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Exhibitions
The Art and Craft of Bookbinding, September 8 -November25, The Thomas J. Watson Library, during library hoursAn exhibition of bookbinding tracing its evolution over 2000 years and a showcase of the book as art. This exhibition is sponsored by the Iowa Center for Book Arts.
Ancient Art in Miniature: Near Eastern Seals from the Collection of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, September 10, 1987-January 10, 1988, Robert Wood Johnson, Jr. Recent Acquisitions Gallery
This exhibition of about 100 stamp and cylinder seals from the Late Neolithic (about 5500 B. c.) to the Iranian Achaemenid Empire (about 550- 331 B. C.) includes about 35 objects from the Museum’s Ancient Near East collection illus trating connections between seal imagery and more monumental works of art.
The exhibition has been made possible by the Reliance Group Holdings, Inc.
Armco Sleet, Ohio by Edward Weston. Platinum print. Lent by Center for Creative Photography. Arizona Board of Regents
Edward Weston: A Centennial Retrospective, September 11-October 31, The Charles Z. Offin Gallery and Galleries fo r Drawings, Prints and Photographs
Triumphs of American Silvermaking: Tiffany & Co. 1860-1900, September 15, 1987-January 10, 1988, The American Wing
The approximately 20 silver and gold objects in the exhibition reflect the range of historic and exotic styles produced during that period and include major presentation and exhibition pieces, such as a gold box presented to the 19th- century entrepreneur Cyrus W. Field by the City of New York to commemorate the first successful laying of the Atlantic telegraph cable in August of 1858.
This exhibition has been made possible by Tiffany & Co.
Images of the Mind, September 18, 1987- January 10, 1988, Douglas Dillon Galleries fo r Chinese paintings
Images o f the Mind presents 70 outstanding
examples of Chinese painting and calligraphy from the 12th to the 20th centuries. The title refers to the belief that in touching brush to paper the artist was not recording the external world but was expressing his own perception of creation and thereby revealing his inner spirit.
Zurbaran, September 2 2 -December 13, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Exhibition Hall
The first major retrospective exhibition in America consisting of approximately 70 paint ings, many of them virtually unknown treasures from rarely visited or private collections, of the works of the great Spanish Baroque painter. Francisco de Zurbaran (1598-1664), considered second only to Velazquez and a contemporary of the great Venetian and Flemish masters Titian and Rubens.
This exhibition has been made possible by Banco de Bilbao. Additional support has been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, and an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. Edward Weston (1886-1958) was one of the
most important photographers of the twentieth century. This Centennial Retrospective is drawn from the unparalleled collection of Weston’s work in the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona. It has been supported by a grant from the BankAmerica Foundation, San Francisco. California.
Boscotrecase Wall Paintings, open September 15, permanent installation, Cypriot Corridor
These 17 wall-paintings from a Roman villa situated in the modern town of Boscotrecase at the foot of Mount Vesuvius have not been exhibited since 1949. Now newly restored, these masterpieces of Roman painting date to the time of Augustus in the last decade of the 1st century B.C.
The restoration and installation were made possible by a grant from Giovanni Agnelli.
Detail from Boscotrecase wall paintings. Rogers Fund. 1920
The Florentine Codex, September 29, 1987- January 15, 1988, The Robert Goldwater Library, The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing mezzanine, during library hours
This exhibition features the photographic facsimile of the original manuscript in the Biblioteca Laurenziana, Florence, and modern editions of the drawings and text in Spanish, English, and Nahuatl.
Illuminated tugra of Sultan Süleyman, ca. 1550. Lent by Topkapi Palace Museum. Istanbul
The Age of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent. October 4, 1987-January 17, 1988, Special Exhibition Galleries, 2nd floor, north wing
The first major exhibition in the United States of the art from the Golden Age of the Ottoman Empire includes such Turkish national treasures as an inlaid wood throne, the Piri Reis map of the Americas made in 1513. a jewel-encrusted steel helmet, and many imperial personal items of silver, gold, jade, and rock crystal.
The exhibition is made possible by Philip Morris Companies, Inc. Additional support has been provided by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. The exhibition is presented through the cooperation of the Government of the Turkish Republic.
American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School, October 4, 1987-January 3, 1988, Previews f o r Individual and Dual Members: Sunday, September 27-Saturday, October 3, during regular Museum hours, The Joan Whitney Payson Galleries, The A merican
Wing
Detail from Progress by Asher B. Durand. Lent by The Warner Collection of Gulf States Paper Corporation, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
The first large-scale exhibition in over 40 years contains more than 85 works, many on loan for the first time from other major public and private collections, by such renowned masters of 19th-century American landscape painting as Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Frederic Church, John F. Kensett, and Albert Bierstadt.
This exhibition has been made possible by the Chrysler Corporation Fund. Additional funding has been received from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Emperors’ Albums: Images of Mughal India, October 21,1987- February 14, 1988, The Hagop Kevorkian Fund Special Exhibitions Gallery
The first public exhibition in their entirety of the magnificent royal album leaves produced for the Mughal Emperor Jahangir and his son, Shah Jahan. (1605-58).
