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October 25, 2019 through February 2, 2020

Handwriting works magic: it transports us back to defining moments in history, creativity, and everyday life and connects us intimately with the people who marked the page.

Learn more about the large-scale preparatory sketch for one of Renoir’s most significant paintings. Dr. Colin B. Bailey, the Katharine J.

In conjunction with the exhibition Entrance to the Mind: Drawings by George Condo in the Morgan Library & Museum, artist George Condo discusses the role of drawing in his practice and his interest in the art of the past with Isabelle Dervaux, Acquavella Cura

Recorded in Gilder Lehrman Hall, the exuberant pianist Maxim Lando performs the rarely heard Jean Sibelius Piano Sonata in F Major, Op. 12 and Aram Khachaturian's Piano Sonata in E-flat Major. Held Tuesday, February 23, 2021.

Niklaus Manuel Güdel

Curator Roger Wieck explores the images and iconography in the Prayer Book of Claude de France, discussing selected illustrations in depth.

These newly published letters chronicle the forty year friendship between the playwritght Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin, founder of New Directions.

Sal Robinson, our Lucy Ricciardi Assistant Curator of Literary and Historical Manuscripts, discusses the artist Ashley Bryan and his 2015 book Sail Away, in which Bryan paired poems by Langston Hughes on the subject of water—oceans, seas, rivers, and rainstorms—

In celebration of Pride, the Morgan presents two lectures on queer artists Rick Barton and Ray Johnson:

Talk 1
The Black Cat and the San Francisco Demi-monde, 1930s–60s
Gary Kamiya