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Masterpieces of Renaissance Portraiture on View in New Exhibition Opening at Metropolitan Museum
December 21, 2011–March 18, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 5:00 a.m.
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American Cabinetmaker Duncan Phyfe Celebrated in Metropolitan Museum Retrospective ExhibitionDecember 20, 2011–May 6, 2012
Sunday, February 19, 2012, 5:00 a.m.
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Metropolitan Museum Shows Rare Cards of Major League Baseball Players Who Broke the Color Barrier
Through June 17, 2012
Sunday, February 19, 2012, 5:00 a.m.
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Ausstellung zum hundertjährigen Bestehen der graphischen Sammlung des Metropolitan Museum zur Ehrung der Gründungskuratoren
Thursday, February 2, 2012, 11:09 p.m.
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La exposición del Centenario celebra el famoso Departamento de Grabados creado por los conservadores fundadores del Metropolitan Museum
Sunday, January 29, 2012, 8:27 p.m.
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La mostra per il centenario celebra i curatori
e fondatori del rinomato Dipartimento
delle Stampe del Met Museum
Sunday, January 29, 2012, 7:57 p.m.
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Contemporary Artists Explore the Secret Life of Museums and Their Collections in Spies in the House of ArtFebruary 7 – August 26, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 5:00 a.m.
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The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis
November 15, 2011–April 22, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012, 5:00 a.m.
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Exhibition of American Indian Art Now On View at Metropolitan Museum
December 6, 2011 – October 14, 2012
Thursday, January 12, 2012, 5:00 a.m.
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Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche on Display for Holiday Season at Metropolitan Museum
November 25, 2014–January 6, 2015
Thursday, December 15, 2011, 8:30 p.m.
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Elaborately Crafted Eastern European Silver Menorah among Examples of Judaica on View at Metropolitan Museum for Hanukkah
Thursday, December 15, 2011, 8:00 p.m.
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Metropolitan Museum to Open Renovated Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
Opened: November 1, 2011
Tuesday, November 22, 2011, 5:00 a.m.
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Storytelling in Japanese ArtNovember 19, 2011–May 6, 2012
Saturday, November 19, 2011, 5:00 a.m.
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Lisbon's Hebrew BibleOn view November 22, 2011
Thursday, November 17, 2011, 5:00 a.m.
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Victorian Electrotypes on View in New Installation at the Metropolitan MuseumNovember 22, 2011–April 22, 2012
Thursday, November 17, 2011, 5:00 a.m.
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Art in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1515: Paintings and Drawings from the Museum's CollectionsNovember 8, 2011 - February 5, 2012
Friday, November 11, 2011, 5:00 a.m.
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Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche on Display for Holiday Season at Metropolitan Museum
November 22, 2011–January 8, 2012
Tuesday, November 1, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
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The Making of a Collection: Islamic Art at the MetropolitanNovember 1, 2011-February 5, 2012
Monday, October 31, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
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Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe Features 200 Works by European and American Modernists in the Metropolitan Museum's Collection
October 13, 2011–January 2, 2012
Thursday, October 13, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
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Exhibition Celebrating Late Renaissance Master Perino del Vaga at Metropolitan Museum
September 27, 2011–February 5, 2012
Monday, September 26, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi, 1501-1547), a pupil of Raphael, was a leading innovator of the late Renaissance style known as Mannerism, and one of the most influential Italian artists of the 16th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently acquired a painting and a drawing by the master, and they will both be featured in Perino del Vaga in New York Collections, on view from September 27, 2011, through February 5, 2012. The new acquisitions will be seen alongside some 18 drawings by the artist from the Metropolitan Museum, the Morgan Library & Museum, and private collections, as well as a second painting from a New York private collection.
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Major International Loan Exhibition Featuring Greatest Artists in History of Indian Painting Goes on View at Metropolitan Museum in OctoberSeptember 28, 2011 – January 8, 2012
Monday, September 26, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
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Epic Exhibition at Metropolitan Museum Reexamines Masterpieces of African Art in Relation to Historic FiguresSeptember 21, 2011 – January 29, 2012
Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
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Good Humor at the Met—Caricature and Satire Explored in Infinite Jest at the Metropolitan MuseumSeptember 13, 2011–March 4, 2012
Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
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Acclaimed Hong Kong Collection of Ming Loyalist Art On View at Metropolitan Museum This Fall
September 7, 2011 – January 2, 2012
Wednesday, September 7, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
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Schedule of Exhibitions
January - June 2012
Monday, September 5, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
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The 9/11 Peace Story Quilt by Faith Ringgold and New York City Students On View at Metropolitan Museum Beginning August 30
August 30, 2011 – January 22, 2012
Thursday, September 1, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
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Metropolitan Museum Highlights Frans Hals Paintings from Collection in Exhibition on View Beginning July 26
Tuesday, July 26, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds the most important collection of paintings in America by the celebrated Dutch artist Frans Hals (1582/83-1666), whose portraits and genre scenes were famous in his lifetime for their immediacy and dazzling brushwork. Frans Hals in the Metropolitan Museum—on view from July 26, through October 10, 2011—presents 13 paintings by Hals, including two lent from private collections, and several works by other Netherlandish masters.
