Concerts, Talks, and More

Centennial Conversations | Maria Popova & Marie Howe: How to Be a Living Poem

A conversation with Maria Popova and poet Marie Howe, lensed through the original manuscripts of William Blake's Auguries of Innocence and Walt Whitman's "O Captain, My Captain!"

Tuesday, October 15, 2024, 6:30–7:30 PM
Location: 
Gilder Lehrman Hall
Tickets: 
Choose your level of support for this program: $10/$20/$30

Symposium | Belle da Costa Greene

Complementing the opening of the exhibition Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy, this one-day scholarly symposium will bring together experts working on Belle Greene and/or the fields relevant to our understanding of her life and career, including African American history and literature, the history of museums and libraries, Medieval studies, art history, feminist bibliography, and book history.

Friday, October 25, 2024, 9 AM–5:30 PM
Category: 
Workshops
Location: 
Gilder Lehrman Hall
Tickets: 
In person: $40; $35 for Morgan Members; $10 for students with a valid ID (limited)
Livestream Tickets: 
$23.50; $17.50 for Morgan Members

Centennial Conversations | Maria Popova & Debbie Millman: Handwriting and the Evolving Self

A conversation with Maria Popova and artist, author, and podcaster Debbie Millman, lensed through dramatically different samples of Emily Dickinson’s handwriting from different periods of her life.

Friday, November 1, 2024, 6:30–7:30 PM
Location: 
Gilder Lehrman Hall
Tickets: 
Choose your level of support for this program: $10/$20/$30

College Night

Current undergraduate and graduate students are invited to a free after-hours event featuring gallery activities, behind-the-scenes experiences, sketching, live music, and more!

Thursday, November 7, 2024, 5:30–8 PM
Category: 
Talks and Tours

Centennial Conversations | Maria Popova & Sophie Blackall: Children’s Books as Philosophy for Living

A conversation with Maria Popova and Caldecott-winning children’s book artist and author Sophie Blackall, lensed through Antoine de Saint- Exupéry's original watercolors for The Little Prince and Lewis Carroll’s diary entry from the day he first told the story of Wonderland to the real-life Alice.

Tuesday, November 12, 2024, 6:30–7:30 PM
Location: 
Gilder Lehrman Hall
Tickets: 
Choose your level of support for this program: $10/$20/$30

Centennial Conversations | Maria Popova & Paola Prestini: Creativity in the Margins of Culture

A conversation with Maria Popova and composer Paola Prestini, lensed through the music manuscripts of Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn.

Friday, December 6, 2024, 6:30–7:30 PM
Location: 
Gilder Lehrman Hall
Tickets: 
Choose your level of support for this program: $10/$20/$30

Winter Family Fair

Celebrate the holiday season with the Morgan’s annual display of the original manuscript of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol and enjoy artmaking and activities for all ages themed to our current exhibitions.

Saturday, December 14, 2024, 2–4 PM
Category: 
Family Programs
Location: 
Gilder Lehrman Hall
J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library

Online Program | Life and Legacy of Belle da Costa Greene Short Course

Join curators of the Morgan Library & Museum’s exhibition, Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy (on view October 25, 2024 through May 4, 2025), to explore Belle da Costa Greene’s life and legacy through a three-session online course.

Wednesdays, January 15, 29, February 12, 2025, 4–5 PM
Category: 
Workshops
Location: 
Zoom
Series tickets: 
Three-session package: $65; $50 for Morgan Members
Tickets: 
Individual sessions: $25; $20 for Morgan Members

Lecture | "Daylight at the Exit": Women Translating Kafka

What does it mean for Kafka’s work that the first translations were by women? Join Michelle Woods as she examines this question in a lecture on Milena Jesenská and Willa Muir, and their roles in establishing Kafka as a globally influential writer. For years, both women have been misread and misrepresented: one idealized as Kafka’s lover, the other faulted for the limitations of Kafka’s translations. Woods challenges these characterizations, recentering the lives of these brilliant women in the story of Kafka and discussing their feminist impact on modern perceptions of his works.

Friday, March 14, 2025, 6–7 PM
Category: 
Talks and Tours
Location: 
Gilder Lehrman Hall

Concert | Young Concert Artists on Tour: Risa Hokamura, violin; Chaeyoung Park, piano; Alexander Cox, cello; Anthony Trionfo, flute; Hsin-Yun Huang, viola

Enjoy a midday interlude with the Morgan’s noontime recitals. In partnership with Young Concert Artists, the series showcases a new generation of musicians.

Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 12–1 PM
Category: 
Concerts
Location: 
Gilder Lehrman Hall
Tickets: 
$25: $20 for Morgan Members

Please call (212) 685-0008 ext. 560 or e-mail tickets@themorgan.org for information.