ARCHIVES The Metropolitan Museum of Art PLEASE POST 82nd Street and Fifth Avenue few York, New York 10028 (212) 879-5500 SCHEDULE OF EXHIBITIONS - MAY 1989 I - - - NEW EXHIBITIONS - - - I May 2: [The Iria and B. Garald cantor Roof Garden (Through October 29) Third season of the Museum's 10,000-square- jfoot 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 Sguare Tilt (1983) , exhibited at the Museum for the first time. Open during Museum hours, weather permitting.

May 3: Islamic Art in Reserve: Unfamiliar Works from the (Through July 30) 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.

May 4: Goya and the Spirit of Enlightenment (Through July 16) 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. (more) Schedule of Exhibitions May 1989 Page 2 May 12: Courtly Romance in Japanese Art (Part I) (Through July 9) 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.

May 23: Majolica (Through October 1) 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.

- - CURRENT EXHIBITIONS - Through May 14: Early Indonesian Textiles From Three Island cultures (Opened February 14) An exhibition of some 50 Indonesian textiles, dating from about the late 19th century to early 2 0th century. The selection, which complements Islands and Ancestors, includes objects, mainly for ritual use, from the island cultures of Sulawesi, Sumatra, Sumba, and Borneo. Included are hangings for weddings and funerals, shrouds, and fabrics made for ceremonial gifts. The objects are drawn from the collection of Anita E. Spertus and Robert J. Holmgren. The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue.

Through June 18: Imagery and Illusion in a Royal Sixteenth-century (Opened March 16) Persian Manuscript An exhibition highlighting a recent gift to the Metropolitan Museum and the Art Museums of the 16th-century Persian painting, Allegory of Worldly and Otherworldly Drunkenness by Sultan Muhammad, from a royal copy of the collected works of the famous poet Hafiz. Various parts of the dispersed manuscript — binding, illuminated frontispiece, text, and three paintings — are brought together to provide a context for this masterpiece by the leading court painter of his day.

Through June 25: Japanese Ink Paintings from The Mary and Jackson (Opened Feb. 15) Burke Collection A selection of 12 Japanese ink paintings from The Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. The paintings, ranging in date from the 14th to the 17th century, reflect the seminal influence in the development of Japanese ink painting of the two earliest Japanese collections of Chinese art, those of the Kamakura and Ashikaga shogunates formed in the 14th and 15th centuries, respectively. (more) schedule of Exhibitions - May 1989 Page 3 Through June 25: American Porcelain: 1770-1920 (Opened April 8) The first major comprehensive survey of American porcelain production over a 150-year period, from 1770 to 1920. The exhibition includes 12 5 objects produced by such American factories as: Tucker Factory, Philadelphia; Union Porcelain Works, Greenpoint, Brooklyn; United States Pottery Company, Bennington, Vermont. Also included are art porcelains made by the 20th-century artist-potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau of Syracuse, New York. Objects in the exhibition, which is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, come from 40 public and private collections. The exhibition is made possible by Lenox China. 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 PlScido Arango. 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 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.

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

(more) Schedule of Exhibitions - May 1989 Page 4 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.

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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 Vanderlvn'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.

Reopened May 17 '88: Reopening of The Cloisters Treasury To celebrate its 50th anniversary in 1988, The Cloisters has expanded the exhibition space in The Treasury by more than 50 percent. The complete reinstallation of the small and precious works of art kept in The Treasury includes illuminated manuscripts,

