Pakistani American artist Shahzia Sikander is internationally celebrated for bringing Indo-Persian manuscript-painting traditions into dialogue with contemporary art practice.
Tradition, Innovation, and Response: Stage Designs from the Morgan’s Collection
June 1, 2021 through September 12, 2021
Designing a set for the theater stage presents a unique challenge: How does the artist visually transport live performers into the fictional world of the performance?
Architecture, Theater, and Fantasy: Bibiena Drawings from the Jules Fisher Collection
May 28 through September 12, 2021
This exhibition is the first in the United States in over thirty years to celebrate these talented draftsmen and marks the promised gift to the Morgan of a group of Bibiena drawings from the collection of Jules Fisher, the Tony-winning lighting designer.
The oil sketches displayed here engage with a range of Sublime effects, from the impressive vastness of a mountain range and the thrill of rushing water to the terror of a raging storm.
The Morgan Book Project, offered free of charge, is an annual extended learning program for NYC students in grades 3–12 in which they produce their own handmade accordion books.
Marking the two-hundredth anniversary of his death, this exhibition considers the Morgan’s Keats collection through the lens of the library’s first director, Belle da Costa Greene.
Conversations in Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection
February 19, 2021 through June 6, 2021
This exhibition celebrates the remarkable collection of drawings assembled by the collecting couple Richard Gray, one of America’s foremost art dealers, and art historian Mary L. Gray.
