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Symposium | Perspectives on Dutch Drawings, Part 2

Symposium | Perspectives on Dutch Drawings, Part 1

Symposium | Perspectives on Dutch Drawings

The Morgan Drawing Institute is pleased to present a symposium held in conjunction with Far and Away: Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection on view June 28 through September 22, 2024. Held Friday, September 20, 2024.

Symposium | Belle da Costa Greene

Complementing the opening of the exhibition Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy, this one-day scholarly symposium will bring together experts working on Belle Greene and/or the fields relevant to our understanding of her life and career, including African American history and literature, the history of museums and libraries, Medieval studies, art history, feminist bibliography, and book history. Held Friday, October 25, 2024.

Centennial Conversations | Maria Popova & Marie Howe: How to Be a Living Poem

A conversation with Maria Popova and poet Marie Howe, lensed through the original manuscripts of William Blake's Auguries of Innocence and Walt Whitman's "O Captain, My Captain!". Held Tuesday, October 15, 2024.

Collection in Focus: Anthony Roth Costanzo on the power of written music

Watch opera singer Anthony Roth Constanzo discuss his career and passion for music. From Gluck to Handel to Mozart to Philip Glass, Constanzo takes us through the history of music performance.

Crafting the Ballets Russes: The Robert Owen Lehman Collection

Robinson McClellan, Associate Curator of Music Manuscripts and Printed Music, discusses the importance of Robert Owen Lehman’s extraordinary collection of music manuscripts that has been an inspiration to scholars and visitors since it was placed on deposit at the Morgan Library & Museum.

Collection in Focus: James Ivory on his archive and creative process

For our Centennial, we asked some of our friends and collaborators to speak about what they love about the Morgan Library & Museum. Watch James Ivory discuss his working process through his archive, which has been at the Morgan since 2017.

The George and Nora London Foundation: Blake Denson, baritone, and Kevin Miller, piano

Compelling baritone Blake Denson (2020 George London Award winner) recently performed Yamadori in Madama Butterfly and Pastor/Kaboom in Fire Shut Up in My Bones at the Metropolitan Opera. Held Sunday, April 28, 2024.

Lecture: Liberty to Imagination: Drawings from the Eveillard Gift

Join Colin B. Bailey, Katharine J. Rayner Director of The Morgan Library & Museum, for a special opening night lecture that explores drawings by Rembrandt, Watteau, Degas, Renoir, and other highlights in the exhibition, Liberty to Imagination: Drawings from the Eveillard Gift. Held Friday, June 7, 2024.

Collection in Focus: Fran Lebowitz on the Process of Great Writing

For our Centennial, we asked some of our friends and collaborators to speak about what they love about the Morgan Library & Museum. Watch writer and iconic New Yorker Fran Lebowitz describe some of her favorite letters and manuscripts in our collection by her favorite writers.

Walton Ford: Birds and Beasts of the Studio

American artist Walton Ford and Jennifer Tonkovich, our Eugene and Clare Thaw Curator of Drawings and Prints, discuss the artist’s current exhibition Walton Ford: Birds and Beasts of the Studio. Ford established his reputation in the 1990s with his monumental watercolor paintings of wild animals inspired by true or legendary stories of dramatic encounters between humankind and nature.

Young Concert Artists: Lun Li, violin

Join the captivating violinist Lun Li in a dramatic program featuring Henry Eccles's Prelude in A minor; Nicola Matteis's Alia Fantasia; Giovanni Bononcini's Prelude in D minor; Johann Sebastian Bach's Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004; Philip Glass's Book of Longing; Béla Bartók's Sonata for solo violin; and Tessa Lark's Jig and Pop.

Held Wednesday, April 24, 2024.

Collection in Focus: Walton Ford's Passion for Drawing

For our Centennial, we asked some of our friends and collaborators to speak about what they love about the Morgan. First up, artist Walton Ford describes some of his favorites drawings in our collection and what about these works inspire him.

Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature

Curator Philip Palmer takes us through Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature and shares how the beloved children's book author rooted her fiction in the natural world.

