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It’s not just a façade! The façade of our J. Pierpont Morgan Library building uses a complex ancient Greek building technique that enables the stone to have no visible mortar. The architects, McKim, Mead & White, adapted this technique to account for the variable climate in New York city.

In his fiction Henry James wrote about artists, collectors, and galleries. He was fascinated by painters and paintings and his friends and associates included John La Farge, John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, Frank Duveneck and William Wetmore Story.

A wonderful lineup of leading musicians including members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and National Symphony Orchestra perform Igor Stravinsky's iconic work L’Histoire du soldat, Wynton Marsalis' updated parable A Fiddler's Tale

Scott Joplin—the "King of Ragtime"—played a critical role in the spread of the American music phenomenon not only through his wildly popular compositions, but also through his dedication to capturing these works on paper for posterity.

Young Concert Artists 

David Freedberg

Join Dr. Francesca Cappelletti, esteemed Caravaggio scholar, Director of the Borghese Gallery, and co-curator of Caravaggio 2025 at Palazzo Barberini in Rome, for a lecture in connection with the Morgan’s current exhibition, Caravaggio’s “Boy with a Basket of Fruit” in Focus.

On March 15, 1874, a group of artists later called the Impressionists opened an independent exhibition in a gallery in the center of Paris. In the 150 years that followed, their works have become some of the most widely recognized and popular in the world.

Director's Talk with Colin B. Bailey