Solo show
Max Beerbohm: The Price of Celebrity
20 Oct 2023 — 28 Jan 2024 at New York Public Library Main Branch
· New York City
Max Beerbohm: The Price of Celebrity is an exhibition held at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building of the New York Public Library during 2023-2024. It examines the life, work, and enduring legacy of Max Beerbohm — the brilliant caricaturist, essayist, and parodist who became one of the most celebrated wits of the Victorian and Edwardian ages.
Through drawings, caricatures, letters, and rare archival materials, the exhibition explores how Beerbohm navigated — and shrewdly commented upon — the emerging culture of celebrity in his time, skewering the famous and powerful with elegant, incisive humor.
Through drawings, caricatures, letters, and rare archival materials, the exhibition explores how Beerbohm navigated — and shrewdly commented upon — the emerging culture of celebrity in his time, skewering the famous and powerful with elegant, incisive humor.
About the artist
Max Beerbohm
1872–1956
Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist under the signature Max. He first became known in the 1890s as a dandy and a humorist. He was the drama critic for the Saturday Review from 1898 until 1910, when he relocated to Rapallo, Italy. In his later years he…
About the artist →About the venue
New York Public Library Main Branch
· New York City
The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building is the flagship building in the New York Public Library system in the Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The branch, one of four research libraries in the library system, has nine divisions. Four stories of the structure are open to the public…