Young Concert Artists: Risa Hokamura, violin, Albert Cano Smit, piano, Lun Li, violin, and Toby Appel, viola

Join these talented artists in a performance of Karol Szymanowski's Mythes, Op. 30 N. 3-Dryades et Pan; Eugène Ysaÿe's Sonata for solo violin No 4 in E minor, Op. 27, No. 4; Maurice Ravel's Violin Sonata No. 2 in G Major; and Antonín Dvořák's Terzetto in C Major for two violins and viola, Op. 74.

Held Wednesday, February 28, 2024.

Young Concert Artists: Ying Li, piano, Ani Kavafian, violin, and Alex Cox, cello

Watch some of the most exciting young musicians today performing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Rondo for Piano in D Major, K. 485; Frédéric Chopin's Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, Op. 20; Sergei Prokofiev's Three Selections from Ten Pieces from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 75; and Arno Babadjanian's Piano Trio in F-Sharp minor.

Held Wednesday, January 24, 2024.

Symposium: Tiepolo Drawings: Reconsiderations and Discoveries, Part 2

The symposium is devoted to the drawings of the Tiepolo family, and is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Spirit and Invention: Drawings by Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo.

Presented on January 25, 2024 by the Morgan Drawing Institute.

Symposium: Tiepolo Drawings: Reconsiderations and Discoveries, Part 1

The symposium is devoted to the drawings of the Tiepolo family, and is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Spirit and Invention: Drawings by Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo.

Presented on January 25, 2024 by the Morgan Drawing Institute.

Symposium: Tiepolo Drawings: Reconsiderations and Discoveries

The symposium is devoted to the drawings of the Tiepolo family, and is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Spirit and Invention: Drawings by Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo.

Presented on January 25, 2024 by the Morgan Drawing Institute.

Smarthistory: Moralized Bible

Collection in Focus: Joseph Mallord William Turner

Take a closer look at J.M.W. Turner’s remarkable work The Pass of St. Gotthard, near Faido with Jennifer Tonkovich, Eugene and Clare Thaw Curator of Drawings and Prints, as she shares its unique connections to art criticism.

Collection in Focus: La prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France

Sheelagh Bevan, our Andrew W. Mellon Associate Curator of Printed Books and Bindings, discusses Blaise Cendrars, born Frédéric Louis Sauser, a catalyst in some of the explosive artistic innovations of the early twentieth century.

Camerata Trajectina

The Sounds of the City as Heard by Jacob Steendam, the First Poet of New York

The early music ensemble Camerata Trajectina follows in Jacob Steendam’s (1616–1672) footsteps and presents Dutch music that once echoed off the walls of the houses of New Amsterdam.

Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality

Diane Wolfthal, David and Caroline Minter Chair Emerita in the Humanities and Professor Emerita of Art History, Rice University, and Dei Jackson, Assistant Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts here at the Morgan, discuss their current exhibition Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality.

Collection in Focus: Peter Hujar

Dive deep into the archive of the iconic photographer Peter Hujar with Olivia McCall, our Edith Gowin Curatorial Fellow of Photography.

2023 YCA Winners Concert

YCA and the Morgan co-present the winners of the 2023 Young Concert Artists Susan Wadsworth International Auditions in an afternoon of music and conversation. Each artist will perform selections from their winning audition, and engage the audience with a short interview conducted by YCA President, Daniel Kellogg.  Held on Sunday, November 12, 2023.

Spirit and Invention: Drawings by Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo

The Morgan is home to one of the world’s largest and most important collections of drawings by Giambattista Tiepolo (1696–1770) and his eldest son Domenico (1727–1804), with more than 300 representative examples of their lively invention and masterful techniques.

Morgan's Bibles: Splendor in Scripture

Jesse R. Erickson, Astor Curator of Printed Books & Bindings, and John Bidwell, Curator Emeritus, discuss the Bible as a cornerstone of religion, art, and literature in the western world.

Telling the Story of Belle da Costa Greene

To mark the 2024 centennial of its life as a public institution, the Morgan Library & Museum will present a major exhibition devoted to the life and career of its inaugural director, Belle da Costa Greene.