The Panorama of the City of New York: Book Launch Celebration

Talk Highlights:

• Get behind-the-scenes insight on the new book, The Panorama of the City of New York
• Watch a recently digitized video that shows the original “helicopter ride” around the Panorama, which is how visitors to the World’s Fair would have experienced it!
• Learn how transformations in city infrastructure and highways were presented and framed at the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair 
• See how the Panorama presented New York City to both local and visiting audiences and how its purpose has changed over time 
• Discover why the Panorama still exists and how the Queens Museum preserves and activates the model in the present

About this Event:

This virtual lecture will celebrate The Panorama of the City of New York on the occasion of the newest publication celebrating the model and the 60th anniversary of the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair. We will discuss the Panorama’s purpose, creation, and special features, and consider how this object reflected priorities of the World’s Fair in 1964. The talk will be animated by documentary photographs depicting the labor-intensive process undertaken to produce this object, and archival materials from the World’s Fair Collection at Queens Museum. 

About Lynn Maliszewski:

Lynn Maliszewski is the Assistant Director of Archives and Collections at the Queens Museum. She cares for and manages objects related to the 1939–1940 and 1964–1965 New York Worlds’ Fairs, the art collection, and institutional history. Before joining the Museum she was an associate director at Callicoon Fine Arts, New York. She has worked in an archival capacity at Andrea Rosen Gallery, Primary Information, and Printed Matter. Maliszewski is an experienced editor and has written for BOMB and The Brooklyn Rail, among others, with an emphasis on artists’ books and archival projects. She received an M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, in 2017.