Arts & Humanities

New York Public Radio today announced a $2.5 million grant from the Leon Levy Foundation to support the preservation of nearly 100 years of crucial archival WNYC and WQXR assets. The grant will help transform the New York Public Radio digital infrastructure and facilitate greater public access to the historic materials.

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As the American Museum of Natural History celebrates its 150th anniversary, the Research Library is working to make items in the Museum’s vast collection of archival treasures more accessible to the public and researchers through the new Shelby White and Leon Levy Archive Initiative. The three-year project will help expand access to the...

DCLA and NYCEDC celebrated the start of construction on a new cultural center at the 32-story mixed-use tower, located at 300 Ashland Place in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The L10 Arts and Cultural Center will be home to several noteworthy cultural institutions including the Brooklyn Academy Of Music (BAM), housing the BAM Hamm Archives, where...

The New York Times - “Brazilian Modern: The Living Art of Roberto Burle Marx” has taken over the New York Botanical Garden — and offers an exuberant gust of tropical modernism that will thrill anyone caught in the concrete jungle. Burle Marx, Brazil’s greatest landscape designer, hasn’t lacked for institutional attention...

The New York Times - ‘WORKS AND PROCESS: REID BARTELME AND HARRIET JUNG’ at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (April 28-29, 7:30 p.m.). The exhibition “Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes,” which opened at N.Y.U.’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) in March, connects...

The New-York Historical Society is building its first-ever accessible archive of electronic material in all formats with a new, $1,000,000 award from the Leon Levy Foundation.  Taking place over the course of five years, this project will both document the last three decades of the New-York Historical’s history, and implement best practices for digital archiving—a new...

The annual Leon Levy Foundation Archives Roundtable once again brought together New York's top Archivists to discuss the latest trends and best practices of archiving, as well as the future of preserving ever-increasing digital information.  Since 2005, the Leon Levy Foundation has awarded about $22 million to more than 40 arts and humanities organizations to help...

The New York Times - Has a politician who wrote 18 books, who cut a conspicuous figure at 6-foot-5 in a bow tie and who was known for his colorful phrasemaking left too small an impression on the American popular imagination? That’s one takeaway from “Moynihan,” a conventional but entertaining rundown...

E-Flux - The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art presents a new archival exhibition of 50 years of undergraduate architectural thesis projects by students of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture.