”Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions” in New York

[Ferrea]

The Morgan Library & Museum is hosting an exhibition from June 26 through October 4, 2026. 

 

I just stumbled over this info in an article in The New Yorker. 
 

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For the most part, the art world doesn’t do summer blockbusters. This season, though, a few of New York’s museums are mounting decidedly fun shows that could be big hits. Chief among them is the Morgan Library & Museum’s “Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions” (opening June 26), an exhibition that perfectly bridges the institution’s scholarly approach with mass appeal. The first section of the show looks at the cards’ origins in Renaissance Italy, focussing on an original, hand-painted deck from the fifteenth century, when tarot was still a court game. The second part centers on tarot as a tool of divination and creative inspiration, beginning with the iconic 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith deck and moving on to art works from the twentieth century into the present day.

 

There was a fun illustration that is probably not part of the exhibition but was done by an illustrator for the magazine (Nicholas Stevenson). 

 

 

So, what do we have here? The 2 of Swords, the Hermit and the King of Wands (?), I suppose. And our psychotic psychic (Yayoi Kusama) is holding up the Sun. So mainly it's about us having fun, sharing and feeling free in our expression. But there is a lot of ambivalence, evaluation or perhaps even retreat preventing us from acting on our desire to enrich ourselves through self-directed adventures. Or is the unpredictable King the source of all that hesitation? 

 

Edit: I misinterpreted the Sun as the Lovers first. Adjusted my interpretation accordingly.

 

 

 

Edited 10 hours ago by Ferrea

[Sar]

Would love a deck in this style by mr Stevenson.