Below please find some exhibits created by New York Encounter volunteers and shown in past years’ editions. They may be downloaded for free. Click the preview images below to view low-resolution versions of the exhibit panels. These may be circulated and shared on tablets, computers, and other devices. If you are interested in receiving the high-resolution panels for printing purposes, please email us at info@newyorkencounter.org.
2026
‘Cry Out to Him Who Is Now’
Time and the Temple: The Home From Which Our Homes Are Born
Time and the Temple is a collection of meditations on Christian vocation given by Fr. Luigi Giussani in the final decade of his life.
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2026
Twice Called
The Martyrs of Algeria
The exhibition, created in collaboration with Oasis, pays tribute to the 19 Algerian martyrs killed in terrorist attacks during the so-called Black Decade of the country (1992–2002) and aims to spread awareness of their sacrifice.
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2026
The Matter of Time
The meaning of time in science, history, and life
Through the lenses of history, physics, and biology, this exhibit explores how different ages and disciplines have understood the nature of time—and what these perspectives reveal about its meaning in our own lives.
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2026
There Is No Greater Love
The Journey to Holiness of Franz and Franziska Jägerstätter
The exhibit traces the extraordinary journey of Franz and Franziska Jägerstätter, an Austrian couple whose ordinary rural life rooted in their Catholic faith became a path to holiness.
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2026
“You Can’t Die for a Dollar”
The Revolution of Amadeo Peter Giannini
The exhibition aims to retrace the episodes in the life of Amadeo Peter Giannini (1870–1949), born to Italian immigrant parents and the founder of the Bank of Italy, which later became the Bank of America.
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2025
A New Beginning in America
Vietnamese Americans Fifty Years After the Fall of Saigon
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The Matter of Time
The meaning of time in science, history, and life
Through the lenses of history, physics, and biology, this exhibit explores how different ages and disciplines have understood the nature of time—and what these perspectives reveal about its meaning in our own lives.
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2025
“The past [is] all made up”
Memory and Disconnection in HBO’s Succession
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2025
A Life Rich with Music
Fr. Giussani, a Man Wounded by the Desire for Beauty
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2024
‘If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.’
The Pedagogy of Fr. Luigi Giussani
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2024
‘Who shall I say is calling?’
Heartbreak and Mystery in the Work of Leonard Cohen
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2024
AI and I: Wonder, Create, Work
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2024
Armenia: Ancient Culture, Enduring Faith
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2024
‘The intelligence can only be led by desire.’
The Journey of Simone Weil
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2023
’The trunk is rooted where the truth lies.’
The Self and the Other in the life and thought of Father Giussani
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2023
’No trivial matter’: Nietzsche’s Urge for the Truth
An exhibit on Friedrich Nietzsche
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2023
Signs Awaiting Discovery: The Story Rocks Tell Us
An exhibit on geology
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2023
‘You have to put your heart in everything you do’
An exhibit on the Servant of God Enzo Piccinini, surgeon, son, father, and friend
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2022
The Journey to the Truth
An exhibit on the Servant of God Fr. Luigi Giussani on the centennial of his birth
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2022
Nature Is a Spectacle that Is Never Exhausted
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2022
“As far as my heart, I’d rather be restless”:
Amy Winehouse's Ache for the Truth
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2020
Giussani in America
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2020
‘A human being is a remarkable thing’
Exhibit on the wartime writings of Dutch-Jewish woman Etty Hillesum (1941-1943)
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2020
Crossing the Divide: From Ideology to Wonder
Exhibit on the Encounter’s theme
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2019
Something is Happening Here
Bob Dylan, the Man and His Music
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2019
‘From my life to yours’
An exhibit by high school students on Fr. Luigi Giussani, founder of Communion and Liberation
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2019
The Kindness of Science
Three masters in medicine: Takashi Nagai, Giancarlo Rastelli, and Cicely Saunders. Each valued their patients until the very end because of their existence.
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2018
A Catholic Paradox: The Life and Words of Dorothy Day
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2018
Surprise Encounters
Stories of immigration, hospitality, and changed lives
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2017
Education: Discovering the Promise of Reality
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2017
An American Dream… Come True
A journey with Isaac Jogues, Jean de Brébeuf, and Companions, Junípero Serra, Damien of Molokai, and Katharine Drexel
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2016
A People, a Face, a Newness in Everyday Rubble
An Encounter with Christians in the Middle East
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2016
Explorers
A journey to the edge of the Solar system and beyond
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2016
Generating Beauty: New beginnings at the ends of the earth
Stories of hope in international development
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2015
Men and Women at Work
An exhibit on the painting of Jean-François Millet
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2015
I Am Exceptional: the Millennial Experience
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2015
Jérôme Lejeune: A True Scientist
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2015
The Face of Sanctity, the Human Face
An exhibit on the lives of Elizabeth Ann Seton and Frances Xavier Cabrini
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2015
Evolution and Human Nature
An exhibit on the current understanding of biological evolution
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2015
The Light of the Resurrection in the Peripheries of the World
An exhibit on the art and work of Fr. Costantino Ruggeri, OFM
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2014
Humanity: The Strangest Thing in the Cosmos
The Mystery of the Self in the Life and Works of Walker Percy
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