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Related Exhibitions and Programs

 

Complementary Exhibition

Drawings by Charles Addams: The Unnatural
Charles Addams Gallery (third floor)
September 13, 2002–January 25, 2003

These drawings featuring the plant, animal, and otherworldly kingdoms suggest that New Yorker cartoonist Charles Addams found nature to be anything but natural.

Public Programs

Urban Neighbors, Urban Neighborhoods: Celebrating and Protecting New York’s Wildlife and Green Spaces
Two panel discussions and a lecture presented in conjunction with the exhibition. All events take place at 6:30 p.m. in the Humanities and Social Sciences Library’s South Court Auditorium. Tickets ($10 for the general public; $7 for Library donors) may be purchased by mail, fax (212.642.0101), online, or in the Library Shops. For additional information, telephone 212.930.0571; consult the Fall/Winter Public Programs brochure; or visit the Library’s Public Education Program’s website.
Tuesday, October 29 Lynden B. Miller: "Planting for People: Public Parks and Gardens of New York"

Thursday, November 7 "Discovering and Defending the City’s Wildlife: A Conversation with Conservationists," with David Burg, Michael Crewdson, Michael J. Feller, Marcia Fowle, Tony Hiss, and Michael W. Klemens

Tuesday, November 12 "You Gotta Have Park® Revisited: An Investigation into the Politics of New York’s Parks," with Adrian Benepe, Jerold S. Kayden, Andrew Kirtzman, Mike Klein, Joseph Pupello, and Elizabeth Barlow Rogers