The American Art Poster of the 1890s: The Gift of Leonard A. Lauder, October 22, 1987- January 10, 1988, The American Wing
The 100 posters in this exhibition were made by American artists to promote the sales mainly of books, magazines, and bicycles. This exhibition has been made possible by a generous grant from Leonard A. Lauder and The Lauder Foundation. Evelyn and Leonard Lauder Fund.
New Louis XIV Bedroom and Adjoining Entrance Gallery, open October 30, permanent installation, extension o f Wrightsman Galleries
Continuing Exhibitions
Dance, through September 6, The Costume InstituteThe Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, seasonal, through November 1
Houses for the Hereafter, Funerary Temples from Guerrero, Mexico, through January 17, 1988, The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing Special Exhibition Gallery
Lila Acheson Wallace Wing, 20th century art, permanent installation
Gothic Revival Library, permanent installation. The American Wing
The Arts of Japan in The Sackler Galleries for Asian Art, permanent installation
The Heathcote Foundation Gallery of Late 18th-Early 19th-century English Decorative Arts, permanent installation
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Notices
The cloisters
Main Building Hours: Tuesday 9:30-8:45;
Wednesday-Sunday 9:30-5:15. Closed Monday. Recorded information, 535-7710; for informa tion about libraries and study rooms, 879-5500; TTY 879-0421.
Admission: S5.00 suggested for adults, $2.50 for
students and senior citizens includes Main Building and The Cloisters. Some contribution required, but amount of tax-dedùctible admis sion fee is voluntary. Free to members and children under 12 accompanied by an adult.
Advance reservations required fo r all group visits. Call 570-3916.
Museum Parking Garage: Open daily, 24 hours
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Museum Cafeteria: Tuesday 9:30-10:30 (Con
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Museum Bar: Tuesday 11:30-8:00; Wednes
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Accessibility: Entrances at Fifth Avenue and
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Gallery Hours: Every effort is made to keep all
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Strollers: Permitted weekdays only in all
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Photography and Sketching: Special permits not required for personal photography with
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No flash or attachments, movie or video cameras in the Museum, and no photography in special exhibitions allowed. For information on
sketching in our permanent collections and special exhibitions please inquire at Information Desk.
Tour Information: Volunteer guides offer tours
of the Museum’s collections on weekends beginning September 12 and weekdays begin ning October 6. Consult Walking Tour Kiosk in Great Hall for topics and schedules or telephone Visitors Center (879-5500 ext. 3583). Group
tours in foreign languages can be arranged
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Visitas Guiadas en Español: Todos los martes a
las 6:15 p.m. y domingos a las 2:30 p.m. Consulte el Kiosco de Información en el Vestíbulo Principal. Visitas Guiadas has been funded in part by Avon Products Foundation, Inc.
Recorded Tours: Available in English and many
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Notice to Members: Admission buttons may be
obtained at Membership Desk in Great Hall upon presentation of membership card.
Travel with the Met—1987
New England Collections, September 12-19.
Aboard the World Discoverer from Boston to Boston. Outstanding art and architecture, combined with local hospitality in coastal settings of natural beaqty in Massachusetts, Maine, and Rhode Island with guest lecturer Professor S. Lane Faison, Jr.
Cosponsored with Yale University: The Shores o f Our Heritage, October 6-16. From Bangor to
Bermuda along the Eastern Shore—Campo- bello, Hudson River mansions, Winterthur, Charleston, Savannah—abroad the/lliria. With guest lecturers Cleanth Brooks and Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque. For this trip information and reservations through Travel Dynamics, Inc., 132 East 70th Street, New York, N.Y. 10021. Tel. (212) 517-7555.
-1988
India and Nepal, January (3 weeks). Limited to
20. Visit Bombay, Aurangabad, Udaipur, Jaipur, Agra, Khajuraho, Varanasi, Kathmandu, Delhi. Optional prelude in Madras.
Genius o f Italy, May 14-31. Two nights in
Venice, then sail on World Discoverer to revel in splendors and beauty of Italy, around the boot. Includes Ravenna, Urbino, Apulia, Paestum or Pompeii, Ravello, Pisa, Florence, and Elba.
Palaces and Gardens, May 28-June 9. First to
the Italian Lake District, then board the World
Discoverer in Genoa. Explore art, architecture,
gardens from Alps to Morocco’s High Atlas mountains, via south of France and Spain with unique cruise up Guadalquivir River to Seville. For additional information and reservations call, visit or write: Raymond & Whitcomb Co., 400 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017 Telephone (212) 759-3960; outside N.Y. State
1-800-245-9005.
