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SURREALISM AND THE ART OF DRAWING IS THE SUBJECT OF A MAJOR EXHIBITION AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM
Released December 14, 2012
The show will include more than 165 works on paper by 70 artists from 15 countries,
offering important new understanding of surrealism’s emergence, evolution, and worldwide
influence.
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THE MORGAN CELEBRATES THE HOLIDAYS
Released October 19, 2012
Original manuscript of a Christmas Carol, Holiday Americana, public programs, and special shopping hoursOriginal manuscript of a Christmas Carol, Holiday Americana, public programs, and special shopping hours.
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ROSSO FIORENTINO'S CAPTIVATING HOLY FAMILY IS THE CENTERPIECE OF NEW EXHIBITION AT THE MORGAN ON FLORENTINE MANNERISM
Released October 19, 2012
The emergence of Mannerism in Florentine Renaissance art as exemplified by the brilliant painter Rosso Fiorentino is the subject of a new exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum, opening on November 16, 2012.
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THE MORGAN EXPLORES THE LIFE AND WORK OF LEGENDARY AUTHOR BEATRIX POTTER THROUGH HER RARELY EXHIBITED PICTURE LETTERS
Released November 1, 2012
On view until January 27, 2013, Beatrix Potter: The Picture Letters brings together for the first time twenty-two letters from important American private holdings as well as from three major institutional collections: the Morgan, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and the Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton University.
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THE MORGAN HOSTS MAJOR EXHIBITION OF MASTER DRAWINGS FROM MUNICH'S FAMED STAATLICHE GRAPHISCHE SAMMLUNG
Released August 25, 2012
On view October 12, 2012 through January 6, 2013, Dürer to de Kooning: 100 Master Drawings from Munich marks the first time such a comprehensive and prestigious selection of works has been lent to a single exhibition.
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THE MORGAN TO EXHIBIT JOSEF ALBERS'S PAINTINGS ON PAPER, INCLUDING RARELY-SEEN STUDIES FOR HIS FAMOUS HOMAGE TO THE SQUARE SERIES
Released June 21, 2012
For the first time in New York, The Morgan Library & Museum will present an exhibition entirely devoted to this aspect of the artist's work. Josef Albers in America: Painting on Paper, on view from July 20 to October 14, features approximately eighty such studies spanning the four decades after the artist left Nazi Germany and immigrated to the United States.
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THE MORGAN TO EXHIBIT THE MUSICAL SCORE AND PRODUCTION STORYBOARDS FOR THE GROUND-BREAKING OPERA, EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH
Released June 14, 2012
Beginning on July 13, The Morgan Library & Museum will exhibit for the first time Glass's autograph score for Einstein on the Beach as well as Wilson's production storyboards totaling more than one hundred designs.
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THE MORGAN'S ANNUAL SUMMER DISPLAY OF GREAT AMERICANA TO INCLUDE NOAH WEBSTER'S FIRST DICTIONARY AND A FRAGMENT OF WASHINGTON'S 1789 INAUGURAL ADDRESS DRAFT
Released June 4, 2012
The Morgan Library & Museum will open its vault again this summer for an exhibition of twenty-nine exceptional items from its permanent collections, including its noted holdings of important Americana.
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THREE LARGE-SCALE SCULPTURES BY ELLSWORTH KELLY TO GO ON VIEW BEGINNING JUNE 19 AT
THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM
Released June 1, 2012
Beginning June 19, The Morgan Library & Museum will place on view three of Mr. Kelly's sculptures—a bronze piece, one in mahogany, and the other in redwood—in the museum's multi-storied, glass-enclosed Gilbert Court.
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THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM AND THE CHURCHILL ARCHIVES CENTRE ANNOUNCE THE LAUNCH OF DISCOVERCHURCHILL.ORG
Released April 17, 2012
2012—The Morgan Library & Museum and the Churchill Archives Centre announced today the launch of DiscoverChurchill.org, a website developed in conjunction with the upcoming exhibition Churchill: The Power of Words, on view at the Morgan beginning June 8.
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THE MORGAN TO HOLD FIRST EXHIBITION OF ITS CELEBRATED COLLECTION OF FIFTEENTH- AND SIXTEENTH-CENTURY VENETIAN DRAWINGS
Released April 17, 2012
The first exhibition to focus on the Morgan's outstanding collection of drawings created during this important era in the history of the great port city, Renaissance Venice: Drawings from the Morgan features work by masters such as Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, and Carpaccio.
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NEW EXHIBITION AT THE MORGAN EXPLORES THE BRILLIANCE OF WINSTON CHURCHILL'S WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Released March 27, 2012
Churchill: The Power of Words, on view from June 8 through September 23, 2012 at The Morgan Library & Museum, brings to life the man behind the words through some sixty-five documents, artifacts, and recordings, ranging from edited typescripts of his speeches to his Nobel Medal and Citation to excerpts from his broadcasts made during the London blitz.
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THE MORGAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM NAMES ITS FIRST CURATOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Released March 23, 2012
The Morgan Library & Museum announced today the appointment of Joel Smith as the first curator of photography in the institution's history.
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ONLY SURVIVING PORTION OF THE SCARLET LETTER MANUSCRIPT, AN ILLUSTRATED RECEIPT OF PICASSO'S, 15th-CENTURY TAROT CARDS, AND ARE AMONG EXCEPTIONAL OBJECTS ON VIEW AT THE MORGAN BEGINNING FEBRUARY 14
Released February 13, 2012
The Morgan Library & Museum will exhibit nearly thirty extraordinary works from its extensive collections of printed books, illuminated manuscripts, music, and literary and historical manuscripts.
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NEW MORGAN EXHIBITION EXPLORES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ANIMALS AND THE ARTISTIC IMAGINATION
Released February 5, 2012
Beginning March 2, The Morgan Library & Museum will explore the representation of animals—as symbols, muses, moral teachers, talking creatures, and beloved companions—in eighty works of art
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THE MORGAN TO PRESENT MORE THAN NINETY DRAWINGS BY REMBRANDT AND OTHER IMPORTANT DUTCH ARTISTS THIS WINTER
Released December 6, 2011
The Morgan Library & Museum presents over ninety drawings by some of the preeminent artists of the period—among them Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn and his followers Ferdinand Bol and Gerbrand van den Eeckhout; Abraham Bloemaert; Aelbert Cuyp; and Jan van Goyen—in an exhibition titled Rembrandt's World: Dutch Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection, on view from January 20 through April 29, 2012.
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THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM TO HOLD FIRST RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION OF DRAWINGS
BY DAN FLAVIN
Released December 5, 2011
Now, for the first time, the central role that drawing played in Flavin's art will be explored in a major exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum, opening on February 17, 2012.
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