Museum report·New York
Morgan Library Show Reveals Poet John Ashbery's Private Eye for Art
A Morgan Library & Museum exhibition surveys the art collection of poet John Ashbery, celebrated as much for his collecting as for his verse. The show examines how visual art shaped his writing.

The Morgan Library & Museum is showing the art collection of John Ashbery, the American poet who assembled a significant collection of modern and contemporary art alongside his literary career. The exhibition reviews Ashbery's tastes as a collector and considers how painters and pictures fed his poetry. It offers a rare public view of a writer's private eye, linking two of New York's great twentieth-century scenes.