Museum Publications
Zurbarán, by Jeannine Baticle, with essays byYves Bottineau, Jonathan Brown, and Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez. A scholarly, in-depth study of works by the great Spanish Baroque painter Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664). Like his contemporary Velázquez, he is widely regarded as the exponent of a uniquely Spanish vision of 17th-century life. Illustrations include portraits, still lifes, and religious paintings. Bibliography. 368 pages, 200 illus. (55 in color). 834” x 11”.
Special Museum price: cloth, $45.00 (E0461);
paper. $35.00 (E0462).
American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School. Introduction by John K. Howat.
This comprehensive survey of 85 masterpieces by Hudson River School artists is richly illustrated with colorplates of the paintings, period photographs, and reproductions of other Hudson River School paintings. Index. 368 pages, 255 illus. (85 in color). 9%” x 1134”.
Special Museum price: cloth, $39.50 (E0454);
paper. $29.50 (E0464).
To order by mail, send a check or credit card
number and expiration date to: The Metro politan Museum of Art, Special Service Office, Middle Village, N.Y. 11381. Please include the 5-digit code number(s) provided. Shipping charges: from $25.01 to $40.00, $3.95; from $40.01 to $75.00, $4.95; and over $75.00, $5.95. For additional information or to order by phone, call (718) 326-7050.
The Cloisters, the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to the arts of the Middle Ages, is located on a hill overlooking the Hudson River at the northern tip of Manhattan. The building itself incorporates sections of European cloisters, a chapter house, a chapel, and other architectural elements, both domestic and religious, all dating from the 12th through the 15th centuries. The Cloisters collection includes the famed Unicorn Tapestries, frescoes, illuminated manuscripts, exquisite goldsmith work, stained glass, sculpture, and panel paint ings. Its flower and herb gardens contain more than 200 species of plants grown in the Middle Ages.
Cloisters To Be Closed for Two Weeks
In preparation for the Fiftieth Anniversary of The Cloisters to be celebrated next spring, major renovations are taking place in the gal leries. Due to construction, the entire Cloisters will be closed to the public for two weeks
beginning Tuesday, September 8, and will re open on Tuesday, September 22, 1987. In
addition, the Treasury, Annex, Jumieges, and Abbeville woodwork galleries will be closed until next May. We regret any inconvenience which these closings may cause.
The Bonnefont Cloister
Hours: Tuesday through Sunday 9:30-5:15.
Closed Monday. Due to a shortage of guards, some galleries may be closed part of the day. Call for gallery schedule on day of visit. Tours for individual visitors offered Tuesday, Wednes day, and Thursday at 3:00. For further informa tion call (212) 923-3700. Advance reservations
required fo r all group visits.
Admission: Suggested voluntary contribution
same as Main Building, includes admission to both. Free to members of the Metropolitan Museum and children under 12 accompanied by an adult.
Directions: Subway: 1ND A train to 190th
Street and Overlook Terrace, exit by elevator and walk through the park or take No. 4 bus (Fort Tryon Park—The Cloisters). Bus: No. 4 Madison Avenue (Fort Tryon Park—The Cloisters). Car: Henry Hudson Parkway north to first exit after George Washington Bridge.
Saturdays at The Cloisters
Sept. 5: Four Cloisters. Gallery talk. Janetta Benton. 12:00 and 2:00.
Sept. 26: Outsiders: Medieval Depictions of Blacks, Orientals and Jews. Gallery talk. Sara Lipton. 12:00 and
2:00.
Oct. 3: Art of Romanesque Spain. Gallery talk. Esther Cacchione. In Spanish, 12:00 and in English, 2:00. Oct. 10: Fresco Painting. Demonstration. Walter O’Neill. 12:00 and 2:00.
Oct. 17: Art Patrons of the Middle Ages. Gallery talk. Jacqueline Frank. 12:00 and 2:00.
Oct. 24: Images and Their Meaning in Cloister Decora tion. Gallery talk. Leslie Bussis. 12:00 and 2:00. Oct. 31: Death in the Middle Ages. Gallery talk. Stephen Lamia. 12:00 and 2:00.
Special Gallery Workshops for Families: Meet
in the Main Hall at 1:00. Workshop materials provided. Free with Museum admission.
Sept. 5: Birds
T h e M e tr o p o lit a n M us eum ot Ar t S e p te m b e r /O c to b e r 1 9 8 7 C a le n d a r /N e w s
Septem ber
T U E S D A Y 1Arte africano. Visita guiada. María Fernández. 6:15.
The Medieval Treasury. Gallery talk. Helen C. Evans. 7:00.
W E D N E S D A Y i e
French and Dutch Painting in the Seventeenth Century.
Gallery talk. Robert Friedman. 11:00.
T H U R S D A Y J
The Medieval Treasury. Gallery talk. Helen C. Evans.
11:00.
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La mujer en el arte moderno. Visita guiada. Manuel Borja Villel. 2:30.
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Chinese Export Porcelain. Gallery talk. Linda Lovell.
11:00.
The Daybooks o f Edward Weston, Parts I and II.Films.
