Is it a luxury or a challenge to organize a museum show around a single masterpiece? It’s a bit of both, according to John Marciari, director of curatorial affairs at New York’s Morgan Library and Museum, as the venue prepares to open “Caravaggio’s Boy with a Basket of Fruit in Focus” on January 16.
As the title suggests, the show is built around the titular Caravaggio, which itself is a landmark loan from the Galleria Borghese in Rome, through a partnership with the Foundation for Italian Art and Culture (FIAC).
