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SCHEDULE OF EXHIBITIONS - JULY 1989 - - - NEW EXHIBITION - - -

July 25: Drawings. Prints and Photographs: A Selection (Through Sept. 10) A sampling of 125 works from the Museum's holdings. The exhibition is made possible by Reliance Group Holdings, Inc.

- - - CURRENT EXHIBITIONS - - - Through July 9: Courtly Romance in Japanese Art (Part I) (Opened May 12) Approximately 20 works, including screens, handscrolls, books, textiles, and lacquer, revealing the subtle and expressive vocabulary of Japanese narrative art and design. Part one of a two-part exhibition.

Through July 16: Spain: Drawings. Prints and Photographs (Opened April 18) A selection of approximately 125 images of Spain in prints, drawings and photographs, drawn principally from the Museum's collections. The exhibition is made possible by a generous grant from Placido Arango.

Through July 16: Gova and the Spirit of Enlightenment (Opened May 4) Approximately 120 works by the great 18th-century Spanish artist (1746-1828),including paintings, drawings, and prints, selected to reveal the artist's development of Enlightenment themes and to illustrate his profound effect on his contemporaries.

The exhibition is made possible by grants from Manufacturers Hanover and The New York Stock Exchange Foundation, Inc.

Transportation assistance has been provided by Iberia Airlines of Spain.

This exhibition is also supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency, Banco Central, and Comite Conjunto Hispano-Norteamericano para la Cooperacion Cultural y Educativa. An indemnity has been granted by the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

It was organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, , Madrid, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Additional support in New York has been provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Jr. Charitable Trust. Schedule of Exhibitions - July 1989 Page 2

Through July 30: A Musical Offering: An Exhibition Celebrating the (Opened March 10) Centennial of the Collection of Musical Instruments A selection of about 150 recent acquisitions of both Western and non-Western musical instruments not previously displayed. The exhibition celebrates the centenary of the original gifts in 1889 of Mrs. John Crosby Brown and Joseph Drexel, which formed the nucleus of the Metropolitan's extensive collection of musical instruments. The exhibition is made possible by The Real Estate Council of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Through July 30: islamic Art in Reserve: Unfamiliar works from the (Opened May 3) Permanent Collection About 40 rarely displayed objects from the Museum's Islamic collection, ranging in date from the 8th to the 2 0th century and from countries as diverse and distant as Tunisia and India, and representing a broad range of types and materials. The exhibition is made possible by Reliance Group Holdings, Inc.

Through August 27: Mountains of the Mind (Part II): Nature and Self (Opened April 11) in Later Chinese Landscape Painting Continuation of the exhibition Mountains of the Mind: Nature and Self in Early Chinese Landscape Painting, which surveyed Chinese landscape paintings from the 11th to 14th centuries. Part II displays 50 Ming and Ch'ing dynasty masterpieces — all from the Museum's collection — dating from the 15th to 17th centuries. This exhibition is made possible by Reliance Group Holdings, Inc.

Through Sept. 3: Apropos Aprons (Opened June 6) An exhibition of approximately 60 aprons from the 17th century to the present, including fashionable aprons, European folk aprons, and aprons from Africa and the Orient, selected from The Costume Institute's collection and from other Museum departments. These aprons are primarily decorative rather than functional. As relatively flat, unstructured costume pieces, they form an excellent graphic field on which a variety of woven, embroidered, and appliqued ornament is displayed. The exhibition is made possible by Reliance Group Holdings, Inc.

Through Sept. 10: Tribal Southeast Asian Art: The Fred and Rita (Opened June 13) Richman Collection Selection of works from this recent gift to the Museum, including wood and stone sculpture, metalwork, and jewelry from the Philippines, Borneo, Sulawesi, Sumatra, and the small islands of Indonesia. The exhibition is made possible by Reliance Group Holdings, Inc. (more) Schedule of Exhibitions - July 1989 Page 3

Through October 1: Majolica (Opened May 23) The exhibition, consisting primarily of objects from the 15th and 16th centuries, combines for the first time the superb holdings of the Museum's Departments of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts and Medieval Art with those of the Robert Lehman Collection — one of the richest cross-sections of Italian majolica in any public collection. The exhibition is made possible by the Robert Lehman Foundation, Inc.

