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  • Modern and Contemporary Drawings: Recent Acquisitions

    February 26 through June 30, 2019
    Nearly fifteen years ago, while the construction of its Renzo Piano-designed expansion was under way, the Morgan embarked on a new program of acquisitions of modern and contemporary drawings.
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  • The Drawings of Al Taylor

    February 21 through September 13, 2020
    Active in New York in the 1980s and 1990s as a sculptor and draftsman, Al Taylor (1948–1999) found inspiration for his lyrical and witty compositions in banal objects and everyday situations.
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  • THE MORGAN PRESENTS A SOLO EXHIBITION OF ASSEMBLAGES AND SKETCHES BY BETYE SAAR

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    The Morgan Library & Museum proudly announces a solo exhibition of work by the Los Angeles–based artist Betye Saar (b. 1926). Best known for incisive collages and assemblages that confront and reclaim racist images, Saar emerged in the 1960s as part  of a wave of artists, many of them African American, who embraced the medium of assemblage.
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  • Conversations in Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection

    This exhibition celebrates the remarkable collection of drawings assembled by the collecting couple Richard Gray, one of America’s foremost art dealers, and art historian Mary L. Gray.

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  • THE MORGAN ANNOUNCES 2014–2015 CONCERT SEASON

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    The Morgan Library & Museum's ninth season of concerts since the 2006 opening of Gilder Lehrman Hall offers a wide range of music programming from early to contemporary music featuring returning partners as well as new ones.
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  • THE MORGAN CELEBRATES ACQUISITION OF UNIQUE EDITIONS OF MAN BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING NOVELS, INCLUDING HILARY MANTEL'S WOLF HALL

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    From May 5 to May 17 the Morgan Library & Museum will hold a special pop-up exhibition celebrating the acquisition of several unique books by authors connected to Britain’s Man Booker Prize.
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  • In the Margins

    May 5 through May 17, 2015
    From May 5 to May 17 the Morgan Library & Museum will hold a special pop-up exhibition celebrating the acquisition of several unique books by authors connected to Britain’s Man Booker Prize.
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  • Collections Spotlight, Fall 2025

    September 16, 2025 through January 11, 2026

    Objects on view in J. Pierpont Morgan’s library reflect the past, present, and future of the collections in four curatorial departments, comprising illuminated manuscripts from the medieval and Renaissance eras, five hundred years of printed books, literary manuscripts and correspondence, as well as printed music and autograph manuscripts by composers.

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  • THE HOURS OF CATHERINE OF CLEVES—ONE OF THE GREATEST OF ALL ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS—TO BE EXHIBITED AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM BEGINNING JANUARY 22

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    Titled Demons and Devotion: The Hours of Catherine of Cleves, the show includes nearly a hundred individual pages from the lavishly painted manuscript, which has been disbound for this special occasion.
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  • THE MORGAN RECEIVES A MAJOR RENOIR DRAWING, UNSEEN FOR OVER 50 YEARS

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    The Morgan Library & Museum is proud to announce the recent acquisition of a large-scale study of two figures for Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s celebrated canvas, The Great Bathers of 1884–87, in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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