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  • EXCEPTIONAL GROUP OF ILLUMINATED ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPTS AND HANDWRITTEN QUR’ANS TO BE SHOWN AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM

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    The Morgan Library & Museum is internationally acclaimed for its collection of medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts, but it may come as a surprise that it also possesses a number of important Islamic manuscripts dating from the late middle ages to the nineteenth century.
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  • THE THAW CONSERVATION CENTER OPENS

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    The Thaw Conservation Center at the Morgan Library, a world-class laboratory for the conservation of works on paper—drawings and literary, historical, and music manuscripts—as well as a place for conservation studies, opened in February 2002.
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  • THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM TO EXHIBIT EXTRAORDINARY SELECTION OF RARE BOOKBINDINGS

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    Protecting the Word: Bookbindings of the Morgan, on view from December 5, 2008, through March 29, 2009, presents a selection of outstanding works from the collection.
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  • THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM PRESENTS EXHIBITION FOCUSING ON THE CONTROVERSIAL SHAKESPEARE PORTRAIT QUESTION

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    When the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-Upon- Avon unveiled a previously unidentified portrait with strong claims to be the only surviving contemporary likeness of William Shakespeare (1564–1616), it created an international stir.
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  • THE MORGAN PRESENTS SPECIAL, LIMITED-RUN EXHIBITION OF ORIGINAL DRAWINGS FROM CHILDREN'S CLASSIC WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE BY MAURICE SENDAK

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    The Morgan Library & Museum will present a special exhibition of original drawings and manuscript pages from the classic children's book Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (b. 1928) from October 6 to November 1, 2009.
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  • MAJOR GIFT OF MASTER DRAWINGS MADE TO THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM BY EUGENE AND CLARE THAW

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    The Morgan Library & Museum announced today that noted collector and trustee Eugene V. Thaw and his wife, Clare, have given the institution an extraordinary selection of fourteen master drawings, including works by Rembrandt, Turner, Delacroix, van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, and Pollock.
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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 MORGAN ANNOUNCES THE APPOINTMENT OF ROGER S. WIECK TO HEAD ITS RENOWNED DEPARTMENT OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPTS

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    The Morgan Library & Museum today announced the appointment of Roger S. Wieck to head one of the institution’s core curatorial areas, its internationally recognized Department of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts.
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  • MORGAN LIBRARY SPRING 2006 REOPENING ONLY ONE YEAR OUT PUBLIC TO REDISCOVER ONE OF NEW YORK CITY'S GREATEST TREASURES

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    Elegant Design by Pritzker Prize–Winning Architect Renzo Piano Expands, Renovates, and Fully Integrates Morgan Campus New and Enhanced Galleries Double Exhibition Space Inaugural-Year Exhibitions to Feature Jewels of the Collection
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