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The Morgan Library & Museum
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(courtesy of alibrarian, Feb. 27, 2008)

The Morgan Library & Museum

225 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10016
United States

(212) 685-0008; visitorservicesthemorgan.org

Web site: http://www.themorgan.org/

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Glamour and Guillotine: Fashion, Theater, and Decorative Arts in Eighteenth-Century France (November 12 at 6:30pm)
Harold Koda.; Ian Wardropper.; Caroline Weber.
Join us for a lively discussion on life and culture in eighteenth-century France. Participants include Harold Koda, The Costume Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ian Wardropper, Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Caroline Weber, Department ... (more)of French and Romance Philology, Barnard College and Columbia University. The program will be moderated by Jennifer Tonkovich, Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Morgan Library & Museum. The exhibition “Rococo and Revolution: Eighteenth-Century French Drawings” will be open at 5:30 PM especially for lecture attendees. Tickets are $10-15.
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Past events

PEN World Voices: A Conversation with Ian McEwan and Steven Pinker (May 3 at 2:00pm)
Ian McEwan.; Steven Pinker.
"Join us for a meeting of the minds when Man Booker prize-winning novelist Ian McEwan (Atonement) and internationally acclaimed Harvard scholar Steven Pinker (The Blank Slate and The Stuff of Thought) take the stage for a wide-ranging discussion about writing and the mind. They will discuss the patterns ... (more)and conventions of language and how our thinking is shaped by them."

Tickets: $15 for Non-Members; $10 for Morgan Library & Museum and PEN Members
Tickets to the PEN World Voices programs are available through Smarttix: (212) 868-4444 or Smarttix.
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PEN World Voices: A Tribute to Robert Walser (May 3 at 4:00pm)
Jeffrey Eugenides .; Deborah Eisenberg .; Michael Krüger.; Wayne Koestenbaum.; Susan Bernofsky.
"Through readings and discussion, poets and writers pay tribute to the strange genius of Robert Walser (1878–1956), the Swiss novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet, whose works include Jakob von Gunten, The Assistant, and his Selected Stories."

Tickets: $15 for Non-Members; $10 ... (more)for Morgan Library & Museum and PEN Members
Tickets to the PEN World Voices programs are available through Smarttix: (212) 868-4444 or Smarttix.
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Talking About Guston: Musa Mayer and William Corbett (May 20 at 6:30pm)
Musa Mayer reads from Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston.; William Corbett reads from Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir.
To coincide with the exhibition Philip Guston: Works on Paper, Musa Mayer, advocate and author of Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston, discusses her father and his legacy with poet William Corbett, author of Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir. They will read selections from their works and discuss ... (more)Guston's relationship with writers and artists.

