In this exhibition, we are relying on the information we’re given to try to attain a mythologized goal that is always out of reach.

The Morgan Library & Museum Toward the end of the 19th century, J. Pierpont Morgan—the Gilded Age’s wolf of Wall Street—used some of his wealth to amass a vast collection of books and art.

From the outside, the Morgan Library and Museum doesn't look like a space that would house three Gutenberg Bibles, letters from George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and a manuscript from Mozart.

It took some 60 years for the National Library of Israel to exhibit its collection of Franz Kafka’s letters, books, drawings ...