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COSTUME INSTITUTE SPOTLIGHTS HOLLYWOOD DESIGNER GILBERT ADRIAN
Tuesday, February 5, 2002, 5:00 a.m.
The Costume Institute will celebrate one of America's most distinguished stylemakers from cinema's golden years with an unprecedented exhibition of works by Hollywood designer Gilbert Adrian. On view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from May 14 to August 18, 2002, Adrian: American Glamour will feature a selection of more than 100 designs. The sensational and sometimes provocative costumes worn by such legendary Hollywood actresses as Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, and Katharine Hepburn will complement the equally glamorous ensembles of his high fashion career. Drawn from the Museum's Costume Institute, The Brooklyn Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others, the exhibition will present a comprehensive look at Adrian's lifetime of work as an artist, a costume designer, and an American couturier.
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Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman Opens at Metropolitan Museum January 22
Tuesday, January 15, 2002, 5:00 a.m.
The first comprehensive exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's (1453-1519) drawings ever presented in America, Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman, a landmark international loan exhibition, will bring together nearly 120 works by one of the most renowned masters of all time—the very embodiment of the Renaissance ideal of the universal genius.
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Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence
Tuesday, November 27, 2001, 5:00 a.m.
The first major tapestry survey in the United States in 25 years comes to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in spring 2002. This landmark international loan exhibition will feature 45 tapestries woven between 1420 and 1560 in the Netherlands, Italy, and France, from designs by the leading artists of the day – Raphael, Giulio Romano, and Bronzino, among others. The exhibition will also include about 20 preparatory drawings, designs, and cartoon fragments. On view from March 12 through June 19, 2002, Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence will highlight the great tapestry cycles of the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as among the unsung glories of Renaissance art.
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Surrealism: Desire Unbound, First Major Exhibition of International Surrealism in More Than Twenty Years, Documents Revolutionary Movement That Openly Addressed Sexuality in Art
Sunday, November 25, 2001, 5:00 a.m.
One of the most extraordinary artistic and intellectual movements of the 20th century will be explored in Surrealism: Desire Unbound, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art February 6 through May 12, 2002. More than 300 works including paintings, sculpture, photographs, films, poems, manuscripts, and books will explore the first major artistic movement to address openly the topics of love, desire, and various aspects of sexuality.
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Metropolitan Museum Presents First Major Exhibition of Irving Penn Nudes
Wednesday, November 14, 2001, 5:00 a.m.
One of the world's preeminent photographers, Irving Penn is famous for portraiture, still life, and fashion work – but is less well known as a superb photographer of the female nude. Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes, 1949-50, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from January 15 through April 21, 2002, features 60 exquisitely wrought silver and platinum prints in the first exhibition of this work organized by a major museum.
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Photographs by Benjamin Brecknell Turner Present Rural England Through a Victorian Lens at Metropolitan Museum
Wednesday, November 14, 2001, 5:00 a.m.
Approximately 40 exquisite photographs of a bygone era, taken by one of photography's great early artists, will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from January 15 through April 21, 2002. Benjamin Brecknell Turner: Rural England Through a Victorian Lens presents an impressive series of large-format scenes depicting quintessentially English subjects: ruined castles and abbeys; thatched barns, crumbling cottages and half-timbered houses; woodland paths and ancient oaks. Turner's picturesque and poetic images reveal a rough-hewn beauty in rustic subjects and express a moral value found in tradition, nature, and rural life and labor.
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Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi: Father and Daughter Painters in Baroque Italy
Wednesday, November 14, 2001, 5:00 a.m.
Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi: Father and Daughter Painters in Baroque Italy will be the first full-scale exhibition devoted to Caravaggio's most gifted follower, Orazio Gentileschi, and to Orazio's celebrated daughter, Artemisia. On view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from February 14 through May 12, 2002, the exhibition will feature approximately 50 works by Orazio and 35 by Artemisia, and will be the first exhibition to treat these two remarkable artists in depth.
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Daniel Brodsky Elected Trustee of Metropolitan Museum
Tuesday, November 13, 2001, 5:00 a.m.
(November 14, 2001) – Daniel Brodsky has been elected a Trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was announced today by James R. Houghton, Chairman of the Museum's Board of Trustees. The election took place at the November 13 meeting of the Board.
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METROPOLITAN MUSEUM'S ONLINE TIMELINE OF ART HISTORY EXPANDED
Thursday, October 18, 2001, 4:00 a.m.
An expanded version of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History – which can be found on the Museum's Web site (www.metmuseum.org) – is now offered online, as of October 1, 2001. The Timeline of Art History features works of art from the Metropolitan's encyclopedic collections, presenting them in a chronological and geographical format that gives browsers and scholars alike instant access to the art created at any given time in different cultures across the globe. The premiere segment of the Timeline, which was launched in October 2000, featured art of the ancient world, including works dating from 20,000 B.C. through 500 A.D. The newly expanded version – the result of extensive research and writing by a team of curators, editors, and scholars over the past year – carries the Timeline forward to 1400 A.D.
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LULU C. WANG ELECTED A TRUSTEE AT THE METROPOLTIAN MUSEUM
Monday, October 8, 2001, 4:00 a.m.
Lulu C. Wang has been elected to the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was announced today by James R. Houghton, the Museum's Chairman. Mrs. Wang's election took place at the October 9 meeting of the Board.