Through October 8: Invention and Continuity in Contemporary Photographs (Opened June 13) An exhibition of about two dozen contemporary photographs, most from the 1960s and 1980s. Drawn primarily from the Museum's holdings, these pictures are grouped in three sections demonstrating contemporary photographers' continuing tendency to employ repeated or fragmentary images, to take existing works of art and media images as subjects, and to create fictions or illusions that often subvert expectations about the medium's literal truth. Included in the exhibition are works by the Starn Twins, Harry Callahan, John Baldessari, Frederick Sommer, Cindy Sherman, Robert Cumming, and others.

Through October 29: The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden (Opened May 2) Third season of the Museum's 10,000 square- foot 20th-century open-air sculpture garden located on the roof of the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing. This year's installation features six sculptures of diverse styles including Menashe Kadishman's The Shepherd Boy (1987), a recent acquisition, and Joel Perlman's Square Tilt (1983) , exhibited at the Museum for the first time. Open during Museum hours, weather permitting.

Indefinite close: Samaras on Paper (Opened Early May) Exhibition of 36 drawings and photographs from the Museum's collection by the versatile and unorthodox artist, Lucas Samaras. Best known for his box assemblages, sculptures, and interior environments, Samaras also works frequently in such media on paper as photography and pastel, pen and ink, and colored pencil. In this installation of works on paper created between 1962 and 1986, two of the artist's most potent themes — self-portraits and pins — are combined and transformed several times. (more) Schedule of Exhibitions - July 1989 Page 4 Indefinite close: Islands and Ancestors: Indigenous Styles of (Opened September 8) Southeast Asia Exhibition of sculptures from Indonesia— Borneo, Sumatra, Sulawesi, numerous small islands, and from the few Austronesian-speaking peoples of Vietnam and the Philippines. Most of the works are on loan from the collection of the Barbier-Mueller Museum in Geneva. This exhibition represents the Metropolitan's expansion into the little-known area of Indonesian tribal art. A fully illustrated catalogue, with essays by nine authorities, accompanies the exhibition.

PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS Opened December 14: The Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art The Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art, located on the mezzanine level of The American Wing, houses the Metropolitan's entire reserve collection of American art. More than 8000 objects are displayed in optimum conditions for care and preservation, and a new level of accessibility is provided for visitors through an on-line, computerized public access system for catalogue information services. Other facilities in the Study Center include an orientation area with information services and a changing exhibition space. The Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art is made possible by The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. Generous support was also provided by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Additional grants were received from the National Endowments for the Humanities and the Arts and from Paul Greenwood.

Opened December 14: Reinstallation of John Vanderlyn's Panorama of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles The Vanderlyn Panorama, which had been off view for two years during the construction of The Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art, has now been reinstalled. The 12' x 165' panorama, painted by American artist John Vanderlyn (1775-1852) in 1818-19, is a rare survival of a form of public art that flourished in the 19th century. Originally exhibited in the darkened interior of Vanderlyn's rotunda in City Hall Park, , the panorama was illuminated with concealed skylights. Viewers stood on a central platform and experienced the illusion of actually standing by the water garden at Versailles between the massive west facade of the palace and the great vista of the garden.

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September 12: Recent Acquisitions: The Dial Collection (Through Feb. '90) More than fifty lithographs and etchings from Toulouse-Lautrec to Matisse selected from the Bequest of Scofield Thayer, co-owner and editor of The Dial, the most important early 2 0th century American magazine of arts and letters. The exhibition is made possible by Reliance Group Holdings. September 13: Persian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of (Through December 31) Art (working title) Exhibition of 35 Persian drawings from the 15th through the early 20th centuries, many of them never before exhibited, drawn entirely from the Islamic collection of the Museum. Arranged thematically, the exhibition will include such subjects as single figures, animals, and the hunt. Persian drawings, generally of small size and delicate execution, have often been appended to exhibitions of paintings. This exhibition and its accompanying catalogue will present a concentrated view of the Museum's very fine and representative drawings. The exhibition is made possible by Reliance Group Holdings, Inc.

