Archives

The new Burle Marx Institute in Rio de Janeiro celebrates the legendary landscape artist Roberto Burle Marx with the opening of it's first exhibition with more than 1000 visitors in attendance over the weekend.

The annual Archivists Round Table Awards celebrate distinguished work and lasting achievements in the Archives profession. The Leon Levy Foundation is being honored with a 2021 Outstanding Support of Archives Award, for its notable contributions to archival records or archives programs through political, financial or moral support.

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The intimate event of approximately 150 guests, including members of BAM’s leadership board, successfully raised $1 million to help support and secure a future for BAM and the art community in Brooklyn.  The honorees, selected due to their embodiment of BAM’s “adventurous spirit and commitment to the arts,” gave their respective speeches virtually, via video. ...

Juilliard has received a grant of $233,000 from the Leon Levy Foundation for digitization of its historic archival materials, including scrapbooks, production photos, and concert programs to make them more accessible for educational and research purposes. Juilliard’s collection of 60 scrapbooks documenting the school’s history from 1905 onward is currently preserved on microfilm and will...

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...

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 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...