Schedule of Exhibitions
Through June 2014

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NEW AND UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

Early American Guitars: The Instruments of C. F. Martin
January 14–December 7, 2014

Christian Friedrich Martin, founder of the great American guitar firm C. F. Martin & Co., was the son of a cabinet maker in Markneukirchen, Saxony. Martin learned to build instruments with the famed Johann Georg Stauffer in Vienna. Due to the restrictive guilds in Markneukirchen, Martin moved to the United States in 1833, settling first in New York City and moving later to Nazareth, Pennsylvania. In the United States, Martin encountered the Spanish style guitar and incorporated elements from that tradition into his own Viennese style of instrument construction. The result was a new form of the guitar, a style that would become important as a basis for other American makers of the instrument. The exhibition will include approximately 35 instruments from the Martin Museum in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, the Metropolitan Museum, and several private collections.
The exhibition is made possible by The Martin Guitar Company.

Antonio Canova: The Seven Last Works 
January 22–April 27, 2014

Antonio Canova (1757-1822), the greatest of all neoclassical sculptors, remains famous above all for the elegant nude mythological subjects that he carved exquisitely in marble. But he also worked in a deeply serious, deceptively simple style. This less familiar Canova is revealed in an extraordinary series of full-scale plaster models illustrating episodes from the Old and New Testaments. Such models, used to review his compositions before they were transferred into stone, were a distinctive feature of his sculptural practice. These Biblical scenes were made in connection with a project for 32 low reliefs that were to adorn the Tempio Canoviano, the church in his home town Possagno, which later became the artist’s mausoleum. He completed only seven models before his death. Six come from the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice, and one from the Gipsoteca in Possagno.
Newly restored, they will all be lent for the first time to the United States. Drawing inspiration from ancient sculpture and early Renaissance masters, the models are striking for the marked linearity of the figures, arranged in brilliantly syncopated compositions. They constitute Canova’s last, profoundly moving masterworks.
The exhibition is made possible in part by Hester Diamond and Jon and Barbara Landau.

Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris
January 29–May 4, 2014

Beloved for his pictures of “Old Paris,” made at the very moment when the city was radically transformed during the Second Empire, Charles Marville (1813-1879) was in fact a versatile and gifted photographer who worked in many genres, from romantic portraits and artistic studies in the 1850s to compelling images of cloud-filled skies and the scenic parks, street furniture, and modern construction of “New Paris” in the 1860s and ‘70s. This exhibition and its accompanying catalogue, which include both icons and little-known works, are the first to examine Marville’s life and career in their entirety.
The exhibition is made possible in part by Jennifer S. and Philip F. Maritz.
The exhibition was organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Accompanied by a catalogue.

Making Pottery Art: The Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection of French Ceramics (ca. 1880-1910)
February 4–August 18, 2014

Technically experimental and aesthetically ambitious, the vases made by French potters in the years around 1900 pushed the boundaries of the ceramic medium. The recently acquired Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection of European Art Pottery includes pieces by the master ceramists Ernest Chaplet, Auguste Delaherche, and Jean Carriès, works of imposing size, beautiful in shape and dazzling in their glazes. These works will be shown with others that inspired them, ranging from Asian ceramics to German stoneware.

The Flowering of Edo Period Painting: Japanese Masterworks from the Feinberg Collection
February 1–September 7, 2014

This exhibition draws on the holdings of noted American collectors Robert and Betsy Feinberg, who have created one of the outstanding private collections of Edo period painting outside of Japan. The exhibition consists of 93 works of Japanese painting, including 12 sets of folding screens and a number of hanging scrolls. There will be two complete rotations, each exhibiting about 45 works.
The exhibition is made possible by The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation Fund.

Lucas Samaras: Offerings from a Restless Soul
February 24–June 1, 2014

Designed in collaboration with the artist, the installation Lucas Samaras: Offerings from a Restless Soul features more than 60 works drawn from The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s rich collection of the highly idiosyncratic body of work made by Lucas Samaras. The Metropolitan Museum’s presentation includes a new gift of 16 objects ranging from Samaras’ abstract work of the 1960s to his recent digitally based pieces.

