Visual Art & Exhibitions at Lincoln Center

Lincoln Center is proud to present numerous art exhibitions across our campus throughout the year.

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Location: 40 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York, NY 10023-7498
Phone: 212.870.1630

Exhibitions are available during the library's normal hours:
Tues, Wed & Fri: 11 to 6; Mon, Thurs: 12 to 8; Sat: 10 to 6

Lincoln Center: Celebrating 50 Years
Donald and Mary Oenslager Gallery
From Thursday, October 15, 2009 to Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Lincoln Center: Celebrating 50 Years, the first exhibition to focus exclusively on the evolution and influence of America’s first performing arts center, will feature an extensive collection of historic and contemporary objects including photographs, ephemera, correspondence, costumes, set pieces, props and video recordings. Curated by Thomas Mellins, co-author of the book New York 1960.

Mr. Mellins will discuss key exhibition themes in a free lecture on opening day, October 15 at 6:00pm in the Library’s Bruno Walter Auditorium. From its inception in the mid 1950s, Lincoln Center has been a powerful symbol of New York’s core substance and style. Its scale, its architecture and urbanism, its concentration of talent culled from the realms of government, philanthropy, academia, architecture, art, and a broad spectrum of the performing arts, all powerfully embody main currents that run throughout New York City’s history and collective character. Lincoln Center: Celebrating 50 Years will show the complex and symbiotic relationship between Lincoln Center and New York City over the course of a half century and the key role Lincoln Center has played in New York’s development as an international cultural capital.

Learn more at LincolnCenter.org/50

Each year, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts produces a comprehensive series of free public programs in its Bruno Walter Auditorium. Programs include lectures, panel discussions, performances, master classes, readings, and screenings. For further information visit the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts website call 212.642.0142.

List Art Collection at Lincoln Center

A gallery of List Art Prints is on display on the East Promenade of Avery Fisher Hall (facing Broadway). Patrons are encouraged to visit during showtimes, or by appointment. Appointments can be made by visiting the Avery Fisher Hall Information Desk, by phone 212.875.5017, or by e-mail: mrankin@lincolncenter.org

Created over 40 years ago through a generous endowment by
Albert & Vera List, the Lincoln Center/List Collection of collectible prints and posters is a survey of four decades of important movements in contemporary art. Notable artists such as Jennifer Bartlett, Ross Bleckner, Helen Frankenthaler, Wolf Kahn, Alex Katz, Jacob Lawrence, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Longo, Robert Mangold, Elizabeth Murray,
Jules Olitski, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, Joel Shapiro,
Pat Steir, Andy Warhol, Terry Winters, and many others have contributed to this program.

View and purchase Collectible Posters and Prints