THE MORGAN EXPLORES THE LIFE AND WORK OF LEGENDARY AUTHOR BEATRIX POTTER THROUGH HER RARELY EXHIBITED PICTURE LETTERS
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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.
NEW EXHIBITION AT THE MORGAN EXPLORES THE BRILLIANCE OF WINSTON CHURCHILL’S WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
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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.
THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM AND THE CHURCHILL ARCHIVES CENTRE ANNOUNCE THE LAUNCH OF DISCOVERCHURCHILL.ORG
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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.
SURREALISM AND THE ART OF DRAWING IS THE SUBJECT OF A MAJOR EXHIBITION AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM
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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.
THE MORGAN HOSTS MAJOR EXHIBITION OF MASTER DRAWINGS FROM MUNICH’S FAMED STAATLICHE GRAPHISCHE SAMMLUNG
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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.
THE MORGAN TO EXHIBIT THE MUSICAL SCORE AND PRODUCTION STORYBOARDS FOR THE GROUND-BREAKING OPERA, EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH
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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.
THREE LARGE-SCALE SCULPTURES BY ELLSWORTH KELLY TO GO ON VIEW BEGINNING JUNE 19 AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM
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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.
ROSSO FIORENTINO’S CAPTIVATING HOLY FAMILY IS THE CENTERPIECE OF NEW EXHIBITION AT THE MORGAN ON FLORENTINE MANNERISM
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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.
NEW MORGAN EXHIBITION EXPLORES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ANIMALS AND THE ARTISTIC IMAGINATION
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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.