1:00. DCA.
The Photographer: Edward Weston; Laura Gilpin: A n
Enduring Grace.Films. 2:00. UCA.
Photographs by Edward Weston. Gallery talk. Ellen Handy. 3:00.
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Moralizing Themes in Fifteenth-century Italian Art.
Gallery talk. Gabriella Befani Canfield. 11:00.
Isamu Noguchi.Film. 1:00. UCA.
Henry Moore at 80.Film. 2:00. UCA.
Islamic Art. Gallery talk. Linda Lovell. 3:00.
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English Decorative Arts of the Eighteenth Century.
Gallery talk. Linda Lovell. 11:00.
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Sustaining Images in Twentieth-century Art. Gallery talk. Randolph A. Williams. 11:00.
Love and Marriage. Gallery talk. Gabriella Befani Canfield. 3:00.
Obras maestras del arte español. Visita guiada. Rina Carvajal. 6:15.
Eighteenth-century French Painting. Gallery talk. Valerie McKenzie. 7:00.
CLOISTERS TO BE CLOSED FOR TWO WEEKS
In preparation for the Fiftieth Anniversary of The Cloisters to be celebrated next spring, major renovations are taking place in the gal leries. Due to construction, the entire Cloisters will be closed to the public for two weeks
beginning Tuesday, September 8, and will re open on Tuesday, September 22, 1987. In
addition, the Treasury. Annex, Jumieges, and Abbeville woodwork galleries will be closed until next May. We regret any inconvenience which these closings may cause.
F R ID A Y
In Celebration of Simplicity: The Northern Tradition.
Gallery talk. Nanette Salomon. 11:00.
The Daybooks o f Edward Weston, Parts / and II.Films.
1:00. UCA.
W E D N E S D A Y
Love and Marriage. Gallery talk. Gabriella Befani Canfield. 11:00.
Sustaining Images in Twentieth-century Art. Gallery talk. Randolph A. Williams. 3:00.
Detail from embroidered hanging, made for marquise de Montespan. probably in convent of Saint Joseph-de la-Providence. Paris, ca. 1683. Rogers Fund, 1946
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Eighteenth-century French Painting. Gallery talk. Valerie McKenzie. 11:00.
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Arte maya. Visita guiada. Maria Fernández. 2:30.
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Photographs by Edward Weston. Gallery talk. Ellen Handy. 11:00.
The Daybooks o f Edward Weston, Parts I and II.Films
1:00. UCA.
Ansel Adams; Laura Gilpin: A n Enduring Grace.Films.
2:00. UCA.
English Decorative Arts of the Eighteenth Century.
Gallery talk. I inda Lovell. 3:00.
Influencias islámicas en el arte medieval. Visita guiada Esther Morales Cacchione. 6:15.
In Celebration of Simplicity: The Northern Tradition
Gallery talk. Nanette Salomon. 7:00.
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Flowers and Gardens; The English Garden: A Pattern
fo r Pleasure, 1660-1725.Films. 12:00. GRR
The English Garden: A Lake in the Landscape, 1755-
1785; The Art o f Claude Lorrain. Films. 1:00. GRR.
Gardens, The Slowest of the Performing Arts: Images in the Metropolitan Museum. Lecture. Mac Griswold. 2:00. GRR.
Krishna Bhatt, sitar. In cooperation with the Society for Asian Music. 2:30. UCA. $10.00 (general admission); $7.00 (members, senior citizens, students).
La arquitectura del Museo Metropolitano de Arte. Visita guiada. María Fernández. 2:30
The Garden of Love: Rubens, Watteau, and Fragonard.
Lecture. Charles Scribner III. 3:00. GRR
Versailles; Fragonard.Films. 4:00. GRR.
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Islamic Art. Gallery talk. Linda Lovell. 11:00.
Eduardo Chillida.Film. 1:00. UCA.
Mobile by Alexander Colder; Giacometti. Films. 2:00
UCA.
Moralizing Themes in Fifteenth-century Italian Art
Gallery talk. Gabriella Befani Canfield. 3:00.
El realismo magicoenel arte del siglo XX. Visita guiada Susana Torruella Leval. 6:15.
Tiffany Silver and Glass. Gallery talk. Marvin D Schwartz. 7:00.
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City and Country in Nineteenth-century French Painting.
Gallery talk. Meredith Johnson. 11:00.
Eduardo Chillida.Film. 1:00. UCA.
Louise Nevelson in Process; Picasso the Sculptor.Films.
2:00. UCA.
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Tiffany Silver and Glass. Gallery talk. Marvin D. Schwartz. 11:00.
Eduardo Chillida.Film. 1:00. UCA.
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S A T U R D A Y
Glenn Gould Videotape (1957). Beethoven. Bach. 1:00.
GRR. $4.
Glenn Gould Videotape (1961). Shostakovich. 3:00.
GRR. $4.
