Concerts, Talks, and More

Celebrate Women’s voices in classical music with a self-guided listening tour.

Join Morgan docents as they take a close look at the life and works of Franz Kafka, including the manuscript copy of his most famous novella, The Metamorphosis.

What does it mean for Kafka’s work that the first translations were by women? Join Michelle Woods as she examines this question in a lecture on Milena Jesenská and Willa Muir, and their roles in establishing Kafka as a globally influential writer.

Enjoy a midday interlude with the Morgan’s noontime recitals. In partnership with Young Concert Artists, the series showcases a new generation of musicians.

Slow Art Day is an international event for people of all ages to look closely at an art object and discuss what you see, how you feel, and what you think.

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.

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.

Enjoy a midday interlude with the Morgan’s noontime recitals. In partnership with Young Concert Artists, the series showcases a new generation of musicians.

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.

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.