Radiant Light: Stained Glass from Canterbury Cathedral
February 25–May 18, 2014

This exhibition of stained glass from England’s historic Canterbury Cathedral features six Romanesque-period windows that have never left the cathedral precincts since their creation in 1178-80. The near life-size figures—masterpieces of Romanesque art—were part of an original cycle of 86 ancestors of Christ, the most comprehensive stained-glass cycle known in art history.
The exhibition is made possible by the Ruddock Foundation for the Arts.

The Passions of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
March 10–May 26, 2014

Featuring about 150 works, including sculptures, paintings, and drawings, will be organized around the major projects that Carpeaux undertook during his brief and stormy career. His genius for portraiture will shine particularly, and there will be groupings of drawings and models to trace the evolution of such masterpieces in marble as the Musée d’Orsay’s Prince Impérial with the Dog Nero and the Metropolitan Museum’s own Ugolino and His Sons.
The exhibition is made possible by the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation.
Additional support is provided by the Gail and Parker Gilbert Fund and the Diane W. and James E. Burke Fund.
The exhibition was organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Musée d’Orsay.
Accompanied by a catalogue.

Carpets of the East in Paintings from the West
March 11–June 29, 2014

From as early as the 14th century, oriental carpets were depicted frequently in European paintings. This exhibition will show different types of Islamic carpets paired with counterpart examples in Dutch paintings of the 17th century, a period when oriental carpets were widespread in the West and became a popular theme for European painters. All artworks are from the Museum’s collection.
The exhibition is made possible by The Hagop Kevorkian Fund

Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia, 5th to 8th Century 
April 14–July 27, 2014

This exhibition explores the sculptural traditions of the Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms of early Southeast Asia, spanning the fifth to eighth century. It will present the results of recent research in art history and archaeology, which have made it possible to define the cultural parameters of early Southeast Asia, a region that created some of the most exquisite sculpture of the Hindu-Buddhist world. 
The exhibition is made possible by the Placido Arango Fund, the Fred Eychaner Fund, the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundation, the
E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. 
Additional support is provided by Jim Thompson America, Inc. and Bangkok Broadcasting & T.V. Co., Ltd.
Accompanied by a catalogue.
Press Preview: Monday, April 7, 10:00 a.m.–noon

Goya and the Altamira Family
April 22–August 3, 2014

This exhibition features Goya’s four portraits of members of the Altamira family, including the so-called Boy in Red, one of the Metropolitan Museum’s most beloved Old Master paintings. Also on view will be a fifth Altamira portrait, by Agustín Esteve. This will be the first time these family portraits—now dispersed in public and private collections in Spain and the United States—will be seen together as a group. 
The exhibition is made possible by the Placido Arango Fund.
It was organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art with the assistance of the Consulate of Spain in New York.
Accompanied by a Bulletin.
Press Preview: Monday, April 21, 10:00 a.m.–noon

Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy—Selections from the Collection of Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang
April 29–August 17, 2014

The exhibition will feature more than 40 outstanding examples of calligraphy from the collection of Jerry Yang and his wife, Akiko Yamazaki, created by leading artists of the Yuan (1271-1368), Ming (1368-1644), and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties. The selection of calligraphies and their interpretation in the galleries are intended to speak to beginners and specialists alike, using artworks of the highest quality to introduce key concepts of format, script type, and style. Some of the most notable works are a standard script transcription of a Buddhist sutra by Zhao Mengfu (1254-1322); a clerical script transcription of the Thousand Character Essay in an 85-leaf album by Wen Peng (1498-1573); a powerful cursive writing by Xiong Tingbi (1569-1625), a Ming general charged with defending the Great Wall; a cluster of works by 17th-century Ming loyalists; and an important group of 19th-century pieces by the leading “Metal and Stone School” masters, who based their calligraphy on the archaic scripts found on bronze vessels and monumental stone steles.
Press Preview: Monday, April 28, 10:00 a.m.–noon 

The Roof Garden Commission: Dan Graham with Günther Vogt
April 29–November 2, 2014