Glenn Gould Videotape (1966). With Yehudi Menuhin. Bach, Schoenberg. Beethoven. 6:00. GRR. $4.
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The Hero as Artist. Film. 12:00. UCA.
Grandeur and Obedience.Film. 1:00. UCA.
Glenn Gould Videotape (1961). With Leonard Rose. Beethoven. 1:00. GRR. $4.
Delights and Horrors: Seventeenth-century Florentine Painting. Lecture. Charles McCorquodale. 2:00. UCA.
Arte romano. Visita guiada. Elena Quevedo. 2:30.
The Last of the Medici Family and the End of the Florentine Tradition. Lecture. William L. Barcham. 3:00. UCA.
Glenn Gould Videotape (1962). The Anatomy of a Fugue. Bach, Hindemith, Beethoven. Gould. 3:00. GRR. $4.
The Age o f Leonardo and Raphael. Film. 4:00. UCA.
Glenn Gould Videotape (1964). Sweelinck. Bach. Webern. Beethoven. 6:00. GRR. $4.
Glenn Gould Videotape (1981). The Goldberg Variations. 8:00. GRR. $4.
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American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School. Gallery talk. N. Mishoe Brennecke. 11:00. Flemish Landscape Painting. Gallery talk. Peter L. Donhauser. 3:00.
Spain in the Golden Age: Philip IV as Patron and Collector. Lecture. Jonathan Brown. 6:00. UCA.
Pintura china. Visita guiada. Ines Powell. 6:15. Dutch Genre Painting. Gallery talk. Marvin D. Schwartz.
7:00.
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Flemish Landscape Painting. Gallery talk. Peter L. Donhauser. 11:00.
City and Country in Nineteenth-century French Painting.
GRR—Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium UCA—Uris Center Auditorium
URIS CENTER FOR EDUCATION FILM PROGRAMS
Films are shown daily in the Uris Center
Auditorium. All are free with Museum admis sion. Films related to special exhibitions are listed here. Details of these and other screenings appear in the monthly FILMS flyers available at the information desks.
Photography is the subject the week of
September 15, in connection with the Edward Weston Centennial Retrospective exhibition.
20th Century Sculpture, to celebrate the new
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, may be seen in documentaries the week of Septem ber 22.
Süleyman the Magnificent, an hour-long film
by Suzanne Bauman, will be shown at 1:00 October 13-17 and October 27-31. A co production of the National Gallery of Art and the Office of Film and Television of the Metropolitan Museum, the film was made possible through the assistance of the Republic of Turkey and a grant from Mobil Oil Corporation.
Films for Young People may be seen Saturdays
as listed in the monthly flyers.
October
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Dutch Genre Painting. Gallery talk. Marvin D. Schwartz.
11:00.
F R ID A Y i *
American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School. Gallery talk. N. Mishoe Brennecke. 11:00.
Paradise on Karth: Masters of the Hudson River School. Thomas Cole. Lecture. Susan V. Mahoney. 2:00. UCA.
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The American Vision; George Caleb Bingham. Films.
12:00. GRR.
Creative Americans; American Light: The Luminist
Movement.Films. 1:00. GRR.
The Hudson River School: The Formative Years.
Lecture. Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque. 2:00. GRR.
Arte del siglo XX. Visita guiada. Manuel Borja Villel. 2:30.
Sanford R. Gifford in the Catskills. Lecture. Kevin J. Avery. 3:00. GRR.
In Open A ir: A Portrait o f the A merican Impressionists. Film. 4:00. GRR.
T U E S D A Y U
Chinese Export Porcelain. Gallery talk. Linda Lovell.
11:00.
Elegant Furniture: The beginnings of the Renaissance in Italy. Marvin D. Schwartz. 11:00. GRR. $8.
Painting in Spain at the Time of Zurbaran. Gallery talk. Rina Carvajal. 3:00.
Spain in the Golden Age: Spanish Music at the Hapsburg Court. Lecture. Laurence Libin. 6:00. UCA.
The Medici. The founding of the Medici dynasty and the dawn of the Florentine Renaissance; Ghiberti, Brunel leschi and Masaccio. Claude Marks. 6:00. GRR. $10.
Impresionismo. Visita guiada. Susana Torruella Leval. 6:15.
Lives and Legends of the Saints in Medieval Art. Gallery talk. Janetta Rebold Benton. 7:00.
A New Look: Picasso. Rosamond Bernier. 8:00. GRR.
$20.
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Detail from scroll for Chang Ta-t’ung. dated 1100, by Huang T’ing-chien. John B. Elliot Collection
W E D N E S D A Y /
The Landscape Vision. Hellenistic impressionism and medieval symbolic vistas: from Pompeii to the Unicorn Tapestries. Claude Marks. 11:00. GRR. $10.
Painting in Spain at the Time of Zurbaran. Gallery talk. Rina Carvajal. 11:00.
Mozart and Beethoven. Mozart: childhood travels and early trends. Karl Haas. 2:30. GRR. $9.
