This exhibition celebrates the Morgan’s recent acquisition of drawings by Thornton Dial, Nellie Mae Rowe, Henry Speller, Luster Willis, and Purvis Young.
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Shahzia Sikander Draws the Immeasurability of Women
The artist uses her technical and artistic gifts to render a clear vision of women who defy stereotypes.
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The Morgan Library & Museum Presents Shahzia Sikander: Extraordinary Realities
A new exhibition highlights the first 15 years of the internationally celebrated artist’s career.
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Collages Inspired by Langston Hughes Poems Acquired by Morgan Library
The donation of Ashley Bryan’s work marks the Morgan’s first major acquisition of work by a Black children’s author and illustrator.
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Drawing in the Computer Age At the Morgan Library & Museum
The Morgan Library & Museum explores the intersection of drawing and technology with a talk by Rachel Federman.
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The Anti-Caravaggio
Pontormo’s figures, though illuminated in godliness, are invariably human in their proportions and hushed in their emotions.
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Julie Mehretu and Jonathan Safran Foer Share the Films That Inspire Their Work
Artist Julie Mehretu and writer Jonathan Safran Foer sit down to discuss the films that inspire their work at the Morgan Library.
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Emily Dickinson Was Less Reclusive Than We Think
I’m Nobody! Who are you? The Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson at the Morgan Library reveals the poet to be far more socially engaged than we’ve believed her to be.
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The Morgan Marks the Centennial of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity
A century has passed since Albert Einstein published his general theory of relativity, which at its core demonstrates that space and time are connected, and both involved in gravity.
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All that Glitters Isn’t Gold — Sometimes It’s Silver from Tiffany’s
The Morgan Library and Museum continues to spotlight some of its glittering books beneath the revamped lighting in its historic 1906 McKim Building.
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Copper Tomb Sculptures Show Rare Forms of Mesopotamian Portraiture
The ten statues in Founding Figures: Copper Sculpture from Ancient Mesopotamia, ca. 3300–2000 BC at the Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan were never meant for our eyes.
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The First Photographs of Lightning Crackle with Electric Chaos
In the 1880s, William Nicholson Jennings set out to prove the diversity and unpredictability of lightning’s path, capturing the electric light with his plate camera.