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The Morgan Library & Museum
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A museum and independent research library located in the heart of New York City, the Morgan Library & Museum began as the personal library of financier, collector, and cultural benefactor Pierpont Morgan. Today, beautiful, light-filled spaces, designed by renowned architect Renzo Piano, connect three centuries of landmark Morgan architecture, offering visitors an intimate and engaging encounter with the great span of artistic achievement.
The Morgan Library & Museum provides visitors with an unforgettable experience in midtown Manhattan. Only at the Morgan can you come face to face with original manuscripts by Mozart and Beethoven, drawings by great masters such as Rembrandt and Rubens to contemporary artists like George Condo and Wangechi Mutu, unmatched medieval and Renaissance illuminated texts, a Gutenberg Bible, literary items from seminal writers such as Twain and Hemingway, and evocative Ancient Western Asian carvings more than two thousand years old.
The Morgan Library & Museum provides visitors with an unforgettable experience in midtown Manhattan. Only at the Morgan can you come face to face with original manuscripts by Mozart and Beethoven, drawings by great masters such as Rembrandt and Rubens to contemporary artists like George Condo and Wangechi Mutu, unmatched medieval and Renaissance illuminated texts, a Gutenberg Bible, literary items from seminal writers such as Twain and Hemingway, and evocative Ancient Western Asian carvings more than two thousand years old.
100 years of illuminating the creative process! | The Morgan Library and Museum
As Fran Lebowitz puts it, "The Morgan Library, quite truthfully, it's a treasure house." 2024 is a year of celebration as we dive deeper into our vast collections! Over the past century, inspired by the vision of our founders, we have grown our collections across various media, expanded our physical footprint, and become a global resource for research and conservation. Tune in for a peek at what our friends and collaborators love about us in this video, as the Morgan has evolved into one of New York's most beloved cultural institutions in the last 100 years.
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Crafting the Ballets Russes: The Robert Owen Lehman Collection
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Robinson McClellan, Associate Curator of Music Manuscripts and Printed Music, discusses the importance of Robert Owen Lehman’s extraordinary collection of music manuscripts that has been an inspiration to scholars and visitors since it was placed on deposit at the Morgan Library & Museum. Among its many splendid works are deep holdings of early-twentieth-century ballet, including Igor Stravinsk...
James Ivory on his archive and creative process | Collection in Focus
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“[The film] has to be basically truthful according to human nature. It has to be real. And that comes from your understanding of people and your lifetime experience... You learn from that. But basically, it has to be truthful. And where are you if it’s not?” -James Ivory For our Centennial, we asked some of our friends and collaborators to speak about what they love about the Morgan Library & M...
Lecture: Liberty to Imagination: Drawings from the Eveillard Gift
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Join Colin B. Bailey, Katharine J. Rayner Director of The Morgan Library & Museum, for a special opening night lecture that explores drawings by Rembrandt, Watteau, Degas, Renoir, and other highlights in the exhibition, Liberty to Imagination: Drawings from the Eveillard Gift. The Morgan is a collection of collections, and the 100th anniversary of its founding provides an opportunity to celebra...
Fran Lebowitz on the Process of Great Writing | Collection in Focus
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“The closest thing to a human being is a book. I know people think it’s a dog, but they’re wrong…When you look at manuscripts or letters and they’re written in the hand of the writer, you are closer to that writer, you’re closer to the person.” -Fran Lebowitz For our Centennial, we asked some of our friends and collaborators to speak about what they love about the Morgan Library and Museum. Wat...
Walton Ford: Birds and Beasts of the Studio
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American artist Walton Ford and Jennifer Tonkovich, our Eugene and Clare Thaw Curator of Drawings and Prints, discuss the artist’s current exhibition “Walton Ford: Birds and Beasts of the Studio.” Ford established his reputation in the 1990s with his monumental watercolor paintings of wild animals inspired by true or legendary stories of dramatic encounters between humankind and nature. Fascina...