Greek Sculpture. Gallery talk. Marvin D. Schwartz. 3:00. Paris in the 20’s. Paris: Capital of the Arts. Dale Harris. 6:00. GRR. $9.
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Lives and Legends of the Saints in Medieval Art. Gallery talk. Janetta Rebold Benton. 11:00.
A Sculpture of Prince Shotoku: Japan's Foremost Cultural Hero. Gallery talk (20 minutes). Gail Cushman.
3:00.
Sofia Chamber Orchestra, Mincho Minchev, violin.
Mendelssohn. Haydn. Paganini. Prokofieff, Shosta kovich. 8:00. GRR. $15.
Vase, made for the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. Tiffany & Co. Silver, gold, enamel. Gift of Mrs. Winthrop Atwell. 1899
F R ID A Y y
Twentieth-century Painting and Sculpture. Gallery talk. Gail Stavitsky. 11:00.
Paradise on Earth. Masters of the Hudson River School: Frederic Church. Lecture. Marvin D. Schwartz. 2:00.
UCA.
Beaux Arts Trio. Haydn. Beethoven. Mendelssohn. 8:00. GRR. $16.
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Supreme Instants: The Photography of Edward Weston.
Lecture. Beaumont Newhall. 11:00. GRR.
Beaux Arts Trio. Haydn. Beethoven. Mendelssohn. 8:00. GRR. $16.
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The Smile o f Reason. Film. 12:00. GRR.
La pintura holandesa del siglo XVII. Visita guiada. Inés Powell. 2:30.
Catherine the Great, Collector of Collections. Lecture. Elizabeth Mostyn-Owen. 3:00. GRR.
Lost to the Revolution. Film. 4:00. GRR.
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The Age of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent. Gallery talk. Christopher Noey. 11:00.
Elegant Furniture: French and Flemish furniture in the sixteenth century. Marvin D. Schwartz. 11:00. GRR. $8.
Siileyman the Magnificent. Film. 1:00. UCA.
Degas. Degas and Ingres: Degas's unconventional history pictures. Thomas M. Folds. 2:30. GRR. $8.
Twentieth-century Paintingand Sculpture.Gallery talk. Gail Stavitsky. 3:00.
The Medici. Cosimo the Elder, first of the merchant princes: Donatello, Fra Filippo Lippi and Fra Angelico.
Claude Marks. 6:00. GRR. $10.
Rembrandt. Visita guiada. Rina Carvajal. 6:15.
In Celebration of Simplicity: The Spanish and Flemish Traditions. Gallery talk. Nanette Salomon. 7:00.
A New Look: Picasso. Rosamond Bernier. 8:00. GRR.
$20.
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American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School. Gallery talk. Merrill Halkerston. 11:00.
The Landscape Vision. The expanding world: Van Eyck’s townscapes, Leonardo’s grottoes, Venetian idylls.
Claude Marks. 11:00. GRR. $10.
Siileyman the Magnificent. Film. 1:00. UCA.
Mozart and Beethoven. Beethoven: from Bonn to Vienna. Karl Haas. 2:30. GRR. $9.
The Age of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent. Gallery talk. Christopher Noey. 3:00.
Paris in the 20’s. Josephine Baker. Mistinguett, Maurice Chevalier, Barbette. Dale Harris. 6:00. GRR. $9.
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Activities for
Young People
WEEKDAY PROGRAMS
Tuesday Evening Gallery Talks and Sketching:
Forages 5-12and their parents, 7:00-8:00. Meet at the Great Hall Information Desk. Free with Museum admission. For details, call 570-3932.
WEEKEND PROGRAMS
Family Programs—for ages 5-12 with adults.
Explore themes in the magical world of art. Families may come to one or all activities. Free with Museum admission. Begins Saturday, October 3. Uris Center for Education, 81st Street and Fifth Avenue entrance. For further information, call 570-3932.
Saturdays:
Films: Short films on weekend themes. 10:30-
11:00 and 2:00-2:30 in Uris Center Auditorium.
Gallery Program: Looking at art in the galleries
with a staff educator. Sketching and other art projects are included in each program. 11:00- 12:30 or 2:30-4:00. Tiered Seating, Uris Center for Education.
Sundays:
Slide Shows: Explore weekend themes with an
introductory slide talk, followed by independent gallery hunts. 1:00-1:30 or 3:00-3:30. Uris Conference Room.
Gallery Program: Same as Saturdays. 11:00-
12:30 only.
September Film Festival for families: Satur
days, September 12, 19, 26, 11:00-12:00 and 2:00-3:00. Free with Museum admission. Uris Center Auditorium.
Century II: A series of 5 Saturday morning programs forages 10-13. First program: Play
Ball! The Art o f Sports and Games. 10:30-12:30,
Saturday, October 24. Registration/informa tion. call 879-5500. ext. 3519.
