Churchill:
The Power of Words
Closes September 23, 2012
Churchill’s masterful use of the written and spoken word is at the heart of this popular exhibition, visited by tens of thousands of people since its opening in June.
Drawn from the Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, and Churchill’s house at Chartwell, documents on view span the great leader’s long life and
political career. Highlights include childhood letters to his Brooklyn-born mother, top-secret war-time telegrams to President Roosevelt, Churchill’s Nobel Prize in Literature, and his certificate of Honorary U.S. Citizenship, granted by President John F. Kennedy.
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Renaissance Venice:
Drawings from the Morgan
Closes September 23, 2012
This exhibition brings to life the dynamic artistic and cultural milieu of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Venice, a time when the city established itself as a powerful maritime republic and center of international trade. Marking the first exhibition to focus on the Morgan's outstanding collection of drawings created during this important
era, Renaissance Venice features seventy-four works by masters such as Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, and Carpaccio, as well as many other less known but highly gifted artists. The exhibition also highlights Venice’s place at the forefront of innovations in printmaking, book publishing, and cartography.
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Alanna Schindewolf
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The Morgan Library & Museum
The Morgan Library & Museum began as the private library of financier Pierpont Morgan, one of the preeminent collectors and cultural benefactors in the United States. Today, more than a century after its founding in 1906, the Morgan serves as a museum, independent research library, musical venue, architectural landmark, and historic site. In October 2010, the Morgan completed the first-ever restoration of its original McKim building, Pierpont Morgan’s private library, and the core of the institution. In tandem with the 2006 expansion project by architect Renzo Piano, the Morgan now provides visitors unprecedented access to its
world-renowned collections of drawings, literary and historical manuscripts, musical scores, medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, printed books, and ancient Near Eastern seals and tablets.
General Information
The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Avenue, at 36th Street
New York, NY 10016-3405
212.685.0008
www.themorgan.org
Just a short walk from Grand Central and Penn Station
Hours
Tuesday–Thursday, 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; extended Friday hours, 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; closed Mondays, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day. The Morgan closes at 4 p.m. on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. The Morgan will be open on the following holiday Mondays in 2012: Labor Day, September 3; Columbus Day, October
8; Christmas Eve, December 24; New Year’s Eve, December 31.
Admission
$15 for adults; $10 for students, seniors (65 and over), and children (under 16); free to Members and children 12 and under accompanied by an adult. Admission is free on Fridays from 7 to 9 p.m. Admission is not required to visit the Morgan Shop.
Images:
Winston Churchill, 1941© Estate of Yousuf Karsh Girolamo da CremonaAristotle and Averroes Disputing, from
AristotleOpere (Works), Volume 1
Printed by Andrea Torresani and Bartolomeo de Blavis in Venice, 1483
Vellum
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York
Photography: Graham S. Haber, 2012
