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 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. (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 Harvard University 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. - - 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 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, 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. 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.