Walton Ford on Expressing Truths of the Natural World Through Art | Collection in Focus
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"Truth comes out of the actual natural object and informs the way that the artist makes the work." -Walton Ford For our Centennial, we asked some of our friends and collaborators to speak about what they love about the Morgan. First up, artist Walton Ford describes some of his favorites drawings in our collection and what about these works inspire him. Ford is excited by keen observation and in...
Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature
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Curator Philip Palmer takes us through "Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature" and shares how the beloved children's book author rooted her fiction in the natural world. Beatrix Potter, creator of unforgettable animal characters like Peter Rabbit, Mr. Jeremy Fisher, and Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, spent her childhood summers in Scotland and the English Lake District nourished her love of nature. Potter's famo...
Symposium: Tiepolo Drawings: Reconsiderations and Discoveries Part 2
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The symposium is devoted to the drawings of the Tiepolo family, and is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Spirit and Invention: Drawings by Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo. Presented on January 25, 2024 by the Morgan Drawing Institute.
Symposium: Tiepolo Drawings: Reconsiderations and Discoveries Part 1
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The symposium is devoted to the drawings of the Tiepolo family, and is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Spirit and Invention: Drawings by Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo. Presented on January 25, 2024 by the Morgan Drawing Institute.
The Morgan at 100
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Celebrating 100 years of illuminating the creative process! 2024 is a big year for the Morgan Library & Museum. To celebrate, we’re diving deeper into our vast collections to bring you some of our most treasured books, objects, and artifacts! Over the past century, following the vision of our founders, we have grown our collections across varied media, expanded our physical footprint, and becom...
Scratching and Fingerprinting: How Turner Revolutionized Watercolor Painting | Collection in Focus
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Take a closer look at J.M.W. Turner’s remarkable work The Pass of St. Gotthard, near Faido with Jennifer Tonkovich, Eugene and Clare Thaw Curator of Drawings and Prints, as she shares its unique connections to art criticism. Turner was the most innovative artist working in Britain during the romantic era. He executed this drawing in 1843 on commission from John Ruskin, who became his most arden...
Blaise Cendrars: Where Poetry and Painting Meet | Collection in Focus
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Sheelagh Bevan, our Andrew W. Mellon Associate Curator of Printed Books and Bindings at the Morgan Library & Museum, discusses Blaise Cendrars, born Frédéric Louis Sauser, a catalyst in some of the explosive artistic innovations of the early 20th century. An intrepid spirit, he left his Swiss homeland at age 17. In Saint Petersburg and New York, he wrote his first poems and transformed into Bla...
Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality
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Diane Wolfthal, David and Caroline Minter Chair Emerita in the Humanities and Professor Emerita of Art History, Rice University, and Dei Jackson, Assistant Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts here at the Morgan, discuss their current exhibition “Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality,” which charts the economic revolution that took place at the end of the Middle Ages and the early ...
Camerata Trajectina
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The Sounds of the City as Heard by Jacob Steendam, the First Poet of New York The early music ensemble Camerata Trajectina follows in Jacob Steendam’s (1616-1672) footsteps and presents Dutch music that once echoed off the walls of the houses of New Amsterdam. Interspersed with anecdotes and quotes from original sources, this program recreates the soundscape and musical culture of Dutch Manhatt...
