Palladio Exhibit

Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey features thirty-one original Palladio drawings from the Royal Institute of British Architects. These exquisite drawings, which were exhibited only once before in America and never in New York, will be on view to the public for the first time in over thirty years. They are being presented with rare architectural texts to illustrate the journey from Italy to North America of Palladio's design principles of proportion, harmony, and beauty.

The Exhibit is currently at the Morgan Library.

Morgan Library Trip a Success!

Don't miss out on the Morgan Library. It ends the end of March. Our group went this last Saturday and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. We felt quite savvy as we were able to go around to each of the different letters, books, and illustrations. Our tea was very yummy-we had chicken salad, grilled cheese, fruit, tea cookies, and scones with a nice mug of tea. Thank you to Janeite Geri for arranging our grand adventure!

Morgan Update!

Below is a link to the radio program on the exhibition at the Morgan Library and museum here.

Thanks JASNA-NY!

More Morgan Updates

As you know The Morgan Library and Museum's exhibition "A Woman's Wit: Jane Austen's Life and Legacy" features a short film, "The Divine Jane: Reflections on Austen". In conjuction with the film, the Morgan will also broadcast six short films featuring each of the participants.
This week, hear Fran Lebowitz explain why she thinks Austen is popular for all the wrong reasons.

To hear the interview click on this link.
http://www.themorgan.org/video/LebowitzOnAusten.asp

More Morgan Updates

The Morgan Library is featuring Jane Austen's Wit and Wisdom. Here is a schedule of events:

Reminder of upcoming events at the Morgan Library
Wednesday January 20, 2010 6:30 PM Join Rebecca Eaton, Masterpiece executive producer, for a preview of the new Emma adaptation, beginning on PBS January 24th. This event is co-sponsored by our region.

Tuesday January 26, 2010 6:30 PM "From Gothic to Graphic: Adapting Jane Austen Novels" JASNA member and favorite speaker, Juliette Wells will be moderating the discussion.This event is co-sponsored by our region.
Wednesdays January 27, February 10 and 24 3-4:30 PM "Reading Jane Austen" lead by JASNA member and author, Patrice Hannon.
Sunday January 24, 2010 2 PM the 1940 Pride and Prejudice film with Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier.

Friday February 12, 2010 7 PM the Ang Lee Sense and Sensibility film.

Friday March 12, 2010 7 - 8:30 "Dancing with Darcy" led by JASNA member Beverly Francis.

Video at Morgan Library

As you know The Morgan Library & Museum is currently showing Austen writings and Austen related material in their exhibition, "A Woman's Wit: Jane Austen's Life and Legacy." As part of the exhibit, The Morgan created a 15 minute video that is shown in the gallery, with JASNA's Sandy Lerner as one of the participants. If you can't come to the exhibit, (and we hope that you will all make it), then at least you can view the video if you
click here.

A Christmas Rewrite, as Dickens Edits Dickens

A Christmas Rewrite, as Dickens Edits Dickens
By ALISON LEIGH COWAN

Here is part of the article:
Updated, Dec. 4 Alison Cowan and Declan Kiely, a curator at the Morgan Library and Museum, discussed Dickens’s manuscript for “A Christmas Carol” in an interview that aired Dec. 4 on WQXR. Listen online here.

It is an enduring mystery of English literature: What secrets lie entombed beneath the thick scribbles that Charles Dickens made as he wrote, and rewrote, the 66 pages of “A Christmas Carol” in 1843?

The manuscript of this classic holiday ghost story, written in six weeks to raise much-needed cash, is housed at the Morgan Library and Museum in Manhattan, where it bears all of Dickens’s additions and subtractions in his own hand.

On page 3, he inserts “his eyes sparkled” to amplify the portrait of Scrooge’s nephew, whose beneficence is crucial to the plot.

