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Complementing the opening of the exhibition Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy, this one-day scholarly symposium will bring together experts working on Belle Greene and/or the fields relevant to our understanding of her life and career, including African American history and lit

To mark the 2024 centenary of its life as a public institution, the Morgan Library & Museum presents a major exhibition devoted to the life and career of its inaugural director, Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950).

Take a closer look at this 1000 year old Spanish illumination with Josh O’Driscoll, Assistant Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts as he shares the incredible story.

Meredith Martin

Fran Lebowitz is the best-selling author of Metropolitan Life, Social Studies, The Fran Lebowitz Reader, and is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. Lebowitz has made a number of appearances as Judge Janice Goldberg on the television drama Law & Order, and has appe

The most famous achievement of Annibale Carracci (1560–1609) is his celebrated series of frescoes in the Palazzo Farnese in Rome (1596–1604).

A conversation with Maria Popova and poet Marie Howe, lensed through the original manuscripts of William Blake's Auguries of Innocence and Walt Whitman's "O Captain, My Captain!"

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” With these words the Oxford professor J.R.R. Tolkien ignited a fervid spark in generations of readers.

A widely connected pioneer of Pop and mail art, Ray Johnson (1927–1995) was described as “New York’s most famous unknown artist.” Best known for his multimedia collages, he stopped exhibiting in 1991, but his output did not diminish.

Take a closer look at this 900 year old English manuscript with Dei Jackson, Assistant Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts as she tells the story of St. Edmund.