‘Entrance to the Mind: Drawings by George Condo’ in The Morgan Library & Museum

 

 

 

Female Portrait, 2003. The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of Anna Nikolayevsky, 2021.102. Photography by George Condo Studio. © George Condo, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.

In 2021, the Morgan acquired twenty-eight drawings by American artist George Condo (b. 1957) that offer an overview of his career over the last forty-five years. Ranging from early drawings made when he was a teenager to recent explorations into what he calls “psychological Cubism,” the exhibition, Entrance to the Mind: Drawings by George Condo will highlight Condo’s brilliant draftsmanship through a cast of characters in turn comic, monstrous, tragic, and endearing. The exhibition opens on February 24th.

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The Morgan Library & Museum Presents ‘Uncommon Denominator: Nina Katchadourian at the Morgan’

 

 

 

Jan van de Velde (1593 – 1641), The sorceress [Netherlands?: s.n.], 1626, engraving in Joseph Ames (compiler; English, 1689–1759), Emblematic and Satirical Prints on Persons and Professions. The Morgan Library & Museum, PML 145850.40. Photography by Janny Chiu.

The Morgan Library & Museum is pleased to present Uncommon Denominator, a sequence-based exhibition in which interdisciplinary artist Nina Katchadourian combines pieces from the Morgan’s collection with her own artworks and objects of familial significance. Opening February 10th and on view through May 28th, 2023, it is the third in an ongoing series of exhibitions the Morgan’s Photography Department has created in collaboration with a living artist.

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Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth at the Morgan Library & Museum

 

 

 

J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973), Bilbo comes to the Huts of the Raft-elves, July 1937, watercolor, pencil, white body color. Bodleian Libraries, MS. Tolkien Drawings 29. © The Tolkien Estate Limited 1937.

The exhibition Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth will open at The Morgan Library & Museum on January 25th. Continue reading “Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth at the Morgan Library & Museum”