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To mark the 2024 centenary of its life as a public institution, the Morgan Library & Museum presents a major exhibition devoted to the life and career of its inaugural director, Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950). Widely recognized as an authority on illuminated manuscripts and deeply respected as a cultural heritage executive, Greene was one of the most prominent librarians in American history.

A conversation with Maria Popova and Caldecott-winning children’s book artist and author Sophie Blackall, lensed through Antoine de Saint- Exupéry's original watercolors for The Little Prince and Lewis Carroll’s diary entry from the day he first told the story of Wonderland to the real-life Alice. Held Tuesday, November 12, 2024.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.