The Mikhail Baryshnikov Archive
For some twenty years, the Jerome Robbins Dance Division curators have been speaking with Mikhail Baryshnikov, one of the most celebrated dancers of the Twentieth Century, about the possibility of acquiring his collection. So, we were thrilled, when on July 14, 2011, Mikhail Baryshnikov donated his archive to The New York Public Library. The process of acquiring a collection, even a donated one, is long and complica…