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Apri 21 through May 30, 2010One of the earliest original manuscripts of Magna Carta dating to 1217 is on view at the Morgan through May 30.
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August 15, 2017 through March 18, 2018Views of Rome and Naples is the fifth exhibition in a series drawn from the collection of oil sketches acquired by Morgan Trustee Eugene V. Thaw and his wife, Clare. Mr. Thaw is also an honorary trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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July 13 through November 4, 2012Reuniting the score and designs from Philip Glass and Robert Wilson's Einstein on the Beach, this exhibition focuses on the opera's premiere performances in 1976.
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February 10 through November 8, 2026
In his landmark 1800 treatise on landscape painting, Elements of Practical Perspective, Pierre Henri de Valenciennes lamented the difficulty of portraying the sun’s light using oil paint. An artist, he explained, cannot look at the blazing body for longer than a moment, lest they be dazzled, and even if they could, “as there is no color in nature that is luminous by itself, the painter is very limited in the means he uses to copy the light of nature. So we laugh at the vain efforts made by an artist when he wants to imitate the color of the sun.”
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December 10, 2010, through January 9, 2011The Morgan Library & Museum presents an exhibition of photographs by Massimo Listri documenting iconic European libraries that similarly use fine wood, marble, and other precious materials to create an opulent setting for books.
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June 16 through August 24, 2025As a part of the exhibition A Celebration: Acquisitions in Honor of the Morgan’s Centennial, on view through August 17, this selection highlights a group of drawings gifted to the museum by the artist Giuseppe Penone.
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September 10, 2013, through January 12, 2014The Morgan will present the first public presentation of nine revealing letters and postcards written by J. D. Salinger to Marjorie Sheard, an aspiring Canadian writer, between 1941 and 1943.
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November 6, 2009, through March 14, 2010This exhibition explores the life, work, and legacy of Jane Austen (1775–1817), regarded as one of the greatest English novelists.
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October 21, 2011, through January 29, 2012Treasures of Islamic Manuscript Painting from the Morgan marks the first time the Morgan has gathered these spectacular volumes together in a single exhibition.
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September 12, 2020 through January 31, 2021This exhibition, conceived in close consultation with the artist, looks at the relationship between Saar’s finished works and the preliminary annotated sketches she has made in small notebooks throughout her career.