American artist Dan Graham will create a site-specific installation atop The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden—the second in a new series of commissions for the outdoor site. The installation will comprise one of Graham's unique steel and glass pavilions—structures for which he has been renowned since the early 1980s—set within a specially engineered landscape designed in collaboration with Swiss landscape architect Günther Vogt. Constructed of hedge rows and curves of two-way mirrored glass, the pavilion will be both transparent and reflective, creating a changing and visually complex environment for visitors.
The exhibition is made possible by Bloomberg.
Additional support is provided by Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky.
Accompanied by a publication.
Press Preview: Monday, April 28, 10:00 a.m.–noon (weather permitting)

Charles James: Beyond Fashion
May 8–August 10, 2014

The Costume Institute’s new Anna Wintour Costume Center will open on May 8 with an inaugural exhibition examining the career of legendary 20th-century Anglo-American couturier Charles James (1906-1978). James’s design process will be explored focusing on his use of sculptural, scientific, and mathematical approaches to construct revolutionary ball gowns and innovative tailoring that continue to influence designers today. Approximately 75 of James’s most notable designs will be presented in two locations–the new Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Gallery and the Carl and Iris Barrel Apfel Gallery in the Anna Wintour Costume Center as well as special exhibition galleries on the Museum’s first floor. The latter galleries will spotlight the glamour and architecture of James’ ball gowns from the 1940s through 1950s, while the former will dramatize James’ biography via archival pieces including sketches, patterns, swatches, ephemera, and partially completed works. Video animations in both locations will illustrate how James created anatomically considered dresses that sculpted and reconfigured the female form.
The exhibition is made possible by AERIN.
Additional support is provided by Condé Nast.
Accompanied by a catalogue.
Press Preview: Monday, May 5

Unique by Design: Contemporary Jewelry in the Donna Schneier Collection 
May 13–August 31, 2014

A selection of approximately 100 pieces of jewelry, dating from 1960 to the present, drawn from The Donna Schneier Collection, which was given to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2007. The exhibition will provide a look at the international contemporary jewelry field, with works by approximately 76 artists from more than a dozen countries.
Press Preview: Monday, May 12, 10:00 a.m.–noon

Italian Renaissance Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection
May 12–September 1, 2014

This exhibition features masterpieces of Central and Southern Italian drawing spanning the 15th and 16th centuries. Among the 45 works, Florentine drawings will be especially well represented by such celebrated Renaissance masters as Leonardo da Vinci and Antonio Pollaiuolo, while among the Southern Italian examples is a rare sheet by Antonello da Messina. Explorations of the human form through figure studies and portraits, as well as expansive compositional sketches for biblical and mythological narratives, present a wide spectrum of drawing types and subjects, both sacred and secular. The ensemble will highlight a broad range of drawing techniques and functions, from rapid preliminary sketches, sheets employed for transferring designs, and pages from sketchbooks to highly polished drawings intended for patrons. The exhibition will explore the evolving role of the medium during this dynamic period in which drawings were increasingly valued by contemporaries as expressions of artists’ creative processes and as highly prized objects worthy of collecting. Illustrating the relationship between theory and practice, the drawings will be considered in the context of 15th- and 16th-century treatises, which lend a contemporary voice to developments in technique and medium, as well as the role of drawing during the Renaissance.

The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy: British Art and Design from the Metropolitan’s Collection
May 20–October 26, 2014

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, founded in London in 1848 by seven young artists and writers, was a creative watershed.  Rebelling against academic convention, its members sought to revitalize painting by returning to a purity and profundity they admired in medieval and early Renaissance art. Although the Brotherhood dissolved by 1853, its members and their adherents continued to innovate. This exhibition will bring together approximately 30 works in a range of media from across the Metropolitan’s collections, exploring the development of Pre-Raphaelitism and its impact on British art and design from about 1860 to 1900. The focus will be on works created by the key figures Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, as they helped inaugurate Aestheticism and the Arts and Crafts Movement. A rich assortment of paintings, drawings, and decorative objects, some of them rarely on view and united here for the first time, will illuminate their shared pursuit of new ideals of beauty extending across the fine and applied arts. At a moment of renewed appreciation for British art of the later 19th century, the exhibition will highlight and consider afresh the Metropolitan Museum’s holdings in this important area.
The exhibition is made possible by the Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust.
Accompanied by a brochure.
Press Preview: Monday, May 19, 10:00 a.m.–noon

