50 Years at the Morgan Library featuring William Voelkle
b'From the shoemakers of the Black forest to J.P. Morgan\\u2019s mansion, today William \\u201cBill\\u201d Voelkle reflects on his fifty-year career at the Morgan Library and Museum with host Sandra Hindman. They discuss his early interest in science and mathematics as well as the Northern Renaissance course that changed his life. Voelkle\\u2019s early work at Columbia University with Meyer Schapiro and Julius Held, and later his acquisition of an unexpected but cherished position at the Morgan Library and Museum are just the beginning of the conversation, which covers everything from Bill\\u2019s favorite exhibition, to the most unusual and stunning manuscripts, to the origins of CORSAIR, the Morgan\\u2019s Online Collection Catalog. How the Morgan Library changed over Bill\\u2019s long and prestigious career, including the institution\\u2019s buying and collecting practices, is a major focus of their conversation.\\xa0\\nThis conversation was recorded in New York on January 28, 2020.'