On page 12, where Scrooge takes Marley’s ghost to be evidence not of the supernatural, but of his own indigestion, (“more of gravy than of grave,”) he converts the offending bit of food from being a “spot of mustard” to a less digestible “blot of mustard.”
Scholars, on occasion, have been given access to the manuscript, or facsimiles, to learn more about these shapings and shadings.

Michael Slater, an expert on Victorian literature at the University of London, said he, for one, has always admired Dickens’s decision to trim a waggish diatribe about Hamlet from page 1. He suspects Dickens made the cut after concluding “it was too much of a digression” or just bad for business to be “making too much fun of Shakespeare.’’

For the public, the opportunity to spot such finds has been limited. The manuscript is exhibited each holiday season at the Morgan, but as a matter of expedience, only one page is put on view each year, under glass, in the sumptuous former library of the financier John Pierpont Morgan.
This year, however, the Morgan agreed to allow The New York Times to photograph and display the entire handwritten manuscript online.

Find the rest of the story at the following link:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/a-christmas-rewrite-as-dickens-edits-dickens/?emc=eta1

More Jane Austen at the Morgan!

Here is a link for an interesting slideshow of the Morgan exhibit: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/11/06/arts/20091107-austen-ss_index.html Courtesy of the New York Times

Jane Austen Exhibit at the Morgan

New York Times reports in the ARTS / ART & DESIGN in the November 07, 2009 edition on the Jane Austen exhibit at the Morgan Library. Follow this link: Exhibition Review 'A Woman: At the Morgan, the Jane Austen Her Family Knew for the article by EDWARD ROTHSTEIN "A Woman's Wit: Jane Austen's Life and Legacy," a new exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, includes many personal letters and early manuscripts by the author.

The Morgan Library in NYC is having an exhibit.

The Morgan Library in NYC is having an exhibit. Follow this link for more information: http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?id=22

A Woman's Wit: Jane Austen's Life and Legacy

November 6, 2009, through March 14, 2010

This exhibition explores the life, work, and legacy of Jane Austen (1775–1817), regarded as one of the greatest English novelists. Over the past two decades, numerous successful motion picture and television adaptations of Austen's novels have led to a resurgence of interest in her life and work. Providing a close-up portrait of Austen, this show achieves tangible intimacy with the author through the presentation of her manuscripts and personal letters, which the Morgan has not exhibited in a generation. The Morgan's collection of Austen's manuscripts and letters is the largest of any institution in the world and includes the darkly satiric Lady Susan, the only surviving complete manuscript of any of Austen's novels. The exhibition also includes first and early illustrated editions of Austen's novels as well as contemporary drawings and prints depicting people, places, and events of biographical significance. In addition to the literary influences that inspired and informed Austen's works are responses by later writers as diverse as Auden, Kipling, Nabokov, Scott, Woolf, and Yeats. A highlight of the exhibition is a specially commissioned film of contemporary authors and artists, including Fran Lebowitz, Colm Tóbín, and Cornel West, commenting on Austen's work.A Woman's Wit: Jane Austen's Life and Legacy is generously supported by the Laurence Levine Charitable Fund, Inc. and Sir Thomas R. Moore.

Related Programs: Gallery Talk A Woman's Wit: Jane Austen's Life and Legacy

Friday, November 20, 7 p.m.

Family Program Winter Family Day Celebration Sunday, December 6, 2–5 p.m.

The drawing to the left: Scene from Pride and Prejudice: "The examination of all the letters which Jane had written to her." Isabel Bishop (1902–1988) 20th century Pen and black ink, gray wash, over pencil Gift of Mrs. Robert E. Blum in honor of Charles Ryskamp on his 10th anniversary as director, 1979; 1979.32:15

A Woman's Wit

The Morgan Library Austen Exhibit: A Woman's Wit: Jane Austen's Life and Legacy
from November 6, 2009 to March 14, 2010

Jasna-New York Metro region will be working with The Morgan staff to enhance their educational programs.

The first of these is a Family Day at the Museum on Sunday, December 6, 2009

To learn more about the exhibit click here.