Opening: 26 APRIL 2011 - Closing: 18 SEPTEMBER 2011
For more than 100 years, Photographers have been drawn to the Challenge of making images After-Dark,
capturing the Aesthetic-Effects
Opening: 13 APRIL 2011 - Closing: 28 AUGUST 2011
There
is very little to be said about Minimalism.
But, in the case of some of
Opening: 1 FEBRUARY 2011 - Closing: 1 MAY 2011
The Emperor’s
Private-Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden-City
When next you
visit Beijing & the Forbidden-City—entering
through an Historic-Portal, crested with the Portrait of Chairman Mao!—you
may well see more of its Treasures
than are now on...
Opening: 9 FEBRUARY 2011 - Closing: 4 JULY 2011
GUITAR HEROES: Legendary Craftsmen from
Italy to New York
Three
New York Master-Luthiers—renowned for their hand-carved stringed-instruments,
particularly their Archtop-Guitars—now
have the Spotlight at the Met-Museum....
Opening: 8 MARCH 2011 - Closing: 18 SEPTEMBER 2011
THE ANDEAN-TUNIC, 400 BCE-1800 CE
This
fascinating new exhibition at the Met had...
Opening: 5 APRIL 2011 - Closing: 4 JULY 2011
The Open-Window in
the 19th-Century
This is a very unusual
exhibition for the Met Museum & one that is almost Jewel-Like in the glowing colors that flood into the often
Opening: 22 MARCH 2011 - Closing: 2 JANUARY 2012
AFTER THE GOLD RUSH:
Contemporary
Photographs from the Collection
Opening: 8 MARCH 2011 - Closing: 21 AUGUST 2011
RECONFIGURING AN AFRICAN-ICON:
Odes to the Mask by Modern & Contemporary Artists from Three
Continents
Opening: 9 FEBRUARY 2011 - Closing: 8 MAY 2011
Even in the Paris of the 19th-century,
there certainly were Struggling-Artists. Vincent van Gogh comes
immediately to mind.
Opening: 7 December 2010 - Closing: 21 August 2011
THINKING OUTSIDE THE
BOX:
European Cabinets,
Caskets, & Cases from the Permanent Collection [1500-1900]
Some of...
Opening: 10 November 2010 - Closing: 10 April 2011
There’s nothing quite like looking at Old-Photographs. They may be grainy, faded, curled, even coming loose from their framing-mounts. But they have Survived!
Opening: 16 November 2010 - Closing: 4 July 2011
The
Centerpiece of this small-scale show at the Met is the seated-statue of a Scribe, long on-view on the way to the Temple of Dendur—which one hopes the
Met won’t have to give back to Egypt!
Actually,
the Met earned the Temple, which was
going to disappear anyway under the waters backed-up by the Aswan-High-Dam. It also cost a lot to
construct that impressive Glass-House in which to show it off.
Recentl...
Opening: 10 November 2010 - Closing: 10 April 2011
This
Eclectic-Centennial-Exhibition devoted to Photography of the 1910s, provides a
fascinating look at the Birth of Modern-Life—through 58 photographs by some 30
artists, including Eugène Atget, E. J. Bellocq, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Eugène
Druet, Lewis Hine, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Adolph de Meyer, Christian Schad,
Morton Schamberg, Charles Sheeler, & Stanislaw Witkiewicz, among others.
Drawn
exclusively from the Museum’s Collection, the exhibition also features
Anonymous-Snapshots, Séance Photographs, and a Family-Album made by
Russian-Nobility, on the Eve of Revolution!
