SCHEDULE OF EXHIBITIONS MAY–AUGUST 2001

Franz Liszt's Grand Piano
On view through July 23, 2001
Concert demonstrations: May 3 and May 6, 2001, at 3:00 p.m.
Currently on display is the last piano owned by famed Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt (1811–86), known as a revolutionary figure of romantic music and one of the greatest pianists of his time. Manufactured around 1865 by Erard, an established piano maker of France, the grand piano was owned by Liszt during the last 15 years of his life and was used primarily for composing and teaching. It was lost after Liszt's death but was rediscovered in 1991 by the Italian pianist Carlo Dominici, current owner of the instrument. Miraculously, the soundboard was intact, and as a result of careful restoration this historic instrument was returned to playing order. Complementing the installation were two one-hour concerts by Carlo Dominici on May 3 and May 6 at 3:00 p.m. in The André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments, free with Museum admission.

African, Oceanic, and Ancient American Art: Recent Acquisitions
May 22–October 28, 2001
Works added to the collection of the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas during the past five years include objects from all of the three large geographic areas. Varied in date, place, material, and function, the selection illustrates the Department's breadth of collecting interests. The exhibition ranges from a group of Christian crosses made of brass by the Kongo peoples of Angola/Democratic Republic of Congo from the 16th to the 19th century, when Catholicism and the introduction of Christian icons led to a local transformation of the western prototype; to personal ornaments of gold and shell from Island Southeast Asia; to works of ceramic made by the Maya peoples of the tropical lowlands of Mexico/Guatemala more than a thousand years ago.

The Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Postimpressionist Masterpieces
May 24–November 25, 2001
In an annual event, the 53 paintings, drawings, and watercolors that compose the Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Postimpressionist masterworks are once again on view in the Museum's Nineteenth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture Galleries. The collection, acknowledged as one of the most distinguished in private hands, includes the work of 18 of the greatest artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries, among them Manet, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Picasso. Assembled by the Honorable Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, the collection is loaned generously by them to the Metropolitan for six months of every year.

Summer Selections: American Landscape Drawings and Watercolors in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
May 29–September 2, 2001
Beginning in 2001 and continuing in succeeding summers, selections from the Museum's rich collection of drawings, watercolors, and pastels by 18th- and 19th-century American artists will be mounted in The Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art. Landscapes are highlighted this summer, including works by Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, George Inness, Winslow Homer, John La Farge, and Maurice Prendergast.

Jacques and Natasha Gelman Galleries: The School of Paris
Opened June 1, 2001
On the occasion of the dedication of the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Galleries on the first floor of the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing, the Metropolitan Museum is presenting 50 outstanding works by modern masters from the Gelman collection. These gifts include six paintings by Picasso; five by Matisse; five by Miró; four by Bonnard; four by Braque; three by Léger; two by Dubuffet, Gris, Tanguy, and Vlaminck respectively; single examples by Brauner, Chagall, de Chirico, Dalí, Derain, Ernst, Modigliani, Mondrian, and Rouault; and three bronzes and one painting by Giacometti. These prime works by painters of the School of Paris—most of which were not previously shown in the Museum's recent exhibition Painters in Paris: 1895–1950—range in date from 1905 to 1967. Several are icons of 20th-century art.

Dancing on the Roof: Photography and the Bauhaus (1923–1929)
June 5–August 26, 2001
The first exhibition in New York to focus on photography and the Bauhaus, this show brings together approximately 60 rare, often unique, photographs from New York area collections that were created by Bauhaus students and teachers between 1923 and 1929—a period of freewheeling innovation before photography became an official part of the school's curriculum. Photographs by László Moholy-Nagy, Lux Feininger, Umbo, and others reflect both the dynamism and turbulence of the era and the optimism, energy, and experimental liberties of life and work at the Bauhaus.

Photographs: A Decade of Collecting
June 5–September 2, 2001
This celebration of the Metropolitan Museum's acquisitions during the ten years since the establishment of an independent Department of Photographs focuses on two areas of special interest: French photographs of the 1850s and 1860s, and photographs since 1960.

Terry Winters: Printed Works
June 12–September 30, 2001
Born in 1949, the American artist Terry Winters is primarily known for his paintings and drawings. He is also, however, one of the most distinguished printmakers working today. This exhibition of 90 prints, all from the Museum's collection, focuses on his mastery of a wide range of media—lithography, intaglio, woodcut, and linoleum cut—including works made at the Aldo Crommelynck studio in Paris and at Universal Limited Art Editions in West Islip, Long Island.
The accompanying publication is made possible, in part, by the Roswell L. Gilpatric Fund for Publications.

