Archive • Francis Morrone • Buttondown

Francis Morrone April 2025

The biggest reason I don’t send this newsletter more often than I do is that I try to wait until a full season or so of lectures, tours, etc., has been...

Francis Morrone December 2024–January 2025

December 10, 2024

Hello, This is just a quick end-of-the-year update to let you know about a couple of recently scheduled lecture series I’ll be doing in December and January....

Francis Morrone September–November 2024

September 8, 2024

Here is my fall update. For Scarsdale Adult School, I will be doing a series of six lectures by Zoom, France in America, on the French influence on American...

Francis Morrone Correction

February 25, 2024

Hello again, This is just to say that the Caspar David Friedrich exhibition at the Met that I included in my list of recommendations actually begins in...

Francis Morrone February–May 2024

February 25, 2024

Hello, and Happy Spring (almost), Here is an update on some series and individual talks I am offering in February, March, April, and May. The following...

Francis Morrone September–December 2023

September 11, 2023

On Wednesdays from September 13 to Ocotber 11 I will be offering Baroque, a series of five one-hour lectures, by Zoom, for the 92nd Street Y. These will be...

Francis Morrone March–June 2023

February 27, 2023

Hello, and Happy Spring! My New Year’s resolution for 2023 was to reduce—not by a little but by a lot—the number of lectures and tours I do. Status of the...

Francis Morrone January–February 2023

January 5, 2023

Happy 2023! I want to let you know what I have coming up in the next couple of months. I have two lecture series, both on Wednesday afternoons from January...

Francis Morrone - September–October 2022

September 18, 2022

I hope you are well. This summer we’ve really seen things open up in New York. As I walk the streets of Manhattan, it feels, most of the time, that the city...

Francis Morrone—August 2022

Hello, I hope you are all well and enjoying the summer. As for me, I’ve tried this summer to cut down on tours and lectures so I can catch up on my writing...

Francis Morrone - Tours and Lectures - May–June 2022

Hello, I know I've been bad about sending out these notices in any regular fashion. It's partly that this has been a crazy spring, and partly that, believe...

Francis Morrone September–December 2021

September 9, 2021

Hello, Well, the early summer optimism about the pandemic has, to put it mildly, subsided, and we're in for another season of Zoom. I led an in-person...

Francis Morrone July–August 2021

First things first. When I began this newsletter, I inadvertently used an old email address that I’d set up for some reason I can’t even remember. I did not...

Francis Morrone, May-July 2021

Hello Everyone, When I emailed the first number of this newsletter, in January, I promised I would not clog your in-box with too-frequent emails. It's now...

Francis Morrone, January-March 2021

December 30, 2020

Happy New Year! Some of you will recall that, years ago (early 2000s), I sent out a regular newsletter by email. It listed my schedule of tours and lectures,...