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Mother India at Metropolitan Museum Features Depictions of the Goddess in Indian Painting
Friday, July 1, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
Devi, the Indian goddess, is the omnipresent embodiment of power and wisdom given expression in all of India’s ancient religions. From the beginnings of figurative representation in early India, she has been the frequent subject of sculpture and a favored subject in later devotional painting. Mother India: The Goddess in Indian Painting, to be presented at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from June 29 through November 27, 2011, will feature 40 works from the Museum’s collection that depict Devi in all her various aspects. Perhaps the most widely worshipped deity in all India, Devi stands alongside Shiva and Vishnu in the first rank of the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain pantheons.
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Alexander McQueen's Iconic Designs in Costume Institute Retrospective at Metropolitan Museum
Tuesday, May 31, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
The spring 2011 Costume Institute exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, is on view May 4 through August 7 (new, extended closing date). The exhibition celebrates the late Mr. McQueen's extraordinary contributions to fashion. From his Central Saint Martins postgraduate collection in 1992 to his final runway presentation, which took place after his death in February 2010, Mr. McQueen challenged and expanded our understanding of fashion beyond utility to a conceptual expression of culture, politics, and identity.
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SCHEDULE OF EXHIBITIONS
MAY 2011 - JANUARY 2012
Monday, May 16, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: Information provided below is subject to change.
To confirm scheduling and dates, call the Communications Department at (212) 570-3951.
CONTACT NUMBER FOR USE IN TEXT IS (212) 535-7710.
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Rarely Seen 18th-Century Pastel Portraits on View in New Exhibition at Metropolitan Museum
Thursday, May 12, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
Pastel quite suddenly became popular throughout Europe in the 18th century, so much so that, by 1750, some 2,500 artists and amateurs were working in pastel in Paris alone. Portraits in pastel were commissioned by all ranks of society, but most enthusiastically by the royal families, their courtiers, and the wealthy middle classes. Although pastel is a drawing material, 18th-century pastel portraits are often highly finished, quite large, brightly colored, and elaborately framed, evoking oil paintings, the medium to which they were invariably compared. The powdery pastel crayons are particularly suited to capturing the fleeting expressions that characterize the most life-like portraits.
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Exposition commémorant le centenaire du célèbre
Cabinet des estampes des conservateurs fondateurs
du Met Museum
Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
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Sculptures by Renowned British Artist Anthony Caro on View at Metropolitan Museum April 26
Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
Sculptures by Anthony Caro (b. 1924)—who is considered the most influential and prolific British sculptor of his generation, and a key figure in the development of modernist sculpture over the last 60 years—will be featured in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2011 installation on The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, opening April 26. The installation will include a selection of sculpture in steel, painted and unpainted, spanning the artist's career to date and highlighting principal aspects of his long career: engagement with form in space, dialogue between sculpture and architecture, and creation of new, abstract analogies for the human figure and landscape.
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Korean Ceramics from the Leeum Collection on View at Metropolitan Museum
Monday, March 28, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
A special loan exhibition focusing on the dynamic art of buncheong ceramics will go on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on April 7. Featuring more than 60 masterpieces from the renowned collection of Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul, Korea—the majority of which have never before been seen in the U.S.—Poetry in Clay: Korean Buncheong Ceramics from Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art will explore the bold and startlingly modern ceramic tradition that flourished in Korea during the 15th and 16th centuries of the Joseon dynasty (1392-1910), as well as its eloquent reinterpretations by today's leading ceramists.
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Rooms with a View, First Exhibition to Focus on Motif of the Open Window in 19th Century Art, at Metropolitan Museum
Thursday, March 24, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
During the Romantic era, the open window appeared either as the sole subject or the main feature in many pictures of interiors that were filled with a poetic play of light and perceptible silence. Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 5 through July 4, 2011, is the first exhibition to focus on this motif as captured by German, Danish, French, and Russian artists around 1810–20. Works in the exhibition range from the initial appearance of the motif in two sepia drawings of about 1805–06 by Caspar David Friedrich to paintings of luminous empty rooms from the late 1840s by Adolph Menzel. The show features 31 oil paintings and 26 works on paper, and consists mostly of generous loans from museums in Germany, Denmark, France, Italy, Austria, Sweden, and the United States.
