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Jeff Koons on the roof : the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, April 22-October 26, 2008
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Gayle Perkins Atkins named elective trustee at Metropolitan Museum
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Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute salutes power of superheroes imagery in fashion
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Rhythms of modern life: British prints 1914 - 1939
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Sumptuous Italian Renaissance works celebrating art and love in new exhibition at Metropolitan Museum
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Past, present and future of the period room: a symposium
No full textBrochure for a symposium held Feb. 15, 2008 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Wrightsman Galleries have undergone extensive renovations to improve the presentation of the Museum's renowned collection of French furniture and related decorative arts. This one-day symposium, held in conjunction with the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative arts, Design and culture, brings together leading international scholars to discuss a variety of topics, including the historical background, development, and the role of the period room in Europe and America, as well as issues concerning the design, material, and conservation for the recent renovation
Landscapes clear and radiant : the art of Wang Hui (1632-1717) / Wen C. Fong, Chin-Sung Chang, and Maxwell K. Hearn ; edited by Maxwell K. Hearn
No full textCatalog of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, Sept. 9, 2008-Jan. 4, 2009 ; Includes bibliographical references and index ; Director's Foreword / Philippe de Montebello -- Acknowledgments / Maxwell K. Hearn -- Preface / Maxwell K. Hearn -- Wang Hui and Repossessing the Past / Wen C. Fong -- Wang Hui: The Evolution of a Master Landscapist / Chin-Sung Chang -- Art Creates History: Wang Hui and The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour / Maxwell K. Hearn -- Catalogue: Inscriptions, Signatures, and Seals / Shi-Yee Liu ; "Wang Hui, the most celebrated painter of late-seventeenth-century China, played a key role both in reinvigorating past traditions of landscape painting and in establishing the stylistic foundations for the imperially sponsored art of the Qing court. Drawing upon his protean talent and immense ambition, Wang developed an all-embracing synthesis of historical landscape styles that constituted one of the greatest artistic innovations of late imperial China." "This comprehensive study of the painter, the first published in English, features three essays that together consider his life and career, his artistic achievements, and his masterwork - the series of twelve monumental scrolls depicting the Kangxi emperor's Southern Inspection Tour of 1689. The first essay, by Wen C. Fong, closely examines Wang Hui's genius for "repossessing the past," his ability to engage in an inventive dialogue with previous masters and to absorb their stylistic personae while making works that were distinctly his own. Chin-Sung Chang next traces the entire trajectory of Wang's development as an artist, from his precocious youth in the village of Yushan, through growing local and national fame - first as a copyist, then as the creator of groundbreaking panoramic landscapes - to the ultimate confirmation of his stature with the commission to direct the Southern Inspection Tour project. Focusing on this extraordinary eight-year-long effort, Maxwell K. Hearn's essay discusses the contemporary sources for the scrolls, the working methods of Wang and his assistants (comparing drafts with finished versions), and the artistic innovations reflected in these imposing works, the extant examples of which measure more than two feet high and from forty-six to eighty-six feet long." "This publication accompanies the exhibition "Landscapes Clear and Radiant: The Art of Wang Hui (1632-1717)," held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from September 9, 2008, through January 4, 2009."--BOOK JACKE
Beyond Babylon: Art, trade, and diplomacy in the second millennium b.c.
No full textBrochure for a symposium held Dec. 18 and Dec. 19, 2008 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This two-day symposium gathers leading international scholars to discuss a variety of topics related to the exhibition, Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C., which focuses on the extraordinary art created as a result of a sophisticated network of interaction that developed among kings, diplomats, merchants, and others in the ancient Near East