The exhibition Philip Guston: Works on Paper will be open at 5:30 p.m. specially for lecture attendees.
Tickets: $15 for Non-Members; $10 for Members
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Freeing the Elephants: Babar Between the Exotic and the Domestic Imagination of France (November 6 at 6:30pm)
Adam Gopnik.
In a wide-ranging lecture that explores what makes successful children's stories "work," New Yorker essayist Adam Gopnik—author of Paris to the Moon, Through the Children's Gate, and The King in the Window, a book for children—examines the Babar series in its cultural and artistic context. He proposes ... (more)that the series is, in essence, a self-conscious comedy about the French colonial imagination and its close relation to the French domestic imagination. Tickets: $15 for Non-Members; $10 for Members
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John Milton's Life, Work, and Thought (November 13 at 6:30pm)
Gordon Campbell discusses Paradise Lost.
In his forthcoming biography of Milton, Gordon Campbell, an eminent Milton scholar, displaces the traditional image of the austere Puritan, presenting instead the youthful Anglican who, radicalized in his late twenties, became the principal apologist for the execution of Charles I and the English republic's ... (more)most eloquent polemicist. In this lecture, offered in conjunction with the Morgan's exhibition John Milton's Paradise Lost, Campbell will discuss how, despite suffering blindness and the eclipse of his political aspirations, Milton wrote Paradise Lost, the greatest and most influential narrative poem in English. Cosponsored by Oxford University Press. Tickets: $15 for Non-Members; $10 for Members
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December's Culture Spot (December 1 at 10:00am)
NYC & Company, the official marketing, tourism and partnership organization for the City of New York, has named The Morgan Library & Museum the Culture Spot for December. To celebrate this designation, visitors will receive $2 off adult admission Tuesday through Thursday. In addition, visitors will also ... (more)have a chance to participate in a drawing to win a Dual/Family Membership package valued at $150. To receive this discount, visitors must present a special coupon at time of ticket purchase (restrictions apply). Coupons will be available December 1-31 at the Official NYC Information Center Times Square Alliance, Official NYC Information Center Federal Hall, Official NYC Information Kiosk City Hall, Official NYC Information KioskChinatown and online.
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December's Culture Spot (December 31 at 5:00pm)
NYC & Company, the official marketing, tourism and partnership organization for the City of New York, has named The Morgan Library & Museum the Culture Spot for December. To celebrate this designation, visitors will receive $2 off adult admission Tuesday through Thursday. In addition, visitors will also ... (more)have a chance to participate in a drawing to win a Dual/Family Membership package valued at $150. To receive this discount, visitors must present a special coupon at time of ticket purchase (restrictions apply). Coupons will be available December 1-31 at the Official NYC Information Center Times Square Alliance, Official NYC Information Center Federal Hall, Official NYC Information Kiosk City Hall, Official NYC Information KioskChinatown and online.
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The New Yorker Cartoon History of the Stock Market (February 12 at 6:30pm)
Robert Mankoff reads from The New Yorker.
New Yorker cartoon editor Robert Mankoff will draw on the hundreds of cartoons that have appeared in the magazine from the 1920s to the present covering the booms and busts of the different eras. The exhibition “On the Money: Cartoons for The New Yorker” will be open at 5:30 pm especially for lecture ... (more)attendees. Tickets are $15 for Non-members, $10 for Members.
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Three Paths to The New Yorker: Roz Chast, Arnie Levin, and David Sipress (March 18 at 6:30pm)
Lee Lorenz.; Roz Chast.; Arnie Levin.; David Sipress.
Three New Yorker cartoonists discuss their backgrounds, schooling, and career experiences in a lively roundtable moderated by fellow cartoonist and retired art editor Lee Lorenz. The exhibition “On the Money: Cartoons for The New Yorker” will be open at 5:30 pm especially for lecture attendees. Tickets ... (more)are $15 for Non-members, $10 for Members.
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At the Pearly Gates: Judgment, Heaven, and Hell in The New Yorker (April 21 at 6:30pm)
Walter Cahn discusses The New Yorker.
In this richly illustrated lecture, Walter Cahn, Carnegie Professor of the History of Art (emeritus), Yale University, explores the imagery and views of the hereafter in our own time. Largely a product of the Middle Ages, these depictions surprisingly share the pages of The New Yorker with more familiar ... (more)satires on the foibles of doctors, lawyers, and twenty-somethings, among other hilarious subjects. Presented in cooperation with the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA). The exhibition “On the Money: Cartoons for The New Yorker” will be open at 5:30 pm especially for lecture attendees. Tickets are $15 for Non-members, $10 for Morgan and ICMA Members.
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PEN World Voices: Richard Ford in Conversation with Nam Le (May 3 at 2:00pm)
Richard Ford.; Nam Le.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Ford (Independence Day), one of the true giants of contemporary American literature and a master of the short story form, talks to Vietnamese-Australian author Nam Le, whose 2008 story collection, The Boat, was one of the most intriguing and moving debuts of recent ... (more)years. This program is copresented with Bomb magazine. Tickets are $15 for Non-Members; $10 for Morgan and PEN Members.
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PEN World Voices: Henry Hudson @ 400: Amsterdam and New York City (May 3 at 4:00pm)
Ian Buruma.; Geert Mak.; Russell Shorto.
Join us for a journey across the looking glass of the Atlantic to see how these different worlds–Holland and America, Amsterdam and New York–infused and transformed each other, with authors Ian Buruma (Murder in Amsterdam), Geert Mak (In Europe), and Russell Shorto (The Island at the Center of the ... (more)World). This program is copresented with the New York State Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial Commission. Tickets are $15 for Non-Members; $10 for Morgan and PEN Members.
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Blake’s Enlightened Graphics: Illuminated Books and New Technologies (October 8 at 6:30pm)
Joseph Viscomi.
Joseph Viscomi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, examines the radical printmaking technique invented by William Blake in 1788, the facsimile technologies used to reproduce his illustrated books during the 19th and 20th centuries, and the digital technology used by the William Blake Archive ... (more)today. The exhibition William Blake’s World: “A New Heaven Is Begun” will be open at 5:30 PM especially for lecture attendees. Tickets are $10-15.
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