Art
In Search of Intimacy: Fall Museum Shows in New York
Skimming through various museum sites for their fall schedules, the first thing that caught my eye was a notice for The Art of the Chinese Album at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Morgan Library & Museum
Art
"The Star-Spangled Banner" as You've Never Heard It Before
It's been 200 years since Francis Scott Key's poem about a shredded star-spangled flag surviving an 1814 British siege at Fort Henry was set to music. To commemorate the anniversary, the Morgan Library & Museum has put on view one of the few surviving copies of the first edition.
Books
At the Morgan, a Master's Minuscule Manuscripts
The Morgan Library & Museum over the last few years has added some small wonders to its collections, and now for the first time a sampling of these miniature books is on public view. Opened last month, Miracles in Miniature: The Art of the Master of Claude de France celebrates one of the last greats
Art
The Romantic Symbolism of Trees
The Romantic landscape artists of the 18th and 19th century were so obsessed with nature and the skies above that in 1856 critic John Ruskin called the frenzy "modern-day cloud worship."
News
Morgan Library Puts Hundreds of Rembrandt Etchings Online
The Morgan Library & Museum announced today that it has completed the digitization of its entire collection of Rembrandt etchings.
Art
The Sci-Fi Writer Who Used Photography to Search for Ancient Aliens
In the 1940s, science fiction fans were gripped by tales of an underworld of nefarious beings preying on the humans up above.
Art
Morgan Library Debuts Photography Department
The Morgan Library and Museum has received much favorable attention in recent years for its drawings-focused and literary exhibitions. But in March 2012, the institution named Joel Smith its first ever curator of photography, and now, nearly two years later, it will open its first exhibition organiz
Art
A Nightmarish History of Spanish Drawings
For the first time, the dark manifestations of the Spanish drawings held by the Morgan Library and Museum are seeing the gallery lights. Visions and Nightmares: Four Centuries of Spanish Drawings opened last month as the museum's inaugural foray into the overlooked history of drawing in Spanish art.
Art
Morgan Library Unveils New York Roots of 'The Little Prince' in Manuscript Exhibition
You might know how essential it is to keep your asteroid free from baobab tree infestations and how integral it is to sweep your volcanoes but still have no idea that Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince was created in New York City.
Art
Single Point Perspective: “The Most Beautiful Drawing in the World”
The centerpiece of the stunning new exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, Leonardo da Vinci: Treasures from the Biblioteca Reale, Turin, is “Head of a Young Woman,” which Bernard Berenson, the renowned authority on Italian Renaissance art, called “one of the finest achievements of all draughtsm
Art
Bridge to Nowhere: Matthew Barney’s Drawings
The elaborately baroque art of Matthew Barney puts some people off, and I count myself among them. His Olympian athleticism, symbol-laden costume dramas and obsession with petroleum jelly can be fascinating, but they can also feel chilly and remote.
Art
Proust’s Way: 100 Years of “Things Past”
“Proust? No one is less dead than he is,” said Suzy Proust, Marcel’s niece. Right she was. Is. Everything about this one-room exhibition (all the one-room exhibitions at the Morgan seem grand to me, just the right size and feeling) is perfectly chosen and described.