“The Morgan Library & Museum proudly presents an exhibition celebrating the remarkable collection of drawings assembled by one of America’s foremost art dealers, Richard Gray, and his wife, the art historian Mary L. Gray. Encompassing works made in Europe and the United States between the… Read More
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David Hockney: Drawing from Life at The Morgan Library & Museum, October 2, 2020 – May 30, 2021
“David Hockney (b. 1937) is one of the most internationally renowned living artists. The exhibition is the first to focus on his portraits on paper, and one of very few to investigate his drawing practice. Featuring over 100 drawings and prints, it will trace a… Read More
Betye Saar: Call and Response at The Morgan Library & Museum, September 12, 2020 – January 31, 2021
“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… Read More
The Drawings of Al Taylor at The Morgan Library & Museum, February 21 – May 24, 2020
“The Morgan Library & Museum is proud to announce a presentation of drawings by painter, sculptor, and draftsman Al Taylor (1948–1999). The Drawings of Al Taylor explores the artist’s lyrical and witty compositions inspired by banal objects and everyday situations. Driven by curiosity and a sense… Read More
The Book of Ruth: Medieval to Modern at The Morgan Library & Museum, February 14 – June 14, 2020
“The Morgan Library & Museum is pleased to present The Book of Ruth: Medieval to Modern. The exhibition celebrates the gift made in 2018 by Joanna S. Rose of The Joanna S. Rose Illuminated Book of Ruth to the Morgan. The accordion-fold vellum manuscript, measuring… Read More
Alfred Jarry: The Carnival of Being and Jean-Jacques Lequeu: Visionary Architect at The Morgan Library & Museum, through May 10, 2020
Alfred Jarry: The Carnival of Being, January 24 through May 10, 2020 “The Morgan Library & Museum presents the first major U.S. museum exhibition exploring the iconoclastic works and personality of the French writer Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Alfred Jarry: The Carnival of Being considers the… Read More
Illusions of the Photographer: Duane Michals at the Morgan, The Morgan Library & Museum, October 25, 2019 – February 2, 2020
“The Morgan Library & Museum proudly presents an exhibition combining a six-decade retrospective of Duane Michals with an artist’s-choice selection of works from all corners of the permanent collection. Michals is known for his picture sequences, inscribed photographs, and, more recently, films that pose emotional,… Read More
John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal and Guercino: Virtuoso Draftsman at The Morgan Library & Museum, October 4, 2019 – January, 2020
John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal, October 4, 2019 – January 12, 2020 “John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) was one of the greatest portrait artists of his time. While he is best known for his powerful paintings, he largely ceased painting portraits in 1907 and turned instead… Read More
Verdi: Creating Otello and Falstaff—Highlights from the Ricordi Archive at The Morgan Library & Museum September 6, 2019 – January 5, 2020
“After Aida in 1871, except for occasional projects, Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901), Italy’s pre-eminent composer, retired from opera at the age of 58. This, however, did not prevent constant pleas from his publisher and future librettist for the maestro to return to the operatic stage. Reluctantly… Read More
Among Others: Photography and the Group at The Morgan Library & Museum, through August 18, 2019
“The Morgan Library & Museum presents a new exhibition about photography’s unique capacity to represent the bonds that unite people. From posed group portraits and candid street scenes to collages, constructions, and serial imagery, photographers have used many methods to place people in a shared… Read More
Drawing the Curtain: Maurice Sendak’s Designs for Opera and Ballet at The Morgan Library & Museum, June 14 – October 6, 2019
“A summer exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum celebrates an extraordinary bequest from acclaimed author and illustrator of children’s books Maurice Sendak (1928–2012). Best known for his 1963 picture book Where the Wild Things Are, Sendak was an avid music and opera lover. Beginning… Read More
Walt Whitman: Bard of Democracy at The Morgan Library & Museum, June 7 – September 15, 2019
“In celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth, the Morgan Library & Museum exhibits the work of the beloved American poet. In a notebook in 1859, Whitman wrote, “Comrades! I am the bard of Democracy,” and over his 73 years (1819–1892) he… Read More