Columbia GSAPP presents PEOPLE CROSS AGAINST THE LIGHT: Michael Sorkin’s New York, on view from February 26 through June 26, 2026 at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery in Buell Hall. The exhibition focuses on eight speculative architectural projects that Michael Sorkin and collaborators designed for New York City between 1987 and 1996—a period during which […]
Category: Exhibitions
Fragments: Pieces of our Past
Avery Library partnered with GSAPP’s Historic Preservation program on an exhibition of architectural fragments organized by Richard Pieper, Norman Weiss and Mika Tal. The fragments come from the collection of the Preservation Technology Laboratory and the private collections of the organizers and professionals in the field. The exhibition can be found in the display cases […]
New life for an old friend: Ming Dynasty sculpture on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Anyone who has visited the Faculty Room in Low Library over many decades may recall seeing a cheerful statue of a child made of gilded bronze. Sometimes a work of art on view in the same location can lead to its eventual “invisibility,” so when an opportunity was offered to showcase this sculpture from Art […]
Landscape(d): an exhibition
Avery Library is pleased to announce that a new exhibition, Landscape(d), with eleven paintings from the Art Properties collection, is now on view in the Judith Lee Stronach Center, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Schermerhorn Hall. This exhibition is the eighth iteration organized by students in the MA in Art History program, under the guidance […]
Avery Library Celebrates the Opening of Frank Lloyd Wright and the World: The Imperial Hotel at 100
Avery Library’s Drawings & Archives department is pleased to participate in a landmark touring exhibition about the international influence of Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright and the World: The Imperial Hotel at 100. Opening to the public on October 21, 2023 at Japan’s Toyota Municipal Art Museum, the exhibition is organized by the […]
The Inquiring Eye: European Drawings from the Lola Szladits Collection
The 7th MA in Art History Presents project, in which graduate students curate a small exhibition from the Art Properties, Avery Library collection, under the guidance of Prof. Frederique Baumgartner and Curator of Art Properties Roberto C. Ferrari, is now on view. The title of this year’s show is The Inquiring Eye: European Drawings from […]
Connections in Collections
February 10 – April 15, 2020 Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Wallach Study Center for Art & Architecture, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library Now open in Avery Library’s Wallach Study Center for Art and Architecture is the new exhibition “Connections in Collections: Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture.” Co-curated by Roberto […]
Clodion and “Clodion Mania” Exhibition
September 24 – December 13, 2019 Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Wallach Study Center for Art & Architecture, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library Now on view in Avery Library is the new exhibition Clodion (1738-1814) and “Clodion Mania” in Nineteenth-Century France. This exhibition is the third in a series curated by […]
Avery Art Properties in 20 and Odd Exhibition
Art Properties is pleased to be among the lenders to the current exhibition 20 and Odd: The 400-Year Anniversary of 1619, now on view in the Leroy Neiman Gallery, Dodge Hall, on the Morningside campus until September 30, 2019. This exhibition commemorates the 400-year anniversary of the first documented arrival of Africans landing at the […]
Animalia
June 17 – September 13, 2019 Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Wallach Study Center for Art & Architecture, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library Now on view in Avery Library is a new summer exhibition called Animalia, which celebrates the essence of animal life as depicted in sculpture, decorative arts, and cultural heritage objects, all […]