, in the hopes that the larger world would understand and value the lives of these people. In (...)

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Sherone Neckles "Brown Paper Bag, Beneath the Surface Wallpaper and Our Soldier Boys Series"
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- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2008-09-09 - 2008-11-01
I am constantly fantasizing about ways to play with aspects of "truth" and questioning and drafting ideas of how to intervene in our complex history in order to shape and map it. This new body of work (...)

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Ted Lewin "At Gleason's Gym"
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- Media: Illustration
- 2008-09-09 - 2008-11-01
These illustrations are from the picture book At Gleason's Gym, which I wrote and illustrated. It is the result of a year and a half spent observing and recording events at Gleason's Gym where legendary (...)

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Rebecca Aidlin "Woodcuts and Related Images"
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Prints
- 2008-09-09 - 2008-11-01
This exhibition features woodcut prints on handmade papers. (The papers were made by my mother, Myrna London Aidlin.) The prints either stand alone or are layered and combined with monoprint, stained paper, (...)

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Nathan Kensinger "Twilight on the Waterfront"
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- Media: Photography
- 2008-06-17 - 2008-08-30
My photographs bring you inside places you may have walked by a thousand times and always wondered about. They take you into Brooklyn's industrial waterfront, a world closed to the public for decades. (...)

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Chanika Svetvilas "Journeys"
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- Media: Installation
- 2008-06-17 - 2008-11-01
In this site-specific installation, I have transformed the space covering the walls with ubiquitous plastic plaid tote bags made in China called "hong lan dan" (blue and red bag). They are also known by (...)

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Fay Ku "Fairy Tales Retold"
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- Media: Drawing
- 2008-06-17 - 2008-08-30
As an immigrant, I grew up hearing stories from my native Chinese culture. Aside from my parents' cooking and language, that was my only contact with that way of life. So, I understood from a very young (...)

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Randy Duchaine "New York Waters"
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- Media: Photography
- 2008-06-17 - 2008-08-30
Throughout history, the working people of the New York waterfront have contributed to the expansion of the United States through their work on the New York Harbor, the Hudson River and the Erie Canal. (...)

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