Virtual Tour: Highlights of the Collection
Join us for a session of close looking at what J. Pierpont Morgan might have described as “A few of his favorite things.”
Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
Join us for a session of close looking at what J. Pierpont Morgan might have described as “A few of his favorite things.”
The symposium is devoted to the drawings of the artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) and takes place in conjunction with the exhibition Sublime Ideas: Drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi on view at the Morgan from March 10 through June 4, 2023 and is presented by the Morgan Drawing Institute.
Enjoy a family tour of the historic library followed by a live picture book storytime. In June we will explore springtime and the Garden at the Morgan. The tour will include the Morgan Garden, weather permitting.
New Parnassus
Four contemporary composers take inspiration from the sketches of Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 11, Op. 95, in F minor (1810) and compose one movement each, resulting in a completely new four-movement quartet
Jennifer Mundy, Thaw Senior Fellow and former Head of Art Historical Research, Tate, London
Jennifer Tonkovich, Eugene and Clare Thaw Curator, Drawings and Prints
Join us for an evening celebrating the Lenape traditionalist Nora Thompson Dean, who dedicated her life to preserving Lenape culture and language, with two of the founders of the Lenape Center, Joe Baker and Hadrien Coumans.
Gallery Talk: Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist’s Studio
Isabelle Dervaux, Acquavella Curator and Head of Department, Modern & Contemporary Drawings
Colin B. Bailey, Director of the Morgan Library & Museum
Director Abel Gance, 1923 (2008 Flicker Alley reconstruction with music and English intertitles)
273 minutes, with an intermission
Simon Levenson, artist and instructor, National Arts Club and Drawing America
Sal Robinson, Lucy Ricciardi Assistant Curator of Literary and Historical Manuscripts
Niklaus Manuel Güdel
Dr. Gail Levin, Distinguished Professor of Art History, American Studies, and Women’s Studies at The Graduate Center and Baruch College of the City University of New York.
Please call (212) 685-0008 ext. 560 or e-mail tickets@themorgan.org for information.