Peter Hujar's Career in Contact Sheets | Collection in Focus
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Peter Hujar's Career in Contact Sheets | Collection in Focus
Spirit and Invention: Drawings by Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo
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Spirit and Invention: Drawings by Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo
Morgan's Bibles: Splendor in Scripture
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Morgan's Bibles: Splendor in Scripture
The Most Fascinating Librarian in American History: Telling the Story of Belle da Costa Greene
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The Most Fascinating Librarian in American History: Telling the Story of Belle da Costa Greene
Representation Synchrome & Synchromism
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Representation Synchrome & Synchromism
The End of the World According to Medieval Spanish Literature | Collection in Focus
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The End of the World According to Medieval Spanish Literature | Collection in Focus
The Queen of France's Prayer Book and its Mysteries | Collection in Focus
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The Queen of France's Prayer Book and its Mysteries | Collection in Focus
Ferdinand Hodler and Mark Rothko: A Passion for the Italian RenaissanceNiklaus Manuel Güdel
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Ferdinand Hodler and Mark Rothko: A Passion for the Italian RenaissanceNiklaus Manuel Güdel
Ferdinand Hodler: Drawings-Selections from the Musée Jenisch Vevey
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Ferdinand Hodler: Drawings-Selections from the Musée Jenisch Vevey
Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist’s Studio
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Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist’s Studio
Claude Gillot and the Paris Art World ca. 1690-1720, Part 2
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Claude Gillot and the Paris Art World ca. 1690-1720, Part 2
Claude Gillot and the Paris Art World ca. 1690-1720, Part 1
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Claude Gillot and the Paris Art World ca. 1690-1720, Part 1
Gallery One: Where and How the World Met the Art of Bridget Riley
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Gallery One: Where and How the World Met the Art of Bridget Riley
Becoming Morgan: J. Pierpont Morgan's Early Collecting
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Becoming Morgan: J. Pierpont Morgan's Early Collecting
Light and Flow: Liliane Lijn's Crossing Map
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Light and Flow: Liliane Lijn's Crossing Map
My mum will turn 80 in a couple months and yet Fran looks 10 years older !! don´t smoke. hope fran´s ok and not very sick. cheerios
Thats such a beautiful handwriting
Not an accurate title
Compared himself to Jane Austen..?? Illustration of how utterly deluded he is...!! His friends in the Lit crit " Magic Circle " mainly to blame of course for fostering the delusion....See : H C ANDERSON : The Emperor's New Clothes....?? He explains it perfectly..!!
Got to study there this summer and it was amazing!!! Everyone was so kind and helpful! It was transformative experience and is already making a difference in my teaching!
My heart is totally full listening to her loving loving loving Oscar Wilde. I'm so proud to be an Irishman like him, and queer to boot, and I get MY bus from the stop outside his house in Dublin. Thanks Morgan Library for this video, I'll visit when next in New York.
Please let us know if we can read that whole letter from Oscar online.
Would love to see this in person, you brought these artifacts to life for us, thank you!
I am listening to Jane Eyre. I couldn’t turn off the video fast enough lol.
I lived close by the Morgan Library on 36th St in NYC and saw the mss. page of a Joyce poem, chicken-scratched on a ragged piece of foolscap. It really encouraged me as a young writer to "see" Joyce pulling his hair out too.
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I do beg your pardon, but I have to say, Beatrix Potter is likely to have not spoken in that accent, as she was born and grew up in Windermere, which is in the North West of England. It's likely Beatrix will have had a warm Lancashire accent. It's a completely different accent, to that generic posh upper class accent. 😂😂😂 Ey by gum.. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Ekky flumps.. 😂😂
Thank you so much for sharing this video and giving us a sneak peek at this amazing exhibit. I'm headed to NYC next month for a guided tour of this exhibit. I can't wait!
Wow, Ballet exibitions are so few and far between. This one looks amazing! And wonderful, informative video!
Looks absolutely amazing! The Morgan once again proves its worth as one of the most important library/museums in the world.
You've given me a great idea!! I live in Mexico and my sister in Tucson, I'll buy ink and paper and send her a letter as when we were younger. Thanks a lot for the idea. God bless you.
01:09:20 Piazzolla ❤
There is no woman (or man) like Fran Lebowitz. She is the most interesting and amazing woman I know (from. afar of course).
I have one of those lochby. It’s fantastic! And that tomoe river paper is still one of my top fav paper, even when writing with pencils
I could listen to her forever.
Colm Tóibin's <The Master> gave me a convincing and fresh understanding about Henry James.
The Black Prayer Books or Black Book of Hours were more expensive compared to other Book of Hours there. The parchment papers were soaked with black dye or ink and iron-copper and as a result could only be inscribed with gold or silver lettering.
The ‘Dark Ages’ were between the 5th and 14th centuries, lasting 900 years. The timeline falls between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance. The (Black Death) was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Afro-Eurasia from 1346 to 1353. It is the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history, causing the death of 75-200 million (Black) people in Eurasia and North Africa, peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351. (Erasing Black Europe) The Renaissance is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass ideas and achievements of classical antiquity.
