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This fall The Morgan Library & Museum will host an exhibition of eighty of the Musée du Louvre's finest drawings by artists working in France from the onset of the Revolution in 1789 through the establishment of the Second Empire in 1852.

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THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM RECEIVES ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT OF THE PHILIP GLASS OPERATIC MASTERPIECE EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH

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Wednesday, March 28, 2018

In 1976 composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson redefined opera with the debut in Avignon, France, of Einstein on the Beach. The nearly five-hour, non-narrative work broke a host of operatic conventions and would become the most celebrated of the many collaborations between these two giants of the musical and theatrical stage.

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Plein Air Sketching in the North

December 11, 2018 through August 25, 2019

During the second half of the eighteenth century, the practice of using oil paint on paper while working outdoors became popular among landscape artists.

Griffin and worshiper flanking tree(?)

between 1500 B.C. and 1350 B.C.

Morgan Seal 1009

Classification

Cylinder seal

Department

Seals and Tablets

Portrait of Maurice, Prince of Orange, Count of Nassau, Stadholder of The Netherlands (1567-1625)

Jacob de Gheyn

1565-1629

I, 113

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

"Seat belt or no seat belt - you don't get one for the road!" : cartoon for the New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety [print].

Taylor, Richard.

MA 12466

Classification

Print

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts

NEW EXHIBITION OF J. D. SALINGER LETTERS AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM SHOWS A YOUNG WRITER BALANCING CYNICISM AND HOPE

Press release date

Thursday, June 6, 2013

"Lose not heart": J. D. Salinger's Letters to an Aspiring Writer, a revealing collection of J. D. Salinger's nine letters and postcards to Marjorie Sheard, an aspiring Canadian writer on view from September 10, 2013 to January 12, 2014.

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