Discoveries: A gallery tour and art workshop program for families with developmentally disabled members. Topics include Masks,
Musical Instruments, Four Seasons. Free, but advance reservations are necessary. Starts September 20. For further information and reservations, call 879-5500, ext. 3561.
The Museum program for developmentally disabled individuals and their families is sup ported by the New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, the Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation, and the Gannett Foundation.
Art Adventures: Students ages 10-15 explore
the Museum’s collections through sketching and other art activities in the galleries and studio. Free. All materials provided. Begins October4. Sundays, 1:30-3:00. Uris Classroom II.
COURSES FOR MEMBERS’ CHILDREN Parent-Child Workshops for ages 3-5; Studio Workshops for ages 4-11; Drawing in the Galleries for ages 8-15. 12 sessions (Oct.-Jan.
and Feb.-May) Registration/information, call 879-5500. ext. 3753.
Gallery Hunt Booklets
Activities on the Museum’s collections for young people to use alone or with their parents. Free at the Great Hall Information Desk.
PROGRAMS FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS Free Afterschool and Weekend Classes
For schedule of classes for high school students beginning October 6, call 570-3961.
Apprenticeship Program for High School Seniors
A work-study program for students interested in learning about museum careers and the Museum’s collections. For information call 570-3961.
TEACHER EDUCATION
Lectures, gallery talks, films, and symposia offered to the general public on Tuesday evenings and weekends provide information on the Museum and its collections useful to teachers of all grade levels and disciplines. The Uris
Library and Resource Center is also open at
these times for research purposes. For informa tion about workshops on using museum collec tions for classroom teaching, call 570-3961.
. . . AT THE CLOISTERS
Special Gallery Workshops for children (ages
5-12) and their families. Meet in the Main Hall at 1:00. Workshop materials provided. Free with admission to the Museum. For additional information call (212) 923-3700, ext. 26. Saturday, September 5: Birds
Saturday, October 3: The Legend of King Arthur
Volume 19, Number 2, September/Oetober 1987.
The Calendar/News is published bimonthly by The M etropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street, New York. N.Y. 10028. Sent free to Museum members. Editor: Ruth Gales.
Programs for young people have been funded in part by a grant from Manufacturers Hanover.
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American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School. Gallery talk. Merrill Halkerston. 11:00.
Suleyman the Magnificent.Film. 1:00. UCA.
A Sculpture of Prince Shotoku: Japan's Foremost Cultural Hero. Gallery talk (20 minutes). Gail Cushman. 3:00.
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra. Iona Brown, violin.
Grieg. Haydn, Mozart, Britten. 8:00. GRR. $15.
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In Celebration of Simplicity: The Spanish and Flemish Traditions. Gallery talk. Nanette Salomon. 11:00.
Suleyman the Magnificent. Film. 1:00. UCA.
Paradise on Earth: Masters of the Hudson River School. John F. Kensett. Lecture. Meredith Johnson. 2:00. UCA.
Richard Stoltzman, clarinet. Debussy. Schumann. Prokofieff. Saint-Saëns, Poulenc. 8:00. GRR. $15.
Artes decorativas del siglo XIX y XX. Visita guiada. María Fernández. 6:15.
Vermeer. Gallery talk. Peter L. Donhauser. 7:00.
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The Landscape Vision. Bruegel, Rubens, the Dutch masters. Claude Marks. 11:00. GRR. $10.
Zurbarán. Gallery talk. Linda Wolk. 11:00.
Mozart and Beethoven. Mozart: life with Constanze; sonatas, violin concertos. Karl Haas. 2:30. GRR. $9.
European Rooms of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Gallery talk. Linda Lovell. 3:00.
Paris in the 20’s. Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Gerald Murphy, Virgil Thomson. Dale Harris. 6:00. GRR. $9.
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Greek Sculpture. Gallery talk (sign lecture interpreted). Marvin D. Schwartz. 10:30.
Siileyman the Magnificent.Film. 1:00. UCA.
Emerson String Quartet. Haydn, Mozart, Bach. GRR. $14.
8:00
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The American Vision; American Light: The Luminist
Movement. Films. 12:00. GRR.
The Hudson River and Its Painters.Film. 1:00. GRR.
The Second Generation and the Maturing of the Hudson River School. Lecture. Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque. 2:00. GRR.
Michihiro Sato, Shamisen Folk Music of Japan. In cooperation with the Society for Asian Music. 2:30. UCA. $10.00 (general admission); $7.00 (members, senior citizens, students).
Simbolismo. Visita guiada. Manuel Borja Villel. 2:30.
Great Hornbill. Leaf from the album of Shah Jahan. India. Mughal period of Jahangir (1605-25). Signed by Mansur. Purchase. Rogers Fund, and The Kevorkian Foundation Gift, 1955
The Hudson River School After 1865. Lecture. Catherine Hoover Voorsanger. 3:00. GRR.
Creative Americans.Film. 4:00. GRR.
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European Rooms of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Gallery talk. Linda Lovell. 11:00.
