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✨ Step into the world of Hot Peaches, where glitter met politics and performance became protest. ✨ Join us at NYU Skirball and Bobst Library for a week of free events celebrating the legacy of Hot Peaches, the trailblazing downtown queer performance troupe active from the 1970s to the early 2000s, whose members include Jimmy Camicia, Marsha P. Johnson, Peggy Shaw, Sister Tooey, Wilhelmina Ross, and Ian McKay. In the frame: Lavinia Co-op, photo from the Downtown Collection at the NYU Special Collections. Your Limp Wrist Makes a Fist 🗓️ Thu, Oct 23 at 6 PM 📍 Bobst Library RSVP: https://lnkd.in/e6Kfdy7J Celebrating Hot Peaches 🗓️ Sun, Oct 26 at 3 PM 📍 NYU Skirball RSVP: https://lnkd.in/eKvdCsPp These events are part of Archives Onstage, a new interdisciplinary, cross-campus series, produced by NYU Skirball and NYU’s Division of Libraries. The series highlights the Libraries’ significant performing-arts related archival holdings in relation to contemporary art and scholarship on campus, in order to situate these archives as integral to the past, present and future lives of the university and its surrounding artistic communities. Co-curated by Rye Gentleman and J de Leon.

It’s Open Access Week (https://lnkd.in/dTZyuryh) at NYU Libraries! All year round, we help readers gain free access to materials that would typically be behind a paywall, and we help authors of scholarly research find the right place to publish their own work, all with the goal of making knowledge freely available to everyone. This week, we’re sharing some of our top resources. 🔓 Open Access 101 🔓 https://lnkd.in/eYxTBkbt Our Open Access Research Guide will introduce you to the basics of open access scholarship, where to find open access materials, and how to make your research openly accessible online. 🔓 Find Open Access Materials 🔓 https://lnkd.in/eN_iaRDK There are plenty of online repositories and journals where you can find open scholarly content. If you need help finding open access resources in a particular field, reach out to one of our subject specialists. 🔓 Share Your Research Your Way 🔓 As advocates for open access, we offer multiple open access repositories and support researchers in preparing materials for publishing and long-term preservation, so your work remains in your hands and accessible to all. 🌐 UltraViolet | https://lnkd.in/eYErqyVc An NYU data repository managed in partnership by NYU Libraries and NYU IT. Here you can discover original research materials like data or code, access proprietary data licensed for use by the NYU community, and deposit your own research for open access and long-term discoverability. 🌐 Faculty Digital Archive (FDA) | https://archive.nyu.edu/ A highly visible repository of NYU scholarship, allowing digital works—text, audio, video, data, and more—to be reliably shared and securely stored. Collections may be made freely available worldwide, offered to NYU only, or restricted to a specific group. 🌐 NYU Manifold | https://lnkd.in/ePJN397B A flexible digital publishing platform that anyone at NYU can use for many kinds of scholarship including, open educational resources, open access journals, ebooks, and other edited collections of longer form works. #OAWeek

Join us for a book talk with author and historian Aaron J. Leonard to celebrate the publication of "Menace of Our Time: The Long War Against American Communism". Hosted by Tamiment Library and NYU Special Collections. Free and open to the public. RSVP required.

Join curator Giana Ricci and artists from "The Public's Domain: Transforming Iconic Works of Fiction and Sound" to view the original film "Pandora's Box" (1929). Directed by George Wilhelm Pabst, "Pandora's Box" follows the rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her. Having entered the public domain in 2025, Pandora's Box inspired several of the artists in "The Public's Domain" exhibition to create new works based on its content. Free and open to the public. RSVP required.

Join us in for a panel discussion in Bobst Library during a week of free events celebrating the legacy of Hot Peaches, the trailblazing downtown queer performance troupe active from the 70s to the early 2000s whose members included Jimmy Camicia, Marsha P. Johnson, Peggy Shaw, Sister Tooey, Wilhelmina Ross, and Ian McKay. This upcoming Archives Onstage panel will feature Hugh Ryan, David Getsy, Joe Jeffreys, and others, and will be moderated by Helen Shaw. Free and open to the public. RSVP required. — Archives Onstage is a new interdisciplinary, cross-campus series, produced by NYU Skirball and NYU’s Division of Libraries. The series highlights the LIbraries’ significant performing-arts related archival holdings in relation to contemporary art and scholarship on campus, in order to situate these archives as integral to the past, present and future lives of the university and its surrounding artistic communities. Co-curated by Rye Gentleman and J de Leon.

Join NYU Libraries for the exhibition opening of "The Public's Domain: Transforming Iconic Works of Fiction and Sound", an exhibition featuring selected work from NYU students, alumni, faculty, and staff.

Join NYU Libraries and the School of Liberal Studies in celebrating the opening of "The River That Flows Both Ways", a commissioned installation by artist and professor Jacqueline Bishop. This event will feature a conversation between the artist and Destinee Filmore from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

**Announcing the branding and visual identity for New York University Press** Officially launching at the Brooklyn Book Festival on September 21, 2025 As described by its designer Austin Gutierrez: “Rooted in tradition but designed for the future, this logo reflects NYU Press’ vision while paying homage to its scholarly heritage. By combining the brand equity of NYU Press with the broader recognition of NYU, the logo reinforces a cohesive identity across platforms and audiences. At its center, the Washington Square Arch—an iconic symbol of New York City—has been reinterpreted in a contemporary form, thoughtfully designed to remain relevant and distinctive across print and digital applications for years to come.” Under the new leadership of director Eric I. Schwartz, NYU Press has also updated its mission statement to reflect its embeddedness within the larger NYU community and its long standing commitment as a publisher dedicated to the humanities and social sciences. Our mission: “Downtown to the World,” NYU Press amplifies NYU's leadership in global higher education and research through influential publications that embody the university's core mission and creative identity. We publish works that bridge academic fields, providing insightful theory, robust empirical data, and compelling untold stories, championing a vibrant and distinctive understanding of our world. Committed to a culture of trust, accountability, and collaboration, we create resources that bolster NYU's strategic priorities. Our innovative storytelling showcases NYU's dedication to fostering stellar scholarship, teaching, and research, promoting human flourishing within and beyond the global NYU community. Please join us in celebrating these exciting new changes at NYU Press. 

With the new academic year just underway, The Violet Edition sat down with Kristina Rose, Dean of Libraries, to talk about where libraries are headed, what makes them meaningful, and how her own story fits into that evolving picture. Throughout our conversation, we discussed libraries as a space of knowledge and personal connection; the evolving roles of academic libraries in the digital era; the importance of accessibility and student voices in libraries; and Dean Rose’s own winding, unexpected path to librarianship. Along the way, her wit, honesty, and appreciation for this work shine through—whether she’s reminiscing about the past or charting the course ahead. Read the full interview: https://lnkd.in/ehsASX25

Paperboy bags and caps took center stage at the recent opening of "Bringing the Daily Worker to the World". The "Daily Worker" and "People’s World" covered nearly every major story of the 20th century, speaking broadly to all aspects of the American Left. Worker and World photographers captured stories of labor, immigration, race, class, and political culture in the United States, including historic and watershed events. With support from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, nearly 185,000 images from the "Daily Worker" and the "Daily World" Negatives Collection are now available digitally and publicly for the first time. The exhibition features images chosen by student employees who helped bring this project to light, alongside original creative works inspired by their labor on the project. 🗓️ On view now in the Special Collections Gallery (Bobst Library, 2nd Floor) through September 12 📸 Photos by Nora Lambert, NYU-TV