This visit is fully booked. Please add your name to the waitlist, and we will contact you directly if space opens up. Look out for a second visit to the Picture Collection later in 2025!
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Since its creation in 1915, The New York Public Library Picture Collection has been an unparalleled resource for artists, illustrators, designers, teachers, students, and general researchers. It offers 1.5 million circulating images clipped from books and magazines across 12,000 subject headings– from pictures of Abacus in the letter A to Zoology in Z. This arrangement of printed images into subject headings (as nouns, verbs, people, places, concepts, and times) makes it a unique instrument for visual thinking for many creative fields– in particular the fine arts; costume, set, and prop design; fashion design; and illustration.
Join our Chapter’s Chair, Jessica Cline, Supervising Librarian of The Picture Collection, for a group activity inspired by the verbal-visual dialogue in the 2009 book, Interview, by Hans-Peter Feldmann and Hans Ulrich Obrist. In the book, Obrist poses questions in writing and Feldmann responds with a picture. The results are frequently surprising, and an exercise in visual thinking and communication.
This event will be capped at 20 participants and registration is limited to members of ARLIS/NA's New York Chapter. We will meet for the visit inside Astor Hall, near the main entrance of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building.
If you have any questions about this event, feel free to reach out to Joey Vincennie, Programming Coordinator, at vincennie@frick.org.