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Night Vision at Metropolitan Museum Features 20th-Century Photography Made After Dark
Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
Night Vision: Photography After Dark, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 26 through September 18, 2011, will feature photography of the 20th century inspired by the pleasure, danger, and allure of the night. For more than 100 years photographers have been drawn to the challenge of making images after dark, capturing the aesthetic effects of nighttime rain, early-morning fog, shining street lamps, and dimly lit rooms. Modern camera artists have been captivated by glowing skyscrapers, dazzling neon signs, glittering nightlife, and the shadowy realm of the nocturnal underworld. Highlights of the Metropolitan's exhibition include classic night photography of the 1930s-1950s by Berenice Abbott, Bill Brandt, Brassaï, Robert Frank, André Kertész, William Klein, Weegee, and Garry Winogrand, as well as three early photographs by Diane Arbus that have never been shown or published before, and recently acquired photographs by Peter Hujar and Kohei Yoshiyuki.
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Rare Medieval Hebrew Manuscript to be Displayed at Metropolitan Museum
Thursday, March 17, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
The Washington Haggadah—one of the most important illustrated Hebrew manuscripts preserved in an American public collection and an unprecedented loan from the Library of Congress—will be shown at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning April 5, to coincide with the observance of Passover later that month. A Haggadah is the book used at the Passover seder, the ritual meal that commemorates the exodus of the ancient Israelites from Egypt. Although the essential components of the text were established in the second century, the Haggadah was first made into an independent, illustrated book in the Middle Ages. The manuscript will remain on view through June 26.
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After the Gold Rush at Metropolitan Museum Features Contemporary Photographs from the CollectionMarch 22, 2011 – January 2, 2012
Monday, March 7, 2011, 5:00 a.m.
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Richard Serra's First Retrospective Exhibition of Drawings Opens at Metropolitan Museum on April 13
Thursday, March 3, 2011, 5:00 a.m.
The first retrospective of the drawings of American contemporary artist Richard Serra will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 13, 2011, through August 28, 2011. Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective traces the crucial role that drawing has played in Richard Serra's work for more than 40 years. Although Serra is well known
for his large-scale and site-specific sculptures, his work has also changed the practice of drawing. This major exhibition will show how Serra's work has expanded the definition of drawing through innovative techniques, unusual media, monumental scale, and carefully conceived relationships to surrounding spaces. The exhibition, which includes many loans from important European and American collections, features 43 drawings and 28 sketchbooks from the 1970s to the present, as well as four films by the artist and a new, large-scale work completed specifically for this presentation.
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Exhibition of Magnificent Andean Tunics on View at Metropolitan Museum Beginning March 8
Monday, February 28, 2011, 5:00 a.m.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present a special exhibition focusing on the Andean tunic, beginning March 8. Featuring some 30 tunics drawn from the Museum's collection with loans from The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C., The Cleveland Museum of Art, and two private collections, The Andean Tunic, 400 BCE – 1800 CE, will examine the form of the tunic, essentially a type of shirt, which had an important cultural place in Andean South America for centuries. Textiles, a much developed art form there in ancient times, were themselves valued as wealth, and tunics were among the most treasured of them.
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Met Museum's New Installation Positions African Masks with Works by Modern and Contemporary Artists from Africa, Europe, and U.S.March 8 - August 21, 2011
Monday, February 28, 2011, 5:00 a.m.
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Guitar Heroes Exhibition, Opening February 9, to Feature Extraordinary Instruments Created by Three Legendary Modern-day Master Craftsmen
Thursday, February 3, 2011, 5:00 a.m.
Three New York master luthiers, renowned for their hand-carved stringed instruments—particularly their archtop guitars, which have been sought after by many of the most important guitarists of the last century—will be the subject of Guitar Heroes: Legendary Craftsmen from Italy to New York, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from February 9 through July 4, 2011. Featuring the extraordinary guitars of John D'Angelico, James D'Aquisto, and John Monteleone, this unprecedented exhibition of approximately 80 musical instruments will focus on the work of these modern-day master craftsmen and their roots in a long tradition of stringed instrument-making that has thrived for more than 400 years and that was first brought to New York from Italy around the turn of the 20th century.
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Cézanne's Card Players Series United in Landmark Exhibition at Metropolitan Museum
Wednesday, February 2, 2011, 5:00 a.m.
