The Fales Library & Special Collections

04/25/2025

RSVP: https://on_STUFF.eventbrite.com

In celebration of the publication of STUFF. A New York Life of Cultural Chaos, NYU Special Collections will welcome writer, editor, curator and collector Kim Hastreiter for a conversation with Whitney Mallett and Carlo McCormick, moderated by Nicholas Martin.

04/25/2024

Join us on Monday, April 29, for Practicing Food Studies: NYU’s Perspective on the Field- a virtual panel discussion from the Critical Topics in Food event series.

A Critical Topics in Food virtual panel discussion.

04/17/2024

42 years. God!

02/02/2024

Join us on Tuesday, Feb 6, at 6:00 PM for A Q***r Sense of Place: Jack Smith's New York, with author Diarmuid Hester.

Diarmuid Hester will speak about filmmaker, visual and performance artist Jack Smith

09/25/2023

Join us on Thursday at 6:00 for Othering CalArts. A panel discussion celebrating the feminist movements amongst the student body and faculty of the California Institute of the Arts.

A panel discussion celebrating the feminist movements amongst the student body and faculty of the California Institute of the Arts.

09/18/2023

Join us tomorrow for the exhibition opening of LifeWork: The Kathe Burkhart Papers. More info and RSVP on Eventbrite:

Gallery Exhibition Opening

08/31/2023

Sunday lunch.

04/22/2022

Join us for "Staging the Self: Martha Wilson's Journals," a presentation and conversation with Martha Wilson. Tuesday, April 26, 6:00 PM. RSVP:

A presentation and conversation with Martha Wilson.

09/27/2019

The memorial for Douglas Crimp is on Nov. 2nd.

View all Saturday, November 2 1pm (doors open at 12:30pm) Free and open to all Danspace Project Share Close ShareA Memorial for Douglas Crimp: Mourning and Militancy Email Facebook Twitter A Memorial for Douglas Crimp: Mourning and Militancy Douglas Crimp, NYC, 2016. Photo: Alice O'Malley. 12:30pm:....

09/19/2019

Sarah Jacobson's films are being released to bluRay! Her papers are in the downtown collection.

Thanks to a new release from the American Genre Film Archive, an obscure yet ahead of her time feminist auteur is finally getting her due.

09/13/2019

Washington Square News in NYU's student news paper. A young student did a super review of the Quilt and only got one fact wrong!

Fifty years ago and four blocks away from Washington Square Park, the modern movement for gay rights caught fire. In the early hours of June 28, 1969, resistance to police brutality at the Stonewall Inn led to riots that would redefine LGBTQ Americans’ fight for civil rights. To raise awareness o