Interesting how the scholarship of a particular epoch reflects the social fashions of the time period. The scholars in this talk act as if othering is a concept only used by Europeans against other races. The reality of course is this is human nature and can be seen by anybody who has travelled out of their own backyard.
Wonderful video and wonderful show… thank goodness for the Morgan
Thank you algorithm for leading me here!
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Fabulous! Love the art too...Leon Bakst, costume designer/art work...one of my favorite!
Wow - the way he speaks about art is so passionate; it's an art in itself!
I am as captivated by her art as by her eloquence!
Great quality content; the pacing, narration, editing, and visuals are all very captivating!
Incredibley perfect video!
Fabulous video! Thank you. Can't wait to see the exhibit. Btw, sent the video to three more people.
I appreciate her work. It’s technically amazing, but more importantly, it engages my mind. I would only suggest to the people here, to reflect deeper into why it in-rages you. Because, that’s actually the interesting part. why do you feel irritated by someone’s self expression? It actually says a lot more about you, than her.
Given the small size of the notebook, he must have used very fine-nibbed pens, presumably feather quills.
I love how excited he gets about erstwhile art ...I'm inspired as an artist myself
I fell into Fran Lebowitz's gravitational pull in 1978. I will orbit said gravitational pull until the end of days.
"what could be more new york than that? there's a bus stop in front and inside is this" YESSSSSSSS FRAN! Love you.
Love the Morgan Library. In the late 90s it introduced me to illuminated manuscripts . The craftsmanship was so fucking impressive I went twice.
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It just fits in so wonderfully with the other chalcolithic cultures of that period in Europe and the Mediterranean and the strong position of women in those cultures. Unfortunately we can’t read any of the few texts which have survived till today. One of the best lectures I have ever listened to!
well, I would say that both, Room With A View and Howard's End, delight me still...always recommend them...
The Mass is still said to this day, because the desecration was real. Even if the red spots were caused by a fungi (and there is no scientific proof of that, since the host was burnt), the host itself was sacred, as is every single consecrated host. So even without that miracle, the desecration occurred.
She wrote two books. Whatever.
I think saying "art is useless" is a bit misleading.. creating a mood is quite useful, I'm thinking to help cope with mental health issues for example
Somebody tell Fran that when she's in Buffalo she can page through Mark Train's original manuscript for Huckleberry Finn in his own hand with lots of corrections at the Erie County Library.
Not enough more more more!!👏❤
Excellent summary... A woman of incredible contribution!
A natural treasure. Fran, not the library. Regarding the ability to write finished prose without extensive revision: This can be accomplished only by a handful of the very best authors. Such people can sometimes be recognized by their ability to speak in finished prose. Among them, of course, was Oscar Wilde, one of the greatest raconteurs of the 19th century. In the century that followed, we have New York Times film critic Pauline Kael. I’ve seen her interviewed and she spoke in perfect paragraphs. And then there was Christopher Hitchens. Though I had some issues with his thinking, I was also aware that after a boozy lunch with colleagues, he would return to his office and type out a thousand-word column for the evening edition. His manuscripts were nearly as pure as the driven snow. Who am I to argue with such an intellect? Nobody, that’s who. Oh! And Fran’s pristine commentary is right up there with the best of them!
I am grateful for these custodians of books, art-- but she is not an artist, and has made one big mistake: art is hardly "useless", and meant to create a "mood"; mood is not the aim of art but a quality, art ALWAYS has a real "useful" purpose, just that once that purpose is realized it then becomes "useless" but retains it's beauty. We might admire a photo realist painting, but may not know the purpose was to show what a "photographic" painting really looked like, because at that time the takeover of art by abstract art relied on the belief that realism was nothing more than a photographic copy of the external world, the photo-realists were saying "THIS is what a photographic painting looks like" , Gertrude Stein wrote in a style where dialogue was mostly what the characters were thinking to emphasize knowing the hidden thoughts causing actions--examples are endless. What separates great art from the rest is it surpasses it's aesthetic qualities and creates change distinctly different from the way science and politics creates change.
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What is the name of Holy/ divine pig in Medieval lit?