An examination of the Nazi regime in Germany looks at the embrace of eugenics as the way to an ideal society, and its horrifying consequences. Propaganda materials from both regimes are juxtaposed with harsher images of their reality. The research curator for the exhibition at NYPL is Holland Goss. A consortium of cultural institutions is organizing programming, including lectures, film series, and academic symposia, related to Utopia to take place throughout the New York metropolitan area in the fall and winter of 2000. In late 2001, Oxford University Press will also publish a series of essays on utopia, based on talks to be given at The New York Public Library in January 2001.
Admission is free.
For a recorded message about exhibitions at The New York Public Library, the public may call 212.869.8089. Additional support for this exhibition has been provided by Delta Air Lines. Inc. Support for this exhibition has been provided by a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, as part of State Humanities Month. Official Partner of the Millennium Council. A related exhibition of cartoons by New Yorker cartoonist Charles Addams, Dystopias and Alternate Realities, looks at different, but not necessarily better, worlds.