Exhibitions at The Met: Early 2009
Six Upcoming Shows Scheduled for The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibitions at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in early 2009 deal with Old Master to Impressionist drawings, Pierre Bonnard, French sculpture, Korean art and photography.
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has six special exhibitions scheduled for the first half of 2009 that cover Old Master to Impressionist drawings, French painting and sculpture, Korean art and American photography.
- Raphael to Renoir: Drawings from the Collection of Jean Bonna (January 21-April 26, 2009) features some 120 Italian, French and Northern European drawings from the Renaissance to the late 19th Century from a private Swiss collection, including works by Raphael, Andrea del Sarto, Claude Lorrain, Jean-Antoine Watteau, Canaletto, Théodore Géricault, Eugène Delacroix, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
- Pierre Bonnard: Still Life and the Late Interiors (January 27-April 19, 2009) explores the interiors and still-life imagery of Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) late in his career. The paintings, drawings and watercolors on view date from 1923 to 1947, representing Bonnard's relative isolation in his house in the southern French town of Le Cannet. It was during this period that the early modernist created his finest works characterized by incredible color and light.
- Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard (February 3-May 25, 2009) considers the influence of some 9000 images on the oeuvre of the American photographer (1903-1975). Hundreds of postcards from the artist's massive collection, now part of the Metropolitan Museum's Walker Evans Archive, are displayed with a selection of photographs to demonstrate the impact of American postcard imagery on Evan's work. Included in the show are a dozen pictures that the artist printed on postcard-format photographic paper in 1936.
- Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution (February 24-May 24, 2009) is the first museum exhibition to explore the French tradition of bronze sculpture in four decades. Some 125 portrait busts, statuettes and monuments come from the late Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo and Neoclassical periods. Artists whose works are on display include Germain Pilon, Barthélemy Prieur, Michel Anguier, François Girardon, Antoine Coysevox, Jean-Baptiste Pigalle and Jean-Antoine Houdon.
- Korean Art Under Confucian Kings, ca. 1400-1600 (March 17-June 21, 2009) is the first in a series of presentations focusing on specific periods in the history of Korean art. Some 50 secular and religious paintings, lacquers, porcelains, sculptures and metal works in this international loan exhibition were created for privileged patrons during the first 200 years of Choson rule (1392-1910). Together they describe the artistic conventions of Korea's Neo-Confucian elite.
- The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984 (April 21-August 2, 2009) displays photographs by the loosely knit group of New York artists in the late 20th Century. Images by Richard Prince and Cindy Sherman demonstrate how B movies and magazine advertising determined the postwar American sense of identity. Louise Lawlor and Sherrie Levine examine myths and legends of modern art and their relation to the museum and art history. The photographs are supplemented by works in other media.
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