The Metropolitan Museum of Art 82nd Street and Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10028 (212)879-5500 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 Francisco Goya (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, Museo del Prado, 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, Manhattan, 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. (more) Schedule of Exhibitions - July 1989 Page 5 - - - FUTURE EXHIBITIONS 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