September 15: Masterworks of Ming and oing Painting from the (Through October 29) Forbidden City A selection of 80 paintings from the Palace Museum in Beijing dating from the Ming (1368-1644) and Press Preview: the Qing (1644-1911) dynasties. Of extraordinary Thur. Sept. 14, quality, the paintings have never before been seen in 10 a.m. - noon the West; most have never been out of China. Masterworks of Ming and Qing Painting from the Forbidden City was organized by the International Arts Council and the Palace Museum, with the support of Northwest Airlines. The exhibition in New York is made possible by the International Arts Council and The Dillon Fund.

September 19: Flemish Drawings and Prints (Through Nov. 12) A selection of approximately 125 works from the Museum's collections, dating principally from the 16th and 17th centuries. The exhibition is made possible by Reliance Group Holdings, Inc.

September 23: The New Vision: Photography Between the World Wars, (Through Dec. 31) Ford Motor Company Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art An exhibition of 125 vintage photographs from the Metropolitan Museum's Ford Motor Company Collection, presenting the photographic revolution in 20th-century vision in Europe and America between World War I and World War II. Organized in

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Press Preview: celebration of photography's 150th anniversary, the Mon. Sept. 18, exhibition will include masterworks by Man Ray, 10 a.m. - noon Moholy-Nagy, Strand, Stieglitz, Evans, Rodchenko, El Lissitzky, and many others. The exhibition has been organized and will open at the Metropolitan Museum before traveling to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, High Museum of Art, , and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The exhibition is made possible by Ford Motor Company.

October 3: Velazquez (Through Jan. '90) First concentrated display of the artist's greatest paintings. The exhibition will include nearly 40 works, most from the Prado, Press Preview: including many never seen outside of Spain and Thur. Sept. 28, others from European and American museums. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. The exhibition is made possible by Banco Hispano Americano. Transportation assistance has been provided by Iberia Airlines of Spain.

October 20: Gold of Africa: The Barbier-Mueller Collection (Through March 11 '90) An exhibition of some 170 objects of jewelry and royal regalia made primarily by the Press Preview: Akan-speaking peoples of Ghana and Ivory Coast in Thurs. Oct. 19, the 19th and 2 0th centuries, selected to highlight 10 a.m. - noon the gold-working traditions of West Africa. The exhibition will be jointly organized with the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva, and will be accompanied by an illustrated catalogue.

October 28: Central European Galleries (Permanent New galleries devoted to Central European Installation) 18th-century decorative arts and sculpture include Rococo furniture, early Meissen porcelain, German faience, Bohemian glass, Augsburg silver, and a selection of gold boxes and other goldsmiths' work. Among the new acquisitions are unusually large and imposing lion and lioness figures made for Augustus the Strong's Japanese Palace at Dresden. Objects are drawn from the collections of Lesley and Emma Shaefer, R. Thornton Wilson, and Irwin Untermyer. Installation made possible with funds donated by Mrs. Charles Wrightsman and Mr. and Mrs. John H. Gutfreund.

October 17: Revivals and Revitalizations: American Pastels (Through Jan. 14 '90) in The Metropolitan Museum of Art A selection of 40 pastels by 22 artists, ranging in date from the pastel revival of the 1880s to the experimental use of the medium by modernists in the early years of the 2 0th century and including works by such artists as Cassatt, Whistler, Dove, and O'Keeffe. This exhibition is made possible by Reliance Group Holdings, Inc. (more) Schedule of Exhibitions - July 1989 Page 7

November 2: Canaletto (Through Jan. 21 '90) The first Canaletto exhibition in the United States, to include about 125 paintings and drawings of the work of the Venetian view painter, Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697-1768). The exhibition will survey Canaletto's career as Press Preview: a painter and draftsman, tracing the different phases Mon. Oct. 30, of his technical and artistic development, from the 10 a.m. - noon free brushwork of the early views to the imaginative late capriccios. While emphasizing the early works, the exhibition will not neglect the years of high productivity and popular appeal. The exhibition is made possible by Louis Vuitton. Additional support has been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.

November 2: Prints by Canaletto and His Contemporaries (Through Jan. 21 '90) Exhibited concurrently with the exhibition Canaletto. roughly 30 prints by Canaletto and 40 paintings, drawings, prints, and printed books by his contemporaries, including Carlevaris, Bellotto, and Marieschi, drawn from the Museum's holdings will be on display on the ground floor of the Robert Lehman Wing. The exhibition is made possible by Reliance Group Holdings, Inc.

