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Article: Morgan Library, a Last Bastion, Shows Off High-Art Treasures.(Arts&Entertainment)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- July 15, 2002
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Byline: Mario Naves
You can count the number of New York museums still committed to the cause of high art on the fingers of one hand. Perhaps the most enduring of those fingers is the Morgan Library. The Morgan has always been a gem, of course; New York's cultural heritage would be poorer without it. Yet now, at a time when many of our museums are pursuing agendas that smack of P.T. Barnum, the Morgan, by sticking to its aesthetic guns, has taken on renewed importance. I won't go so far as to claim that it's helping to keep the barbarians from the gate-though there are days when it sure feels like it-but the Morgan does remind us that art is something to be ...
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