Garry Winogrand
June 27–September 21, 2014

Garry Winogrand (1928-1984) is widely considered one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. This retrospective will feature approximately 150 of the artist’s best-known photographs from his 30-year career with the camera. In both the content of his photographs and his dynamic visual style, Winogrand emerged from the 1950s to become one of the principal voices of the eruptive 1960s and early 1970s. His work simultaneously expresses the hope and buoyancy of the decades after World War II as well as a powerful anxiety. In picture after picture, Winogrand presents an America that shines with possibility even as it threatens to spin out of control. Organized for SFMoMA by photographer and author Leo Rubinfien (a protégé of Winogrand in the 1970s), the show seeks to reappraise Winogrand’s photographs for the first time since 1989.
The exhibition is jointly organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. The international tour of this exhibition is sponsored by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Leadership support is provided by Randi and Bob Fisher.
In New York, the exhibition is made possible by the Blavatnik Family Foundation. Additional support is provided by The Daniel and Estrellita Brodsky Foundation.
Press Preview: Thursday, June 26, 10:00 a.m.–noon

CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS

The American West in Bronze, 1850-1925 
December 18, 2013–April 13, 2014

This exhibition of 65 bronze sculptures by 28 artists will be the first to examine broadly sculpture’s role in the socio-cultural transformation of the American West between the years 1850 and 1925. Representations of American Indians, cowboys and cavalry, pioneers and prospectors, and animals of the plains and mountains served as visual metaphors for the Old West and, as such, were collected eagerly by an urban clientele. The exhibition will explore the aesthetic and cultural impulses behind the creation of statuettes with American western themes based on historical fact, mythologized fiction, or, most often, something in between. Among the artists represented are Frederic Remington, Charles M. Russell, and Paul Manship.
The exhibition is made possible by The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundation, the Terra Foundation for American Art, and the Enterprise Holdings Endowment.
It was organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in collaboration with the Denver Art Museum.
Accompanied by a catalogue.  

Cleopatra’s Needle 
December 3, 2013–June 8, 2014 

The exhibition will coincide with an extensive program by the Central Park Conservancy to conserve the obelisk of Thutmose III, popularly known as “Cleopatra’s Needle.” Relying primarily on the Metropolitan’s own collection enhanced with several important loans from local museums and private lenders, the exhibition will explore the meaning of obelisks in ancient Egyptian divine and funerary cults and will consider how these massive monuments were created and erected. An equally important part of the presentation will show the importance of this ancient architectural form in western culture and how a long-standing fascination with obelisks ultimately led to the erection of the one in Central Park. This portion of the exhibition will be illustrated through a selection of paintings, prints, textiles, and other objects from the departments of European Paintings, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Drawings and Prints, and the American Wing.
The exhibition is made possible by Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman.

The Nelson A. Rockefeller Vision: In Pursuit of the Best in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
October 8, 2013–October 5, 2014 

The Museum’s Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and  the Americas (AAOA) celebrates the genesis of its permanent collection with this exhibition. It is organized to mark the 60th anniversary of the establishment of The Museum of Primitive Art, the direct precursor to AAOA. The Museum of Primitive Art was a pioneering cultural institution that featured Nelson Rockefeller’s non-Western art collection. The announcement by Rockefeller of an agreement to transfer his collection to the Metropolitan was made in 1969 and in January 1982 the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing opened to the public.  The exhibition highlights some 50 masterpieces and many unpublished documents selected from the more than 3,000 Rockefeller gifts encompassing three areas—Africa, Oceania, and the Americas; it will reveal Mr. Rockefeller’s vision for The Museum of Primitive Art, the first institution dedicated entirely to the artistic excellence of the arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.
The exhibition is made possible by the Friends of the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.

Feathered Walls: Hangings from Ancient Peru 
September 16, 2013–May 12, 2014 

Ten spectacular feather panels—probably hangings— made by the Wari peoples of southern Peru between about 700 and 1000 comprise this installation.  Made of finely woven cotton cloth and measuring about seven by two feet on average, the panels are completely covered with the small iridescent body feathers of the blue and yellow macaw in an arresting design of large rectangles. They rank among the most luxurious and unusual works created by textile artists in Peru prior to the Spanish conquest in 1532. 
The exhibition is made possible by the Friends of the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.

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