A Century of Design, Part IV: 1975–2000
June 26, 2001–January 6, 2002
A confluence of styles, materials, techniques, and trends characterizes this exhibition, the last in a series surveying 20th-century design around the world through the presentation of significant objects in all media drawn from the Museum's collection. Ranging from the postmodernist avant-garde, who challenged the stylistic rigors of modernism by returning to motifs of the past, to high-tech and bold experimentation, the presentation features important objects by celebrated designers such as Tadao Ando, Ricardo Bofill, Sir Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Michael Graves, Shiro Kuramata, Ettore Sottsass, Philippe Starck, Robert Venturi, and others. Also on view are works by younger designers—Ross Lovegrove, Reiko Sudo, and Artel II, to name just a few—practicing at the vanguard of a field now marked by more innovation, novelty, and variance than ever before.

Dress Rehearsal: Origins of The Costume Institute
August 1–October 28, 2001
The Costume Institute houses a collection of more than 85,000 costumes and accessories from four centuries and five continents. At its nucleus is the collection of the former Museum of Costume Art, organized by a theater-oriented group of civic leaders led by the New York philanthropist and savant Irene Lewisohn. For the first time since its inception in 1937, a rare selection from the Museum of Costume Art will be on view to explore the foundation of collecting that has established the roots of the renowned collection of The Costume Institute. Over 75 items will be on display, with highlights that include early folk costumes, historic fashions such as Queen Alexandra's coronation year wardrobe, and 20th-century haute couture.

Along the Nile: Early Photographs of Egypt
September 11–December 30, 2001
This installation of approximately 45 19th-century photographs of Egypt will include some of the earliest camera images of Egypt's landscapes, inhabitants, and dramatically imposing monuments. The pyramids of Giza, the temples of Karnak, Luxor, and Abu Simbel, and the cataracts of the Nile are depicted in exceptionally fine prints by the first generation of photographers working in Egypt, including Maxime Du Camp, Félix Teynard, John Beasley Greene, Ernest Benecke, Gustave Le Gray, Francis Frith, Felice Beato, and W. Hammerschmidt. The works are drawn from the Gilman Paper Company Collection and the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.

The Pharaoh's Photographer: Harry Burton, Tutankhamun, and the Metropolitan's Egyptian Expedition
September 11–December 30, 2001
Chosen from the archives of the Department of Egyptian Art, some 60 photographs taken between 1906 and 1939 by members of the Metropolitan Museum's Egyptian Expedition will be shown. A collaboration between the Department of Egyptian Art and the Department of Photographs, the exhibition will present these images both in their context as important documents of the Museum's excavations and as works of artistic merit that deserve a place in the history of photography. The majority of the photographs are by Harry Burton (1879–1940), the outstanding archaeological photographer of his day. Trained as an art photographer in Florence, Italy, he was hired by the Metropolitan to make a photographic record of ancient Egyptian monuments at Thebes (including architecture, reliefs, and wall paintings). He also became the photographer for the Museum's excavation team and, after the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, his services were shared with Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon. All phases of Burton's work in Egypt will be represented, including selections from his Tutankhamun portfolio and film footage dating to the early 1920s.

Caspar David Friedrich: Moonwatchers
September 11–November 11, 2001
This small but intriguing exhibition celebrates the Museum's acquisition of its first work by the German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), Two Men Contemplating the Moon. The painting, one of three extant versions of this famous motif, will be joined for the first time by its two variants in Dresden and Berlin as well as several other works by Friedrich's artist friends Carus, Dahl, Gille, and Heinrich.
The accompanying publication is made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Drawings and Prints
September 25–December 2, 2001
Among the most innovative and influential artists of his age, the beloved 16th-century Netherlandish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525/30–1569) was also a remarkable draftsman and designer of prints. This exhibition will include 54 of the 61 extant drawings by the artist, in addition to some 50 prints designed by him, as well as a selection of drawings formerly attributed to Bruegel. Culled from European and North American public and private collections, this exhibition will present the largest number of Bruegel's drawings ever assembled and will reflect recent advances in scholarship and attribution, providing an opportunity to reassess his importance and impact as a graphic artist.
The exhibition is made possible in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The exhibition has been organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
The accompanying publication is made possible by Karen B. Cohen and The Drue E. Heinz Fund.

Courtly Radiance: Metalwork from Islamic India
September 25, 2001–March 25, 2002
The craft of metalwork in India gave splendid form to many functional and decorative objects, drawing inspiration from a rich heritage within India as well as the larger Islamic world. This exhibition will include approximately 20 examples of silver, bronze, copper, and other metals fashioned into vessels, objects of daily and ceremonial use, and sculptural forms. These objects, dating primarily from the 16th to the 19th century, reveal varied technical and decorative effects—casting, etching, chasing, inlay, hammered relief—and are complemented by select paintings that illustrate their use. The exhibition is made possible by The Hagop Kevorkian Fund.

