The Morgan Library and Museum is one of the most impressive, yet intimate and rarefied museums in New York City, so some of its admirers were not enthusiastic when it announced its plan to expand and closed down more than three years ago. Happily, when the library reopened on April 29, it was clear that the enlargement has not affected the intimacy that visitors have always found so pleasing.
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Renzo Piano, the Paris- and Genoa-based architect of this ...