INterSECTS: Where Arthropods and Homo Sapiens Meet
This exhibition presents excerpts from artist Peter Kuper’s forthcoming graphic novel, which he developed while working in the Library (42nd St).
Kuper was inspired by his experiences exploring the Library while conducting research on the history of insects. He began his fellowship during the pandemic and was able to roam the building during a time when it was closed to the general public. Finding himself virtually alone in the vast Beaux-Arts rooms and hallways of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, he began imagining arthropods occupying this unexpectedly and unprecedentedly vacant environment.
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