The New York Public Library is hosting a pop-up display of items curated by this year’s Library Lions. The honorees include Alan Bennett, Judith Jamison, Maira Kalman, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Gloria Steinem.
Each participant selected two items for “Sources of Inspiration: Celebrating the 2015 Library Lions.” Visitors will be able to view this exhibit at the the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. A closing date has been set for Nov. 1.
Here’s more from the press release: “The items include: Alan Bennett: An annotated typescript of his play History Boys from the Library for the Performing Arts and Nabokov’s annotated copy of Kafka’s Metamorphosis from the Berg Collection. Judith Jamison: Video footage of her performance with Mikhail Baryshnikov from the Library for the Performing Arts and Jack Kerouac’s notes and a hand-drawn map that he used as preparatory material for On the Road from the Berg Collection. Maira Kalman: An illustration she created for Strunk and White’s Elements of Style from her personal collection and a drawing for Madeline and the Bad Hat by Ludwig Bemelmans from the Library’s Rare Book Division. Karl Ove Knausgaard: An excerpt (in Norwegian) from an early chapter of My Struggle from his personal collection and a rare turn-of-the-century French edition of Madame Bovary from the Spencer Collection. Gloria Steinem: An early edition of Ms. Magazine from her personal collection and an unpublished feminist poem by Louisa May Alcott entitled ‘Most Women Do Whatever They Can’ from the Berg Collection.”