Arts & Humanities

The 50-foot media wall, featuring the Shelby White and Leon Levy Digital Archives Media Collections, has launched with an exciting collaboration: an exhibit on Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Jane Gottlieb and the Juilliard Library. Included in Juilliard’s collection is the copyist’s manuscript to the Ninth, likely used at the world premiere in Vienna, 1824, with...

Flushing’s Bowne House Historical Society is set to receive a major grant from the New York Preservation Archive Project to digitize its important and extensive collection of documents, letters, maps, deeds, photographs and daguerreotypes, books, objects, and ephemera spanning three centuries - a collection that helps to tell the story of the...

Leon Levy Foundation Names Meredith Ross President

Justine Koch Promoted to Director of Finance/Administration,

Jennifer Ellis to Senior Program Officer

The Leon Levy Foundation has named Meredith Ross president, succeeding Robert F. Goldrich, who resigned in July after serving as president since 2015. Ms Ross,...

Dating from the 1920s through the 1980s, the unique contents of this collection document the history of the Wildlife Conservation Society, including early activities at its Bronx Zoo and New York Aquarium, as well as the progression of its field conservation program over the course of the twentieth century.  Further still, these historical films portray...

The fourth Leon Levy Foundation Roundabout Directors Group cohort includes Autumn Angelettie, Chari Arespacochaga, Britt Berke, James Bruenger-Arreguin, Adam Coy, Evan T Cummings, Devin E. Haqq, Susanna Jaramillo, Margaret Lee, Sarah Shin, and Dina Vovsi. Led by Roundabout Associate Artist and past directing fellow Cristina Angeles, the mentorship program will provide career assistance and community...

Rob Goldrich, President and Chief Financial Officer of LLF since 2015, has announced his intention to leave the foundation in July 2022. Mr. Goldrich said, “It has been a great privilege and tremendous pleasure to have worked with the caring and competent professionals of the Leon Levy Foundation in helping expand our asset size and...

The New York Preservation Archive Project originally established the Archival Assistance Initiative in 2013 to assist historic preservation-related not-for-profit organizations in identifying and maintaining their archival resources. Now, with the generous assistance of the Leon Levy Foundation, the Initiative is being revitalized with a new round of small grants in 2022. Applicants must demonstrate their project or...

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has received a $750,000 grant from the Leon Levy Foundation. The new grant will help provide enhanced access to many of its audio and motion picture treasures that document the history of the performing arts extending as far back as the early 1900s. The archive at...

Roundabout Theatre Company is now accepting applications for two of the institution's signature Artists-in-Residence programs: the Roundabout Directing Fellowship and the Leon Levy Foundation Roundabout Directors Group. The deadline for applications is Thursday, March 10 at 11:59pm (ET). Applicants may apply for one or both programs.