Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
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In conjunction with the exhibition Franz Kafka, playwright and Yiddish theater scholar Nahma Sandrow will present an intimate lecture in J. Pierpont Morgan’s historic library on the cultural significance of Yiddish theater in pre-war Europe.
Join a docent-led session of close looking at what J. Pierpont Morgan might have described as “A few of his favorite things.”
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Join art historian Judy Sund for an insightful lecture on Vincent van Gogh.
This Earth Day, Annette and Oscar de la Renta Assistant Curator of Drawings and Prints Sarah W. Mallory will speak about the installation Entering the Oil Sketch and explore how artists have shaped the ways in which we see and understand environmental phenomena such as natural disasters, biodiversity, and pollution.
Join Joshua O’Driscoll, Associate Curator of Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts and curator of The Book of Marvels: Imagining the Medieval World, and scholars Asa S. Mittman and Travis Zadeh for a moderated discussion on the imagining of foreign places and cultures in the pre-modern world.
Enjoy a midday interlude with the Morgan’s noontime recitals. In partnership with Young Concert Artists, the series showcases a new generation of musicians.
Leap off the page with our family program for young readers. Enjoy a family tour of the exhibition The Book of Marvels: Imagining the Medieval World followed by a picture book storytime.
Workshop participants will then use traditional tools to make pigments, mix watercolor paints, learn how to apply 22-karat gold leaf, and craft their own medieval-inspired masterpiece.
Experiment with Medieval imagery in this collage workshop inspired by the manuscript pages on view in the installation Cut and Paste: Reframing Medieval Art.
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Join writers, poets, artists, designers, and performers for engaging and thought provoking talks and discussions in the galleries.
Join performer, educator, and storyteller Tom Lee for a twenty-minute interactive storytelling experience in the historic library.
For the annual Kenneth A. Lohf Poetry Reading, Lerner will read from his book, The Lights—a constellation of verse and prose, voice mails and vignettes, songs and felt silences, that brings the personal and the collective into startling relation.
Explore images and themes in the exhibition Arresting Beauty: Julia Margaret Cameron with Associate Curator of Photography, Allison Pappas.
The Morgan After Hours series celebrates an evening of live music, artmaking, drinks, art, and literature in all of the Morgan’s gilded age glamour.
Join writers, poets, artists, designers, and performers for engaging and thought provoking talks and discussions in the galleries.
Celebrate the spring season at the Morgan! Explore exhibitions and the Morgan Garden with a variety of hands-on activities. Fun for the whole family!
Enjoy a family tour of the exhibition A Lively Mind: Jane Austen at 250 followed by a picture book storytime.
Join writers, poets, artists, designers, and performers for engaging and thought provoking talks and discussions in the galleries. Each presenter approaches objects on view through their unique lens and perspective.
On Friday July 11, join visual artist Amy Cutler in the exhibition A Celebration: Acquisitions in Honor of the Morgan’s Centennial.
In this one-day workshop, learn the photographic techniques used by Julia Margaret Cameron in the 19th century.
Explore innovative ways to bring literature to life in the classroom.
Gather in J. Pierpont Morgan’s historic library for dramatic readings and discussion of Jane Austen’s short novel, Lady Susan (128 pages).
Enjoy a family tour of the exhibition A Lively Mind: Jane Austen at 250 followed by a picture book storytime.
Complementing the Morgan Library & Museum’s exhibition, A Lively Mind: Jane Austen at 250, this three-part online course hosted in partnership with 92nd Street Y Roundtable explores Austen’s authorship and her gradual rise to international fame.
Join the Morgan Library & Museum for a special 30th anniversary screening of Clueless (1995), starring Alicia Silverstone, Paul Rudd, Stacey Dash, and Brittany Murphy, a funny and clever adaptation of Jane Austen’s 1815 novel Emma.
Learn to speak the Victorian language of flowers in this hands-on workshop with horticulturist and author Marta McDowell.
Gather in J. Pierpont Morgan’s historic library for performance and discussion of Virginia Woolf’s play, Freshwater: A Comedy (96 pages), about her great-aunt, photographer Julia Margaret Cameron.
Celebrate the closing of the exhibition A Lively Mind: Jane Austen at 250 with a wide-ranging roundtable discussion on Austen’s fashion, letters, manuscripts, family, and posthumous recognition.
Please call (212) 685-0008 ext. 560 or e-mail tickets@themorgan.org for information.