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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.

Long before becoming one of the most celebrated figures in the history of science, Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) kept a pocket-sized memorandum book, filling it with notes distilled from reading during his grammar school and early Cambridge days. Join Philip S. Palmer, Robert H.

“I kind of draw like you are walking through the forest,” Condo explains. “You don’t really know where you are going.

Dr. Colin B. Bailey, Director of the Morgan Library & Museum, traces the development of J. Pierpont Morgan as a collector of rare books and manuscripts.

In this two-part videos series, self-proclaimed letter-writing enthusiast (and Mean Girls star) Rajiv Surendra guides us through the art of writing a letter and maintaining a handwritten correspondence.

Animals, both factual and fantastic, fill the pages of medieval bestiaries.  These compilations of animal lore and legend merge the familiar with the strange, the local with the distant, and the desirable with the dangerous.

Co-curators of the exhibition Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders, Sherry C.M.

Long before becoming one of the most celebrated figures in the history of science, Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) kept this pocket-sized memorandum book, filling it with notes distilled from his reading.