(more) Schedule of Exhibitions - May 1989 Page 5 the cross of walrus-tusk ivory thought to be from the abbey of Bury Saint Edmunds in England, silver-gilt and bejeweled reliquaries and other liturgical objects, and spectacular gold and enameled secular pieces. Reinstallation of The Cloisters Treasury has been made possible through the generosity of Helene and Michel David-Weill. Opened May 28 '88: Charlotte C. and John C. Weber Galleries The Charlotte C. and John C. Weber Galleries contain one of the largest and finest collections of ancient Chinese arts in the Western world. The works of art in this permanent installation, combining the Metropolitan's already significant holdings with many important new acquisitions, cover periods from the late Neolithic (ca. 4000 B.C.) through the Bronze Age (1500-200 B.C.), Han and T'ang dynasties (206 B.C.-A.D. 906), and end with a major display of later Buddhist sculpture. Nearly every medium and expressive form employed by the early Chinese are represented, including ceramics, jades, oracle bones, ritual and secular bronzes, lacquer, silver, Buddhist sculpture, tomb figures and architectural elements and models. Many of the pieces have never before been seen in public. Funds for augmenting the Museum's ancient Chinese art holdings, as well as for the planning, construction, and installation of the new galleries, were provided by Charlotte C. and John C. Weber.

FUTURE EXHIBITIONS June 6: Apropos Aprons (Through Sept. 3) 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. June 13: The Fred and Rita Richman Collection of Southeast (Through Sept. 10) Asian Tribal Art 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 - May 1989 Page 6

June 13: Invention and Continuity in Contemporary Photographs (Through October 8) 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. The exhibition is made possible by The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation.

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. 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 2 0th 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 accompaning 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 the Qing (1644-1911) dynasties. Of extraordinary quality, the paintings have never before been seen in the West; most have never been out of China. The exhibition has been organized jointly by the International Arts Council and the Palace Museum, Beijing.

September 19: Flemish Drawings and Prints (Through Nov. 12) A selection of approximately 12 5 works from the Museum's collections, dating principally from the 16th and 17th centuries. The exhibition is made possible by Reliance Group Holdings, Inc. (more) Schedule of Exhibitions - May 1989 Page 7 September 22: 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 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 will open at the Metropolitan 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. 7 '90) First concentrated display of the artist's greatest paintings. The exhibition will include nearly 4 0 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. - noon 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 20th 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: German-Austrian Galleries (Permanent New galleries devoted to German and Austrian 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.

(more) Schedule of Exhibitions - May 1989 Page 8 Mid October: Revivals and Revitalizations: American Pastels (Through Mid-Jan. '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 20th century and including works by such artists as Cassatt, Whistler, Dove, and O'Keeffe. This exhibition is made possible by Reliance Group Holdings, Inc. November 2: Canaletto (Through Jan. 21 '90) The first comprehensive exhibition and the first ever in the United States, to include about 125 paintings and drawings of the work of the Venetian view painter, Giovanni Antonio Canaletto (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 vedute to the imaginative late capricci. 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. Concurrently with the exhibition, roughly 50 prints and printed books by Canaletto and his contemporaries drawn from the Museum's holdings will be on display on the ground floor of the Robert Lehman Wing.

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 Barogue 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 '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. (more) Schedule of Exhibitions - May 1989 Page 9 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 13 0 paintings, jewelry, and decorative art objects.

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 Turguoise 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 Magdalena River. The exhibition is made possible by United Technologies Corporation. The exhibition is being organized by the National Gallery of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts.

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. May 1, 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. 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 provided by Finnair. (more) Schedule of Exhibitions - May 1989 Page 10

Please note: MAY HOLIDAY

Memorial Day, Monday, May 29 Closed MUSEUM HOURS Tuesdays 9:30 a.m.-8:45 p.m. Wednesdays-Sundays 9:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m. Mondays Closed Gallery Hours: Every effort is made to keep all galleries open all Museum hours. The Arms and Armor galleries are currently closed for renovation. THE CLOISTERS (Please note: March through October) HOURS Tuesdays-Sundays 9:30 a.m.- 5:15 p.m. Mondays Closed

ADMISSION: There is a suggested admission fee of $5.00 for adults and $2.50 for students and senior citizens to the Main Building and The Cloisters. While visitors are required to contribute something, the amount of the tax-deductible admission fee to the Museum is voluntary.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION please contact John Ross or Jim Backus, The Public Information Department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Tel: (212) 879-5500. May 1989