November 16: Gerry Collection (Through July 29 '90) Exhibition of Japanese art from the Gerry Collection gift, including some 60 works, primarily ceramics. Accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.

December 1: Annual Christmas Tree and Baroque Creche Display (Thru Early Jan. '90) Annual display of the Museum's famous Christmas tree and collection of 18th-century Baroque Neapolitan creche figures presented to the Museum in 1964 by the late Loretta Hines Howard. The installation is made possible by The Loretta Hines Howard Trust.

December 2: Pierre Bonnard (Through Feb. 4 '90) • The first comprehensive exhibition of the graphic work of the important Nabi painter. The exhibition Press Preview: will include approximately 135 prints, drawings, wed. Nov. 29, books, and paintings. 10 a.m. - noon The exhibition is scheduled to travel to The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and then to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.

December 12: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection: (Through April 1 '90) 20th-century European Masters Exhibition of some 85 paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from this noted collection, including works by Braque, Matisse, Miro, and Picasso. Accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.

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December 13: The Age of Napoleon: Costume from Revolution to (Thru April 15, '90) Empire Exhibition of 120 examples of French dress, court costumes, military uniforms, and textiles from the eve of the Revolution in 1789 to the end of the First Empire in 1815. Supplemented by some 130 paintings, jewelry, and decorative art objects. The exhibition has been made possible by Wolfgang K. Flottl.

December 19: An American Celebration: Paintings from the Manoogian (Through Feb. 25 '90) Collection Approximately 70 works, covering all aspects of 19th-century American painting, including Hudson River landscapes and figure painting, from the collection of Press Preview: Mr. and Mrs. Richard Manoogian. The Manoogian Mon. Dec. 18, collection is notable both for its concentration of 10 a.m. - noon such key masterpieces as George Caleb Bingham's The Jolly Flatboatmen. Albert Bierstadt's The Shore of the Turquoise Sea, and Martin Johnson Heade's The Gems of Brazil. and for its inclusion of superb, but perhaps less well-known works such as John Haberle's The Changes of Time, Jasper Cropsey's The Backwoods of America, and Frederic Church's View of the Maqdalena River. The exhibition is being organized by the National Gallery of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts. The exhibition is made possible by United Technologies Corporation.

March 8, 1990: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection (Through May 13) Selection of approximately 150 master drawings from the collection of Ian Woodner, reflecting a wide Press Preview: range of periods and styles from the early Renaissance Mon. March 5, to the 2 0th century, including works by Diirer, 10 a.m. - noon , Cellini, , Watteau, Goya, Cezanne, Seurat, and Redon. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.

Spring 1990: Chess Sets Approximately 75 chess sets from the permanent collection, organized to coincide with the 1990 Congress of Chess Collectors International.

May 2, 1990: Art of central Africa: Masterpieces from the Berlin (Through November 4) Museum Fur Volkerkunde Exhibition of approximately 60 masterpieces of central Africa art from the Berlin Museum fur Volkerkunde, featuring examples of the area's sculptural traditions. Accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.

(more) Schedule of Exhibitions - July 1989 Page 9 May 23, 1990: Poussin to Matisse (Through July 29) An exhibition, jointly organized with The Art Institute of Chicago, of 50 French paintings from the Hermitage and Pushkin Museums. Poussin to Matisse. Press Preview: the second exhibition held under the current exchange Monday, May 14, agreement with the U.S.S.R., will reveal the Russian 10 a.m. - noon appreciation of French art over three centuries. Accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue. This exhibition is made possible by Sara Lee Corporation. Transportation assistance has been provided by Finnair. Early June 1990: A Selection of Chinese Ceramics from the Adele (Through Sept. 1990) and Stanley Herzman Collection Selection of approximately 90 works from this future bequest by Adele and Stanley Herzman of Chinese ceramics to the Museum. The ceramics in the exhibition will range from the Han dynasty (206 B.C. - A.D. 220) through the Qing dynasty (1644 - 1912).

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