SEE: How to use Zoom: 15 tips and tricks (free TechRepublic PDF)Īnd while, ideally, it might be easiest to just use your own real background, it still looks nicer to have something a bit neater than your own messy office or kitchen visible. Even if you end up craving waffles all day, just like her character on Parks and Recreation. Although sometimes, admittedly, sitting at Leslie Knope’s desk in Pawnee, Indiana, is just the ticket. Because sometimes you really don’t want to make a business call from the Batcave. And learned how easy it is to swap out our real background with a virtual one.īut it’s not that simple to choose one that looks like it’s a real office or living room.

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New Acquisition: Ars moriendi Blockbook.

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Following the American Expansion through Martin Egan's Eyes.Color and Texture: An exploration of Ashley Bryan's collage papers.Performing Femininity: Saul Steinberg's Depictions of Women.Portrait of a Pigment: The Magic of Saffron.The Belle da Costa Greene Professional Papers at the Morgan.Allegorical depictions of the arts and sciences alternate with portraits of figures from Socrates to Michelangelo, identifying the library as a place for the preservation of art and ideas. Siddons Mowbray adorn the upper reaches of the room, and the signs of the zodiac are depicted in the ceiling's hexagonal spandrels. Two staircases, concealed behind bookcases, provide access to the balconies.

The sixteenth-century Netherlandish tapestry over the mantelpiece depicts avarice, one of the seven deadly sins, personified by the mythological King Midas. With its three-story inlaid walnut bookshelves and magnificent ceiling, the East Room was designed as a treasury for Pierpont Morgan's remarkable collection of rare printed books. The East Room is one of the grandest spaces in the Morgan, and maybe even in all of New York. Maybe you are wearing sweatpants on your Zoom call, but you are doing it just a few feet away from a Gutenberg Bible. J Pierpont Morgan’s Library: The East Room.

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