{"id":6498,"date":"2025-01-19T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=6498"},"modified":"2025-01-22T07:43:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T13:43:02","slug":"new-york-public-library-announces-new-yorker-centennial-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2025\/01\/19\/new-york-public-library-announces-new-yorker-centennial-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Public Library announces New Yorker centennial exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A Century of\u00a0<em>The New Yorker<\/em>&#8221; exhibition will open at The New York Public Library on February 22, 2025, City Life Org reported. The exhibition &#8220;showcases the historic transformations&#8221; of one of America&#8217;s iconic and most distinguished magazines.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6499\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-19-at-10.44.17\u202fAM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"250\" \/>Displays will include founding documents, rare manuscripts, photos, cover and cartoon art, and artifacts on loan from other institutions&#8211;all intended to take visitors &#8220;behind the scenes of the making of one of the United States&#8217;s most important magazines,&#8221; according to City Life Org.<\/p>\n<p><em>The New Yorker\u00a0<\/em>transferred its extensive archive and records to The New York Public Library in 1991. That archive\u20142,500 boxes (1058 linear feet)\u2014is one of the Library&#8217;s largest collections.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights from the exhibition include:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The prospectus for\u00a0<em>The New Yorker\u00a0<\/em>(1924)<\/li>\n<li>Original artwork for the first issue of\u00a0<em>The New Yorker<\/em> by Rea Irvin (1925)<\/li>\n<li>W.H. Auden\u2019s handwritten draft of \u201cRefugee Blues\u201d (1939)<\/li>\n<li>John Updike\u2019s handwritten assignments for Talk of the Town (1950s)<\/li>\n<li>Original signed art by Helen Hokinson (1941)<\/li>\n<li><em>The New Yorker<\/em> type identification and style guide (1981)<\/li>\n<li>Correspondence between William Shawn and John Hersey related to \u201cHiroshima\u201d (1946)<\/li>\n<li>The typescript draft of \u201cIn Cold Blood\u201d by Truman Capote, with revisions and deletions by William Shawn (1965)<\/li>\n<li>Hannah Arendt\u2019s original typescript manuscript of \u201cEichmann in Jerusalem\u201d (1963)<\/li>\n<li>Cynthia Ozick, \u201cThe Fallibility Rag,\u201d poem dedicated to\u00a0<em>New Yorker<\/em> grammarian Eleanor Gould (1987)<\/li>\n<li>A mock-up of the first\u00a0<em>New Yorker<\/em> website and other 21st-century artifacts<\/li>\n<li>Original film featuring current and recent writers, editors, and staff exploring the history, legacy, and future of\u00a0<em>The New Yorker<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Members of the John Updike and Philip Roth societies who attend the joint conference in New York City in October 19-22, 2025 will have time to head to Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street to explore the library and the exhibition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A Century of\u00a0The New Yorker&#8221; exhibition will open at The New York Public Library on February 22, 2025, City Life Org reported. The exhibition &#8220;showcases the historic transformations&#8221; of one of America&#8217;s iconic and most distinguished magazines. Displays will include &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2025\/01\/19\/new-york-public-library-announces-new-yorker-centennial-exhibition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,22,1,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8th-biennial-roth-updike-conference","category-museums-exhibitions","category-uncategorized","category-updike-in-context"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6513,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6498\/revisions\/6513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}