Title: A.R.T. Annual Business Meeting
Date & Time: Friday, June 12, 2026, 12:00 PM (EST)
Format: Zoom
The Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York (ART) is pleased to announce its Annual Business Meeting, which will be held via Zoom on Friday, June 12, 2026, from 12:00 to 1:00 PM (EST). Please join us to learn about the past year's activities, upcoming programming, professional development opportunities, and community initiatives with the A.R.T Board. We will also introduce the new members of the A.R.T. Board of Directors.
The Annual Meeting provides an opportunity for members to meet, ask questions, and hear from current, incoming, and outgoing board members.
This is a free, virtual meeting hosted via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Upon registering, you will receive a confirmation via email with a link to join the meeting.
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Image courtesy of the Grolier Club
Title: Tour of “Risings: The Irish Literary Revival and the Making of a Nation” at the Grolier Club
Date & Time: Wednesday, June 17th, 2026 at 5:45 PM (Tour begins promptly at 6:00 PM)
Duration: 1 hour
Capacity: 20
Admission: Free! (ART Members only)
Location: The Grolier Club, 47 E 60th St, New York, NY 10022
Join us for a tour of “Risings: The Irish Literary Revival and the Making of a Nation,” led by curators Alexander Neubauer and Alan Klein at the Grolier Club. The exhibition explores the formation of Irish identity through the Irish Literary Revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the parallel political quest for Irish nationhood. Presented in collaboration with The New York Public Library and featuring newly discovered material from their collection, Risings is on view in The Grolier Club’s ground floor gallery from April 29 through July 25, 2026.
Curated by Alexander Neubauer and Alan Klein from their collections, Risings features approximately 150 objects, with more than 30 items drawn from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection at The New York Public Library. The exhibition features rare books, manuscripts, letters, theatre pamphlets, political propaganda, and photographs that situate a prolific period of literary production in the broader context of political unrest. An accompanying catalogue, published by The Grolier Club, will be available in spring 2026, and the Club will present a Risings festival of related programming, including lectures, readings, and performances
This is an in-person event limited to 20 attendees. Registration is non-transferable. Please note that you MUST reserve a ticket in advance online in order to attend this event.
In the occasion that the event is sold out, we highly recommend joining the waitlist. An ART staff member will reach out to you if a spot becomes available. Unless you've been given permission, please do not show up at the event without registering.
How to find the Grolier Club
The Grolier Club is located at 47 E 60th St, New York, NY 10022, between Madison Ave and Park Ave. It is a short walk from the 59th st and 5th Ave N, R, and W trains, the 59th st and Lexington Ave 4, 5, and 6 trains and the 57th st F train.
About
Founded in 1884, the Grolier Club is America's oldest and largest society for bibliophiles and is a unique library, museum and clubhouse. It is headquartered in a 1917 Georgian Revival building designed by club member and noted architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. In the public galleries and members-only spaces, highlights include a Dutch Colonial-style tavern and a soaring Neoclassical research library with 100,000 volumes that shed light on how the printed word and image have disseminated information for millennia.
A Brief History of the Grolier Club
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Please note that by registering and attending this event/webinar, you automatically grant your consent to be photographed and/ or video-recorded and to the release, publication, or reproduction of any and all recorded media of your appearance, voice, and name for any purpose whatsoever in perpetuity in connection with the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York, Inc. and its initiatives, including, by way of example only, use on websites, in social media, news, newsletters, Metropolitan Archivist, and advertising.
Image courtesy of the American Museum of Paramusicology
Title: An Introduction to the American Museum of Paramusicology
Date & Time: Monday, June 22, 2026, at 1:00 PM
Capacity: 100
Admission: Free! (open to A.R.T. Members & Non-Members)
Format: Webinar via Zoom
Join Archivists Round Table for an inside look at the American Museum of Paramusicology (AMP), an independent research-driven archive and education platform based in Greensboro, North Carolina. AMP director Matt Marble will share some of the highlights of the archive, revealing how metaphysical philosophies and alternative spiritual traditions have helped shape American music.
This is a free, virtual webinar hosted via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Upon registering for the webinar, you will receive a confirmation via email with a link to join the webinar. This webinar will be video recorded. Please note that registration caps at 100 attendees.
The American Museum of Paramusicology (AMP), established independently in 2021, is an artist-directed archival and research project exploring metaphysical influences in American music. Through collected recordings, texts, photographs, letters, and ephemera, it traces how musicians have found creative agency through spiritual inquiry and esoteric traditions. As a platform for public-facing scholarship, the AMP produces podcasts, publications, lectures, and exhibitions which distill and interpret the archive for a broader audience. This project illuminates overlooked histories and marginalized artists, while inviting new encounters with sound, consciousness, and the American musical imagination. It notably produces the monthly AMP Journal, featuring historical essays, archival studies, and interviews with contemporary artists. Learn more about the AMP here.
Speaker Bio
Matt Marble fell in love with archives while researching his first book, Buddhist Bubblegum: Esotericism in the Creative Process of Arthur Russell (“groundbreaking work,” The New York Times). He has since built an independent archive focused on metaphysically inspired American music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He recently curated the archival exhibition “I Hear Strange Music” for NYU’s Occult Humanities Conference. Materials from his archive have also appeared in Alistair McDowell’s play The Glow (2022) and George C. Wolfe’s Netflix film Rustin (2023). He independently shares his research through the Secret Sound podcast and the monthly AMP Journal and has received a fellowship from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. Matt holds a Ph.D. in music composition from Princeton University.
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