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  • Tracking Down Our Roots: A Conversation with Ishmael Reed

    Join novelist, poet, and MacArthur Fellowship recipient Ishmael Reed for a conversation on the empowering role of art as a vehicle for reclaiming elements of African spirituality and culture.

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  • MAJOR GIFT OF MASTER DRAWINGS MADE TO THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM BY EUGENE AND CLARE THAW

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    The Morgan Library & Museum announced today that noted collector and trustee Eugene V. Thaw and his wife, Clare, have given the institution an extraordinary selection of fourteen master drawings, including works by Rembrandt, Turner, Delacroix, van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, and Pollock.
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  • THE MORGAN'S LANDMARK McKIM BUILDING, THE OLDEST STRUCTURE IN THE MUSEUM COMPLEX, REOPENS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30 AFTER FIRST MAJOR INTERIOR RESTORATION SINCE ITS CONSTRUCTION IN 1906

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    The project provides enhanced exhibition space for the institution and enables the Morgan to share with the public more treasures from its world-renowned permanent collection.
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  • Renoir Drawings

    Colin B. Bailey, our Katharine J. Rayner Director and curator of Renoir Drawings, offers an insightful overview of our current exhibition.

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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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    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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  • DRAWING TREASURES FROM THE LOUVRE, A CELEBRATION OF CHARLES DICKENS, AND RARE ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPT PAINTINGS AMONG NOTABLE FALL 2011 EXHIBITIONS AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM

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    Beginning in September, The Morgan Library & Museum will feature a seasonal suite of exhibitions ranging across art, literature, and music that promises to be one of its most exciting and appealing yet.
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  • Rotunda

    The Rotunda, originally entered through the grand doors facing 36th Street, is the dramatic center of the McKim building.

  • Collecting William Blake

    Former director Charles Ryskamp examines five works from his private collection that he generously donated to the Morgan.

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  • Study of Hands Crossed at the Wrists. Verso: Study of a hand and forearm holding a cylindrical object

    Giacomo Cavedone
    1577-1660
    1992.80
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    Drawing
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    Drawings and Prints
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  • Der Hamelberg nebst den Schloss bey Augsburg

    Jakob Christoph Weyermann
    1698-1757
    1961.55
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    Drawing
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    Drawings and Prints
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