Claire Gilman
Claire Gilman recently joined the Morgan Library and Museum as Acquavella Curator and Department Head of Modern and Contemporary Drawings. Before that, she was Chief Curator at the Drawing Center in New York where she organized more than fifty exhibitions of artists such as Huguette Caland, Rashid Johnson, and Cecily Brown. She co-curated The Pencil Is a Key: Drawings by Incarcerated Artists (2019). Her exhibition, Lisa Yuskavage: Drawings, will open at the Morgan in June 2026. Her book Drawing in the Present Tense, co-authored with Roger Malbert, was recently published by Thames and Hudson.
Not surprisingly, 8:00 a.m. begins with people waking up, in some cases too late, more often too early, and occasionally right on time. Alarm clocks and watches, hourglasses and timers; people stumbling out of their own and other people’s beds; breakfasts being made and consumed; people preparing and drinking coffee; kids hurrying off to school; even some unlucky few reporting to the office.
