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  • THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM RECEIVES ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT OF THE PHILIP GLASS OPERATIC MASTERPIECE EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH

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    In 1976 composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson redefined opera with the debut in Avignon, France, of Einstein on the Beach. The nearly five-hour, non-narrative work broke a host of operatic conventions and would become the most celebrated of the many collaborations between these two giants of the musical and theatrical stage.
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  • EIGHTY OUTSTANDING NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH DRAWINGS FROM THE LOUVRE TO GO ON VIEW FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE U.S. AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM 

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    This fall The Morgan Library & Museum will host an exhibition of eighty of the Musée du Louvre's finest drawings by artists working in France from the onset of the Revolution in 1789 through the establishment of the Second Empire in 1852.
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  • THE CENTRAL ROLE OF THE EUCHARIST IN THE RELIGIOUS AND CIVIC LIFE OF THE MIDDLE AGES IS EXPLORED IN A NEW EXHIBITION AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM

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    Illuminating Faith: The Eucharist in Medieval Life and Art, on view May 17–September 15, 2013, explores how artists of the period depicted the celebration of the sacrament and its powerful hold on society in more than sixty-five exquisitely illuminated manuscripts drawn from the Morgan's renowned collections.
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  • A SUMMER EXHIBITION AT THE MORGAN SHOWCASES PHOTOGRAPHERS PORTRAYING—AND INVENTING—THE GROUP

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    The Morgan Library & Museum presents a new exhibition about photography’s unique capacity to represent the bonds that unite people.
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  • PICTURING NATURAL HISTORY: FLORA AND FAUNA IN DRAWINGS, MANUSCRIPTS, AND PRINTED BOOKS OPENS FEBRUARY 12
    FINAL EXHIBITION BEFORE MORGAN CLOSURE

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    The wonder and beauty of nature, richly documented for over nearly a thousand years, is the subject of Picturing Natural History: Flora and Fauna in Drawings, Manuscripts, and Printed Books, the Morgan Library's first exhibition devoted to natural history illustration. Picturing Natural History is the last major exhibition before the Morgan closes to the public for approximately two years to undergo an extensive expansion project.
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  • INSTALLATION OF WORKS BY FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN, INCLUDING A RECENTLY DISCOVERED WALTZ, ON VIEW AT THE MORGAN FROM MAY 13 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 14, 2025

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    The Morgan Library & Museum will present an installation of works by Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) in the Rotunda of J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library from May 13 through September 14, 2025.

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  • THE MORGAN’S LINDAU GOSPELS—THE MUSEUM’S MOST SPECTACULAR JEWELED MANUSCRIPT—RECEIVES PUBLIC SHOWING THROUGH MAY 1

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    The Lindau Gospels, one of the great masterpieces from the Morgan Library & Museum’s renowned collection of illuminated manuscripts, is being shown for a limited time through May 1 under new lighting conditions in the library of the institution’s landmark 1906 McKim building.
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  • POET, PAINTER, ENGRAVER, CREATOR OF ILLUMINATED BOOKS—NEW MORGAN EXHIBITION PRESENTS THE GENIUS OF WILLIAM BLAKE

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    Many of Blake's most spectacular watercolors, prints, and illuminated books of poetry will be on view from September 11, 2009, to January 3, 2010.
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  • THE HANDWRITING OF OVER 100 MAJOR ARTISTS, AUTHORS, COMPOSERS, AND HISTORICAL FIGURES IS SHOWCASED IN A NEW EXHIBITION AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM

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    Show Features Letters and Manuscripts in the Hands of van Gogh, Mozart, Dickinson, Einstein, Proust, and Borges
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  • THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM RECEIVES EXCELLENCE IN PRESERVATION AWARD FROM THE PRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK

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    The Morgan Library & Museum announced today that the 2010 restoration of its original library, popularly known as the McKim building, has been honored with an award for Excellence in Historic Preservation from the Preservation League of New York State.
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