Event Calendar
| Date(s) Sort descending | Event | Event Type | Region |
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| September 7, 2024 - September 7, 2025 | Artful Collaboration: Eric Carle & Ann Beneduce
The author-editor relationship is a collaborative partnership built on mutual respect, trust, and a shared commitment to creating the best possible work. It can also be a highly personal alliance. Eric Carle and editor Ann Beneduce worked together over five decades and developed a steadfast friendship. Ann published the first picture book Eric wrote and illustrated—1, 2, 3 to the Zoo in 1968—and she played a vital role in bringing The Very Hungry Caterpillar to life the following year. Eric followed Ann as she moved to different publishing houses, including Philomel, the imprint she created in the early 1980s. Ann continued to edit Eric’s books even after her retirement, including the 2015 publication The Nonsense Show. “Ann had the greatest influence on me,” acknowledged Eric. “We were well suited for each other.” This exhibition explores the 50-year professional relationship between the beloved picture book artist, Eric Carle, and the legendary picture book editor, Ann Beneduce. It includes never-before-exhibited art, correspondence, and photographs. Wed – Fri 10am – 4pm Adult $15 West Gallery Amherst, MA More info |
Exhibits | Mid-Atlantic |
| January 30, 2025 - May 3, 2026 | Come Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytelling
Come Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytelling Combining diverse artworks from across the Morgan’s collections and some exceptional loans, Come Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytelling explores how stories shape our world. The exhibition showcases over 130 objects, including drawings, paintings, photographs, printed books, manuscripts, artifacts, comics, and more, fostering fresh encounters with beloved works of art and literature and presenting exciting new acquisitions. Throughout, Come Together unites modern and historical artworks, underscoring conceptual, thematic, and visual links between them and stimulating new interpretations and imaginative associations. Come Together traces a trajectory from the universal to the specific, offering new perspectives on the cultural transmission of stories and their overall importance. The first section, “Belief and Belonging,” considers origin stories, epics, legends, and myths, while the second, “Shaping Stories,” sheds light on the creative process through the presentation of drafts, typescripts, and sketches, including a heavily annotated page of James Joyce’s Ulysses and Jean de Brunhoff’s earliest drawings of the perpetually popular pachyderm Babar. The heart of the exhibition, “Picture This!” demonstrates diverse approaches to visual storytelling through a wide array of objects, from Indian miniatures and shadow puppets to early films and the speech bubble. Boundaries between imaginative and literal worlds are blurred in “Life Stories,” featuring texts and artworks that speak to personal experience, including Henry David Thoreau’s journals and artworks by Philip Guston, Nellie Mae Rowe, Nancy Spero, and Kara Walker. Saul Steinberg’s witty drawing, The West Side (1973), depicting the rest of the United States and the world as an adjunct to New York City, sets the tone for the final section, “New York Stories.” Here, artworks by Joe Baker, Stuart Davis, Keith Haring, Peter Hujar, and others reflect responses to the multicultural metropolis by visitors, immigrants, and native New Yorkers alike. Tue - Thu, Sat & Sun 10:30am - 5pm The Morgan Library & Museum New York, NY More info |
Exhibits | Mid-Atlantic |
| April 18, 2025 - September 19, 2025 | Bloody Work: Lexington and Concord 1775
Bloody Work: Lexington and Concord 1775 explores the early months of 1775 in Massachusetts, the battles of April 19, and their immediate aftermath, giving an account of the events that ignited a nearly eight-year Revolutionary War between the British Empire and its American colonies. In addition to original historical letters, documents, maps, and artwork from the Clements Library's holdings, the exhibition features never-before-exhibited manuscripts on loan from the collection of Dr. Gary Milan. Mon - Wed, & Fri 9am - 4:30pm William Clements Library Ann Arbor, MI More info |
Exhibits | Midwest |
| April 19, 2025 - November 9, 2025 | Open + Shut: Celebrating the Art of Endpapers
Endpapers are the unsung glory of contemporary children’s publishing. Once a purely functional form—sturdy pages glued to the inside of a book’s cardboard covers—endpapers today are often full of wit, surprise, and even deep emotion. As one of the first (and last!) visual elements readers encounter when interacting with a book, endpapers set the mood for the story inside. These can extend the main story, offer a conceptual take on a theme or action, or provide additional visual and narrative information. Original work by more than 30 artists. Wed – Fri 10am – 4pm Adult $15 Central Gallery Amherst, MA More info |
Exhibits | Mid-Atlantic |
| May 30, 2025 - September 14, 2025 | Arresting Beauty: Julia Margaret Cameron
Arresting Beauty: Julia Margaret Cameron explores the path-breaking career of photography’s first widely recognized artist. Cameron (1815–1879) was born in Calcutta modern day Kolkata) to a French mother and an English father; in 1848, with her husband and children, she moved to England, where her sisters introduced her to the elite cultural circles in which they traveled. Residing on the Isle of Wight, where she was close neighbors with the poet Alfred Tennyson, Cameron acquired her first camera at age 48. In only eleven years she would create thousands of exposures and leave an enduring image of the Victorian era as an age of intellectual and spiritual ambition. Cameron’s prodigious drive helped her become a probing portraitist of leading writers, artists, and scientists, such as Tennyson, Thomas Carlyle, G.F. Watts, and Charles Darwin, while her absorption with fine art, notably Renaissance painting, led her to create staged tableaux in a mode that has been perpetually rediscovered by photographers down to the present. Most distinct of all was Cameron’s wholly personal handling of her medium. Heedless of contemporary conventions of technique, alert to the happy effects of accident, and indifferent to critical scorn, she embraced a style of spontaneous intimacy that distanced her from the photographic establishment of her time and class. Motion blur, highly selective focus, and even fingerprints on the glass negatives (which required developing before their emulsions dried) are among the idiosyncrasies of her singular oeuvre. Cameron was quick to exploit publishing and promotional opportunities: at London’s South Kensington Museum (today the Victoria and Albert Museum) she secured not only an exhibition in 1865 but, a few years later, studio space, and she was the first photographic artist to be collected by the institution. Arresting Beauty features prints from its initial purchase and from subsequent additions to its holdings, which have grown to number nearly one thousand. The exhibition includes Cameron’s large camera lens (all that survives of her apparatus), pages from her unfinished memoir manuscript Annals of My Glass House, and portraits she made in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) after Cameron and her husband moved there in 1875. Tue, Wed, Thu, Sat & Sun 10:30am - 5pm The Morgan Library & Museum New York, NY More info |
Exhibits | Mid-Atlantic |
