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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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  • 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 ANNOUNCES THAT JOSHUA O’DRISCOLL, MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPTS CURATOR, IS THE RECIPIENT OF THE PRESTIGIOUS PAUL CLEMEN PRIZE

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    The Morgan Library & Museum announced that Joshua O’Driscoll, assistant curator in the department of Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts, has received the prestigious Paul Clemen Prize.
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  • THE MORGAN DISPLAYS RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE NATIONAL ANTHEM

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    The Morgan Library & Museum has put on display a rare first edition of “The Star Spangled Banner,” marking the 200th anniversary in 2014 of the origination of the famous anthem.
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  • GIOVANNI BELLINI’S FAMED PAINTING OF THE DEAD CHRIST FROM THE MUSEO DELLA CITTÀ IN RIMINI, ITALY, MAKES U.S. DEBUT AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM

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    From January 13 through April 19, 2026, the Morgan Library & Museum will display the painting Pietà (also known as Dead Christ Supported by Angels) (ca. 1470) by Giovanni Bellini (1424/26–1516), bringing this early Renaissance masterpiece to the United States for the first time.

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  • THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM SHOWCASES DRAWINGS BY REDISCOVERED BEAT-ERA ARTIST RICK BARTON

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    The Morgan Library & Museum presents Writing a Chrysanthemum: The Drawings of Rick Barton, opening June 10 and running through September 11, 2022.
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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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  • EARLIEST COLOR ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPT OF THE CHRISTMAS POEM “A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS” ENTERS THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM COLLECTION

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    The Morgan Library & Museum has acquired the earliest manuscript with color illustrations of the poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas”( more famously known as “The Night Before Christmas”) by Clement Clarke Moore.
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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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  • GETTY GRANT PROGRAM AWARDS FUNDS TO PRINCETON UNIVERSITY'S INDEX OF CHRISTIAN ART FOR CATALOGING OF MORGAN LIBRARY MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS

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    Princeton, NJ; New York, NY. The Getty Grant Program, a part of the J. Paul Getty Trust that funds a diverse range of projects, including research in the history of art and related fields, has recently awarded a $250,000 grant to Princeton University's Index of Christian Art to support the initial phase of a project to create an on-line, digitized, searchable catalog of the medieval manuscripts in the collection of The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.
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