Avery Library Announces Major Gift of the Michael Sorkin Collection: Internationally Renowned Architecture Critic, Designer, Urbanist, & Professor Devoted to Social Justice

  Avery Library is pleased to announce the major gift of Michael Sorkin’s papers, architectural records, and drawings to the Drawings & Archives department. This significant collection comprises approximately 40 linear feet of records related to Sorkin’s architectural projects, articles, films, exhibitions, and other works, over 2,000 drawings (primarily conceptual sketches and site plans), as […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Teri Harris Announced as Director of Avery Library

Vice Provost and University Librarian Ann D. Thornton has announced the appointment of Teresa (Teri) Harris as Director of Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library. Harris will assume the Director role on August 1, overseeing all aspects of Avery’s operations, including collection development, research services, access services, art properties, digitization and exhibition loan programs, facilities management, and the […]

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Avery welcomes Michelle Jackson-Beckett

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Michelle Jackson-Beckett as Curator of Avery Drawings & Archives. Michelle received her Ph.D. from the Bard Graduate Center in May of 2022. Her dissertation entitled “Vienna’s Other Modernism: Design and Dwelling 1918-1938” examines critical challenges to western European paradigms of modern architecture and interiors, focusing especially on […]

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Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archival collections

Although Avery Library is closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our librarians and archivists are still busy at work providing reference services, supporting teaching, and processing collections. Most recently, Archivist Pamela Casey in Avery’s Drawings & Archives department published the finding aid for the Project Photographs collection in the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives. This […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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