Arts & Humanities

The closing event for this year's Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy was held at the magnificent Museum of the City of New York hosted by Ronay Menschel, Vice Chair of the Museum; Richard and Robert Menschel, 2015 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy recipients; and Whitney Donhauser, President and Director of the Museum. A final salute to the...

Shelby White’s extraordinary philanthropic accomplishments extend across as wide a range as Andrew Carnegie’s own philanthropy. Ms. White’s interests include education, libraries, museums, archaeology, parks, science, and the arts and humanities, and the multifaceted breadth of her giving is ever evolving.

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a highly-coveted “Public Scholar” fellowship grant to Heather Clark, a 2016-17 fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the Graduate Center, CUNY. The $50,400 award will support Clark’s work-in-progress, Sylvia Plath: The Light of the Mind, a biography of the American poet and novelist, who died in...

The New York Times - More than 70,000 playbills, posters and ephemera from the history of the Brooklyn Academy of Music — from as far back as the Civil War era — are now available through the Leon Levy BAM Digital Archive, which opened to the public on Tuesday.

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On March 15, 2016, Ruth Franklin, a 2014-15 fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography, won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography. As a Leon Levy Fellow, Ms. Franklin worked on a biography of the American writer Shirley Jackson, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life. She has been a book critic and...

The New York Times - Beginning Thursday, after years of planning and digitizing, hundreds of thousands of documents and photographs in The Museum of Modern Art's archives, previously accessible mainly to scholars, will now be available on the museum’s website, moma.org.