Today would have been the 77th birthday of legendary boxer and civil rights leader Muhammad Ali. New-York Historical has a legacy of interpreting Ali’s life, both on an ongoing basis through our Time Inc. Archive as well as through two specific exhibitions in 2017—“I Am King of the World”: Photographs of Muhammad Ali by George Kalinsky and…
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Andrea Davis Pinkney on “Bird in a Box” and Joe Louis
February 3, 2017
written by Rachel Walman If you’ve visited our two exhibitions on Muhammad Ali, you know that boxing has played a major role in American culture and history. This Sunday, the Reading into History Family Book Club will celebrate Black History Month and learn about another boxer who, like Ali, became a legend in and…
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Meet Curator Lily Wong: Interview by a Kid Reporter
January 30, 2017
Written by N-YHS History Detectives Kid Reporter Riley Neubauer, age 13 When you visit the New-York Historical Society, you might wonder how their great exhibits are produced—I know I did! So I met with Lily Wong, who is the curator of the new exhibition, Muhammad Ali, LeRoy Neiman, and the Art of Boxing. I…
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“The Greatest”: A Kid Reporter Goes Behind the Scenes of the N-YHS’s exhibition, “Muhammad Ali, LeRoy Neiman, and the Art of Boxing”
December 16, 2016
Written by N-YHS History Detectives Kid Reporter Riley Neubauer, age 13 The New-York Historical Society’s new exhibit on Muhammad Ali and LeRoy Neiman gives everyone the opportunity to see a different side of Ali. Most people know him as the extraordinary boxer whose refusal to be drafted into the Vietnam War cost him three-and-a-half years…
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