Search

Renowned for his beloved and acclaimed children’s books, Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) was also an avid music and opera lover. In the late 1970s, he embarked on a successful second career as a designer of sets and costumes for the stage.

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.

To celebrate the exhibition Van Eyck to Mondrian: 300 Years of Collecting in Dresden, join distinguished cellist and director of the Dresden Music Festival Jan Vogler, and accomplished violinist Mira Wang, in highlights of a concert featuring Alessandro Rolla's Duo for violin and cello i

Ann Percy, The Mainwaring Curator of Drawings, Philadelphia Museum of Art, delivers her lecture An Acquiring Mind: John S. Phillips, a Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia Print Collector’s Taste for Drawings on Saturday, March 5, 2016.

Hugo Chapman, The Simon Sainsbury Keeper of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, London, presents his keynote address Parallels, Patterns and Reversals: The British Museum as a Template for Collecting Old Master Drawings on Friday, March 4, 2016.

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

Join music director Salvatore Di Vittorio and the Chamber Orchestra of New York for a Christmas inspired concert of Baroque works to coincide with the exhibition Charles Dickens and the Spirit of Christmas. Featuring Davide Alogna, violin. 


The film, An Illuminated Haggadah for the 21st Century was produced to accompany the Rose Haggadah manuscript and to document the process and craft involved in its creation.

In the inaugural Thaw Lecture (held on 5 May 2015), Alastair Laing, 2014–15 Thaw Senior Fellow at the Drawing Institute and longtime curator of paintings for the National Trust in the United Kingdom, investigates the audience for, and function of, the 10,000 drawings Rococo master François Bouche