Cézanne's Card Players, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning February 9, 2011, will unite works from the famous series by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), bringing together a majority of the related paintings, oil studies, and drawings. A select group of portraits of peasants, several of whom appear in the Card Players compositions, will also be included in this landmark exhibition, the first devoted to the subject. Created in the 1890s while the artist was living at his family's estate outside Aix-en-Provence, these images capture the character Cézanne admired in the people of the region. Together the works chart the development of the series as Cézanne strove to achieve the most powerful expression of his motif.
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International Loan Exhibition of Forbidden City Treasures Goes on View at Metropolitan Museum February 1
Sunday, January 30, 2011, 5:00 a.m.
"When China's last emperor, Puyi, left the Forbidden City in 1924, the doors closed on a secluded compound of pavilions and gardens deep within the palace. Filled with exquisite objects personally commissioned by the Qianlong emperor, the complex of lavish buildings and thoughtful landscaping lay dormant for decades."
—From Juanqinzhai in the Qianlong Garden, The Forbidden City, Beijing
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SCHEDULE OF EXHIBITIONS
Monday, January 17, 2011, 5:00 a.m.
EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: Information provided below is subject to change. To confirm scheduling and dates, call the Communications Department at (212) 570-3951. CONTACT NUMBER FOR USE IN TEXT IS (212) 535-7710.
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Sculptural Installations by Contemporary Icelandic Artist Katrin Sigurdardottir on View October 19 at Metropolitan Museum
Monday, January 17, 2011, 5:00 a.m.
Katrin Sigurdardottir at the Met is an exhibition of two new sculptural installations created specifically for the Metropolitan by Sigurdardottir, an Icelandic artist (born in 1967), who lives and works in New York City and Reykjavik. Sigurdardottir is known for her highly detailed renditions of places, both real and fictional, that often incorporate an element of surprise.
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Eclectic Centennial Exhibition of 1910s Photography,"Our Future Is In The Air," on View at Metropolitan Museum Beginning November 10
Thursday, January 13, 2011, 5:00 a.m.
The 1910s—a period remembered for "The Great War," Einstein's theory of relativity, the Russian Revolution, and the birth of Hollywood—was a dynamic and tumultuous decade that ushered in the modern era. This new age—as it was captured by the quintessentially modern art of photography—will be the subject of the exhibition
"Our Future Is In The Air": Photographs from the 1910s, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from November 10, 2010, through April 10, 2011.
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Original Color Photographs by Stieglitz and Steichen on View at Metropolitan Museum for One Week Only, January 25-30
Tuesday, January 11, 2011, 5:00 a.m.
For the first time in more than 25 years, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will display five of its original Autochromes by Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz for one week only—January 25-30, 2011—as part of the current exhibition Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand. Invented by Auguste and Louis Lumière in 1907, Autochromes are one-of-a-kind color transparencies that are seductively beautiful when backlit.
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Restored Renaissance Masterpiece on View in New Installation at Metropolitan Museum
Monday, December 13, 2010, 5:00 a.m.
Filippino Lippi (1457-1504) is one of the great artists of 15th-century Florence. Among his principal patrons was the wealthy banker Filippo Strozzi (1428–1491), who in 1487 contracted the artist to decorate his funerary chapel in Santa Maria Novella with an outstanding cycle of frescoes. Around the same time, Strozzi also commissioned a Madonna and Child for his villa at Santuccio, west of the city. This work was acquired from the Duveen firm in 1928 by Jules Bache and was bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum in 1949. In preparation for an exhibition on the artist that will be held in Rome next year, the picture was taken to conservation for examination this fall. A test cleaning revealed that beneath a thick, discolored varnish there was a beautifully preserved, richly colored painting. It emerged that the varnish had been artificially toned to create an almost monochromatic appearance—an amber-colored uniformity that conformed to the idea of how an Old Master should appear. So striking is the transformation that the picture seems a new acquisition.
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New Installation Thinking Outside the Box to Feature Cabinets, Caskets, and Cases from Metropolitan Museum's Collection
Thursday, December 2, 2010, 5:00 a.m.
Thinking Outside the Box: European Cabinets, Caskets, and Cases from the Permanent Collection (1500–1900)—on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning December 7, 2010— will feature 100 works selected from the Museum's Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts. The objects featured in this installation will range from strongboxes to travel cases and from containers for tea or tobacco to storage boxes for toiletries or silverware. These lidded pieces, some of which have not been on display for many years, are made in a large variety of shapes and sizes, and of many different materials, and were created by mostly unknown artists, craftsmen, and amateurs. Viewed together, these works reflect changes in social customs as well as the evolution of styles over four centuries. Many are precious works of art that were collected in their own right.