On a rainy evening in New York City, during the fall of 2023, a group of Untapped New York Insiders sought shelter within the book-lined walls of The Morgan Library and Museum, and we had the place ...

A trip to the Morgan Library in NYC, a rare books library set up by the banker J.P. Morgan, holding an incredible collection of illuminated manuscripts, paintings, coptic manuscripts, and more! The ...

When the Franz Kafka exhibit opened at The Morgan Library & Museum in November 2024 it marked two important centennial milestones: the opening of the Morgan Library and the anniversary of Kafka’s ...

“Georg Baselitz: Six Decades of Drawings” reflects on the contemporary German artist’s career with pieces from his most celebrated series. Now on view in New York City. The Morgan Library & Museum ...

The subject of a bestseller who led a remarkable life as a scholar and cultural force while hiding her Black identity is the focus of an exhibition at the institution she headed. An online resource, ...

Toward the end of the 19th century, J. Pierpont Morgan—the Gilded Age’s wolf of Wall Street—used some of his wealth to amass a vast collection of books and art. He soon realized it needed a home, and ...

At the Morgan Library, 15th-century illuminated atlases embody the medieval appetite for wonder and myth. By Walker Mimms If the past is a foreign country, as L.P. Hartley wrote, customs make it so.

A nearly 200-year-old music manuscript by composer Frédéric Chopin was recently unearthed at a museum in New York. A curator was sorting through a collection gifted to the Morgan Library & Museum in ...

With its exquisitely vaulted ceiling and inlaid walnut bookshelves covering three floors, the East Room was designed as a treasury and showroom for Morgan's rare book collection. The Morgan Library & ...