Figures that the minute I go on maternity leave my workplace (the Children’s Center at 42nd Street in the main branch of NYPL) goes and gets itself something neat. Check it out.
The exhibit is called Children’s Book Illustrators and Authors Come Alive. That’s a title I admittedly find rather amusing since it implies that these folks have risen from their grave to display their work in the Children’s Center. Zombie art! At any rate this is the first time the room has displayed art of any kind, so we’re rather thrilled. The current exhibit features eleven different author/illustrators, all of whom published books in the 2010/11 season. Some other shots:
And that’s not all! For about two years now the room has been sitting on a painting created specifically for the Children’s Center by none other than Todd Parr himself. Now the art is up for one and all to see and it melds with the space so beautifully that the last three times I was there I failed to even notice it. Voila!
The exhibit of art is up from now until the end of the year. The Todd Parr painting may well be permanent. If you would like to view any of these, please be so good as to stop by. I’ll be around after September 15th and would be happy to give you a little tour.