Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
Past Exhibitions
Alice: 150 Years of Wonderland
June 26 through October 12, 2015*
This exhibition will bring to light the curious history of Wonderland, presenting an engaging account of the genesis, publication, and enduring appeal of Lewis Carroll's classic tale, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Hidden Likeness: Photographer Emmet Gowin at the Morgan
May 22 through September 20, 2015
For this spellbinding exhibition—the first exploration of his career at a New York museum—Gowin has combined favorites and rarities from five decades of work with objects drawn from throughout the collections of the Morgan.
Life Lines: Portrait Drawings from Dürer to Picasso
June 12 through September 7, 2015
This exhibition presents some of the Morgan’s greatest portrait drawings from a collection of works on paper that is internationally recognized for its depth and quality.
A Certain Slant of Light: Spencer Finch at the Morgan
June 20, 2014 through August 23, 2015
American artist Spencer Finch (b. 1962) will unveil a new, site-specific, large-scale installation at the Morgan inspired by its great collection of medieval Books of Hours.
Embracing Modernism: Ten Years of Drawings Acquisitions
February 13 through May 25, 2015
This exhibition will include more than ninety drawings created between 1900 and 2013 by artists from Matisse, Mondrian, and Schiele to Pollock, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Twombly, and—more recently—Kippenberger and Dumas.
From May 5 to May 17 the Morgan Library & Museum will hold a special pop-up exhibition celebrating the acquisition of several unique books by authors connected to Britain’s Man Booker Prize.
Piranesi and the Temples of Paestum: Drawings from Sir John Soane’s Museum
January 23 through May 17, 2015
In 1777, the great Italian draftsman, etcher and antiquarian Giovanni Battista Piranesi visited the haunting and majestic archaeological site of Paestum on the Gulf of Salerno south of Naples and produced a series of monumental drawings. Preserved at Sir John Soane’s Museum in London, the drawings have only recently been restored and will be shown in the United States for the first time.
