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  • CY TWOMBLY’S MONUMENTAL TREATISE ON THE VEIL (SECOND VERSION) AND RELATED DRAWINGS TO BE EXHIBITED AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM

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    Beginning September 26, Treatise on the Veil and a selection of related drawings will go on view at the Morgan Library & Museum, in a collaboration with Houston’s Menil Collection, which owns the works and organized the exhibition. The show will run through January 25, 2015.
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  • THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM PRESENTS VICTORIAN BESTSELLERS

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    In a fascinating exhibition entitled Victorian Bestsellers, The Morgan Library & Museum explores the rise of this cultural phenomenon through original manuscripts, first editions, cheap trade publications, rare advertising posters, and other materials drawn largely from the Morgan's renowned literary collections.
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  • ACCLAIMED DIRECTOR JAMES IVORY DONATES HIS COLLECTION OF SCRIPTS, NOTEBOOKS, AND CORRESPONDENCE TO THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM

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    Highlights from Merchant Ivory Productions will be on view at the Morgan
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  • THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM TO EXHIBIT THE FINAL WORKS OF THE GREAT ITALIAN DRAFTSMAN AND CLASSICIST GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI

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    In 1777, the great Italian draftsman and printmaker Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) visited the haunting and majestic archaeological site of Paestum on the Gulf of Salerno, about 60 miles south of Naples
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  • THE MORGAN PRESENTS THE SATIRICAL DRAWINGS OF CELEBRATED BRITISH ARTIST WILLIAM HOGARTH

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    The Morgan Library & Museum announces a new exhibition of satirical drawings and prints by renowned artist William Hogarth (1697–1764).
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  • MAJOR SURVEY OF EDGAR ALLAN POE’S LITERARY CAREER TO BE HELD AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM 

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    More than one hundred works explore Poe's fiction, poetry, literary criticism, and influence on diverse writers.
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  • HOMELAND FOUNDATION, INC. AWARDS $1 MILLION GRANT TO CATALOGUE AND DIGITIZE MORGAN LIBRARY'S MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPTS

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    The Morgan Library has received a $1-million grant from the Homeland Foundation, Inc. for a project under way with Princeton University's Index of Christian Art to catalogue and digitize the Library's entire collection of medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts. These manuscripts, which represent a thousand years of Western iconography, will be available for the first time in Internet-accessible databases.
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  • THE MORGAN PRESENTS THE FIRST FULL-SCALE RETROSPECTIVE OF THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF PETER HUJAR

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    Peter Hujar: Speed of Life—on view at the Morgan from January 26 through May 20—presents one hundred and forty photographs by this enormously important and influential artist.
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  • THE MORGAN TO EXHIBIT JOSEF ALBERS’S PAINTINGS ON PAPER, INCLUDING RARELY-SEEN STUDIES FOR HIS FAMOUS HOMAGE TO THE SQUARE SERIES

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    For the first time in New York, The Morgan Library & Museum will present an exhibition entirely devoted to this aspect of the artist's work. Josef Albers in America: Painting on Paper, on view from July 20 to October 14, features approximately eighty such studies spanning the four decades after the artist left Nazi Germany and immigrated to the United States.
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  • THE MORGAN JOINS THE GOOGLE ART PROJECT TO OFFER UNPARALLELED VIEWS OF ITS FAMED McKIM BUILDING

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    The collaboration allows for the first virtual tour of the museum's landmark building and its renowned contents.
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