Elegant Furniture. English design in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries: London and the provinces.
Marvin D. Schwartz. 11:00. GRR. $8
Degas. Gentlemanly leisure and privilege: Degas and Manet at the races. Thomas M. Folds. 2:30. GRR. $8.
Zurbaran. Gallery talk. Linda Wolk. 3:00.
The Medici. The rule of Piero il Gottoso: Work of Uccello and Benozzo and Gozzoli. Claude Marks. 6:00 GRR. $10.
Spain in the Golden Age: The Spain of Zurbaran
Lecture. J.H. Elliott. 6:00. UCA.
The Northampton. The Northampton Cycle Co... ca. 1899. by Edward Penfield. Leonard A. Lauder Collec tion of American Posters, Gift of Leonard A. Lauder, 1984
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Vermeer. Gallery talk. Peter L. Donhauser. 11:00.
A Sculpture of Prince Shotoku: Japan's Foremost Cultural Hero. Gallery talk (20 minutes). Gail Cushman. 3:00.
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Zurbaran. Visita guiada. Rina Carvajal. 11:00.
Nature’s Teachings: Poetry, Ideas, and the Hudson River School. Lecture. Robert Friedman. 2:00. UCA.
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Guameri String Quartet. Beethoven quartets. 8:00.
GRR. $16.
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The Hand o f Adam. Film. 12:00. GRR.
Landscape with Buildings.Film. 1:00. GRR.
Arte islamico. Visita guiada. Elena Quevedo. 2:30.
Napoleonic Objects in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Lecture. James David Draper. 2:30. UCA. Italy in England: The Eighteenth-century Palladian Country House. Lecture. Valerie R. Thornhill. 3:00. GRR.
The English Garden: A Temple in the Grove.Film. 4:00.
GRR.
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Renaissance Paintings in The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection. Gallery talk. Linda Lovell. 11:00.
Siileyman the Magnificent.Film. 1:00. UCA.
Degas. The Impressionist: His calculated effects of spontaneity. Thomas M. Folds. 2:30. GRR. $8. The Emperors’Albums: Images of Mughal India. Marie Lukens Swietochowski. 3:00.
Spain in the Golden Age: Cervantes and the Art World.
Lecture. Bruce W. Wardropper. 6:00. UCA.
The Medici. Verrocchio, Filippino Lippi and Botticelli.
Claude Marks. 6:00. GRR. $10.
Arte precolombino. Visita guiada. Maria Fernández. 6:15.
Photographs by Edward Weston. Gallery talk. Lisa Gerard. 7:00.
T U E S D A Y
Elegant Furniture. Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Catherine de Medici. Marvin D. Schwartz. 11:00. GRR. $8.
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The Emperors’Albums: Images of Mughal India. Marie Lukens Swietochowski. 11:00.
The Landscape Vision. The ideal landscape: Poussin, Claude Lorrain. Claude Marks. 11:00. GRR. $10.
Suleyman the Magnificent.Film. 1:00. UCA.
Mozart and Beethoven. Beethoven: Vienna of his time.
Karl Haas. 2:30. GRR. $9.
Greek Sculpture. Gallery talk. Marvin D. Schwartz. 3:00.
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Photographs by Edward Weston. Gallery talk. Lisa Gerard. 11:00.
Suleyman the Magnificent.Film. 1:00. UCA.
A Sculpture of Prince ShOtoku: Japan’s Foremost Cultural Hero. Gallery talk (20 minutes). Gail Cushman. 3:00.
James Levine and Ken Noda. Music for 4 hands and 2 pianos. Mozart. 8:00. GRR. $17.
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American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School. Gallery talk. Susan V. Mahoney. 11:00.
Siileyman the Magnificent.Film. 1:00. UCA.
Spanish Painting from El Greco to Goya. The Art of El Greco. Lecture. Linda Wolk. 2:00. UCA
Billy Taylor and the Billy Taylor Trio. The 30’s: Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson. 8:00. GRR. $10.
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Suleyman the Magnificent.Film. 1:00. UCA.
Lynn Harrell, cello. Bach, Hindemith, Donald Erb 8:00. GRR. $15.
A GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT To the City: For more than a century the City of New York and the trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art have been partners in bringing the Museum’s services to the public. The complex of buildings in Central Park is the property of the City, and the City provides for the Museum’s heat, light, and power. The City also pays for about half the costs of maintenance and security for the facility and its collections. The collections them selves are held in trust by the trustees. They, in turn, are responsible for meeting all expenses connected with conservation, education, special exhibitions, acquisitions, scholarly publications, and related activities, including security costs not covered by the City. To the State: The New York State Council on the Arts provides an annual grant toward basic operating expenses. To the late Ruth Laphant Lloyd: Her generosity assures the continuation of public hours on Tuesday evenings.
Aid from these sources, combined with the gener osity of our many visitors and friends, helps the M etropolitan to serve the public in accordance with its traditional standards of excellence.
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