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Combining diverse artworks from across the Morgan’s collections and some exceptional loans, Come Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytelling explores how stories shape our world.

"The closest thing to a human being is a book. I know people think it’s a dog, but they’re wrong…When you look at manuscripts or letters and they’re written in the hand of the writer, you are closer to that writer, you’re closer to the person.” –Fran Lebowitz

Opera is primal. It's about the human voice that we are born with and how it can communicate emotion. So we have to have a way to get ideas for reinvention.

Colin B. Bailey, our Katharine J. Rayner Director and curator of Renoir Drawings, offers an insightful overview of our current exhibition.

Join novelist, poet, and MacArthur Fellowship recipient Ishmael Reed for a conversation on the empowering role of art as a vehicle for reclaiming elements of African spirituality and culture.

The Pass of St. Gotthard, near Faido

Robinson McClellan, Associate Curator of Music Manuscripts and Printed Music, discusses the importance of Robert Owen Lehman’s extraordinary collection of music manuscripts that has been an inspiration to scholars and visitors since it was placed on deposit at the Morgan Library & Museum.

Curator Philip Palmer takes us through Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature and shares how the beloved children's book author rooted her fiction in the natural world. Beatrix Potter, creator of unforgettable animal characters like Peter Rabbit, Mr.

Six months before he died in poverty and obscurity, architect and draftsman Jean‐Jacques Lequeu (1757–1826) donated one more than 800 drawings, one of the most singular and fascinating graphic oeuvres of his time, to the French Royal Library.

The Morgan Library & Museum is one of the largest and richest depositories of Rembrandt’s drawings in North America, encompassing works from every stage of his long career.