Glass of the Sultans
October 2, 2001–January 13, 2002
On display will be a selection of approximately 160 of the most spectacular glass objects from the Islamic world, ranging from those inspired by the late antique tradition in the 7th century to 19th-century Persian and Indian glass. Also included will be European glass from the 13th to the 20th century, made for the Oriental market or directly inspired by Islamic models, as well as a selection of glass found at various archaeological sites.
The exhibition is made possible by The Hagop Kevorkian Fund and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The exhibition has been organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Corning Museum of Glass.
An indemnity has been granted by the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
The accompanying catalogue is made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Signac 1863–1935: Master Neo-Impressionist
October 9–December 30, 2001
Approximately 120 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints constitute the first major retrospective in almost 40 years to be devoted to the Neo-Impressionist artist Paul Signac (1863–1935). This long-overdue tribute to Signac's power of expression will trace the artist's development from the luminous plein-air paintings he made in the early 1880s under the influence of Monet's Impressionism; to his close association with Georges Seurat, from 1884 until 1891, which became the starting point for his exploration of color harmony, contrasts, and Neo-Impressionist (or "pointillist") technique; to the scintillating works of his maturity, where the rigors of pointillist style give way to richly patterned, mosaic-like surfaces of color.
The exhibition is made possible by The Florence Gould Foundation.
The exhibition was organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Réunion des musées nationaux/Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
The accompanying catalogue is made possible in part by the Janice H. Levin Fund.

Neo-Impressionism: The Circle of Paul Signac
October 2–December 30, 2001
Organized to complement Signac 1863–1935: Master Neo-Impressionist, this exhibition will bring together approximately 60 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints from the Metropolitan's collection. The exhibition will feature works by Signac's friends and followers Georges Seurat, Maximilien Luce, Henri-Edmond Cross, Camille Pissarro, and Henri Matisse, and will underscore the richness of the Museum's holdings of artists working in the style they championed.
The exhibition is made possible by Robert Lehman Foundation, Inc.

Klee Figures
October 5, 2001–January 13, 2002
The figure as interpreted by Klee in oil, watercolor, gouache, and pen and ink. The panoply of personages assembled includes lovers, hypocrites, an angel applicant, Adam and little Eve, and a ventriloquist, and spans the years 1908 to 1938.

Candace Wheeler: The Art and Enterprise of American Design, 1875–1900
October 10, 2001–January 6, 2002
Candace Wheeler (1827–1924) was America's first important woman textile and interior designer. Through approximately 105 textiles, wallpapers, paintings, photographs, and objects, this exhibition will survey Wheeler's long life and the highlights of her career. The main focus of the exhibition will be the years between 1877, when Wheeler founded the Society of Decorative Art in New York, and 1893, when she served as the interior decorator of the Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Her textile designs, many based upon American plants and flowers drawn in sinuously flowing patterns, will be central to the exhibition. In addition to Wheeler's own designs, the show will feature examples of paintings, graphics, and furniture by her associates, such as Louis Comfort Tiffany and Lockwood de Forest.
The accompanying publication is made possible by the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation Inc.

"Treasury of the World": Jeweled Arts of India in the Age of the Mughals
October 18, 2001–January 13, 2002
The Mughal rulers of India (1526–1858) maintained a court that was renowned for its wealth, high culture, and love of precious objects, all of which were epitomized in the jeweled arts of the period. Drawn from the uniquely extensive holdings of The al-Sabah Collection in Kuwait, this dazzling display will present some 300 works of the Mughal period, including jeweled items of personal adornment, princely weapons, delicately carved jade and crystal bowls set with precious stones, spinel gems, and other historically important jewels from several imperial reigns, as well as the sumptuous and refined courts of the Deccan, in the southern part of India. The exhibition will also be on view at the British Museum in London, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Art in Houston, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
The exhibition is organized by The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait National Museum, in collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The exhibition is made possible in part by the Gail and Parker Gilbert Fund.
Accompanied by a catalogue.

Annual Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche
November 24, 2001–January 6, 2002
The Museum will continue a long-standing holiday tradition with the annual presentation of its Christmas tree, a favorite of New Yorkers and visitors from around the world. A vivid 18th-century Neapolitan crèche scene—embellished with a profuse array of diminutive, lifelike attendant figures and silk-robed angels hovering above—adorns the candlelit spruce. Recorded music adds to the enjoyment of the holiday display. Lighting ceremony Friday and Saturday evenings at 7:00.
The installation is made possible by The Loretta Hines Howard Trust.

Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed
December 6, 2001–March 3, 2002
Over time and across cultures, extraordinary manipulations of the body have occurred in a continuing evolution of the concept of beauty. This exhibition will offer a unique opportunity to see fashion as the practice of some of the most extreme strategies to conform to shifting concepts of the physical ideal. Various zones of the body—neck, shoulders, bust, waist, hips, and feet—have been constricted, padded, truncated, or extended through subtle visual adjustments of proportion, less subtle prosthesis, and often deliberate physical deformation. Costumes in the exhibition—ranging from a 16th-century iron corset to Thierry Mugler's notorious "Motorcycle" bustier—will be augmented by anthropological and ethnographic examples and by paintings, prints, and drawings, including caricatures by Gillray, Cruikshank, Daumier, and Vernet.
Accompanied by a catalogue.

Splendid Isolation: Art of Easter Island
December 12, 2001–August 4, 2002
Few Pacific islands hold as prominent a place in the Western imagination as Easter Island. The most remote inhabited place on earth, this enigmatic island is home to the Rapa Nui, a Polynesian people who developed a unique series of artistic traditions. While the island is renowned for the colossal stone figures that adorn its sacred temples, much of its art remains unfamiliar to wider audiences. The first American exhibition devoted to Easter Island art, Splendid Isolation: Art of Easter Island will present more than 50 works examining the island's diverse artistic heritage. Featuring objects from the Metropolitan's collection as well as loans from museums and private collectors in the United States and Canada—many on public display for the first time—Splendid Isolation will explore Easter Island's distinctive art forms as expressions of supernatural and secular power. Dating from the 13th to the late 19th century, the works in the exhibition will range from robust stone images to refined wooden sculpture, rare barkcloth figures, and examples of rongorongo, the island's unique and undeciphered script.
The accompanying publication is made possible, in part, by the Mary C. and James W. Fosburgh Publications Fund.

Benjamin Brecknell Turner: Rural England through a Victorian Lens
January 23–April 21, 2002
In the early 1850s, Benjamin Brecknell Turner (1815–1894) photographed picturesque, quintessentially English, country scenes: ruined abbeys and castles, thatched barns, crumbling cottages, timber-framed houses, stone bridges, ancient oak trees, and village churches. Turner's prints—large-format, richly toned albumen silver prints—are especially rare because he pursued photography only as an avocation and much of his personal collection was later destroyed in a fire. This exhibition of approximately 40 works is drawn almost entirely from a magnificent album assembled by Turner and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
The exhibition is organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The exhibition is made possible by The Hite Foundation.
Accompanied by a catalogue.

Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes 1949–50
Mid-January–April 2002
Now in his early eighties, Irving Penn is one of the world's great photographers. These photographs, drawn from Penn's own collection, were taken during a number of intensive sessions that he conducted in 1949. The voluptuous, faceless, sculptural forms depicted in these intimate photographs were, in many ways, the antithesis of the bodies of the fashion models with whom he worked on editorial assignments. The display of these approximately 80 works—some rather painterly versions printed in 1950, other larger-scale platinum prints from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s—enables the public for the first time to view the extent of this compelling series.
Accompanied by a catalogue.

Surrealism: Desire Unbound
February 1–May 5, 2002
A central theme of Surrealism, a major artistic movement of the 20th century, was desire in its many manifestations. The first major survey of Surrealism in over 20 years, this exhibition will present the richness and diversity of this obsessive but very human and constant theme through 400 paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, films, poetry, and texts. The works date from the decade anticipating the founding of Surrealism in 1924 to more recent art. Artists represented include Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, René Magritte, André Masson, Joan Miró, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, and Man Ray. Many of the icons of the Surrealist dream will be displayed as well as important works by artists not yet widely known. The achievement of women associated with the Surrealists, usually overlooked in previous surveys, will be strongly represented by artists such as Frida Kahlo and Dorothea Tanning.
The exhibition is organized by the Tate Modern, London.

Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi:
Father and Daughter Painters in Baroque Italy
February 14–May 12, 2002
Organized in collaboration with the Soprintendenza of Rome and the Saint Louis Art Museum, this is the first full-scale exhibition devoted to Caravaggio's most gifted and individual follower, Orazio Gentileschi, and to Orazio's celebrated daughter, Artemisia. Featuring approximately 40 works by Orazio and 30 by Artemisia, this will be the first exhibition to treat these two remarkable artists in depth. Orazio was among the first artists to respond to Caravaggio's revolutionary method of painting from posed models. From this experience he created his own very personal and poetic style, in which realism is tempered by a refined sense of beauty. In Italy he worked in Rome and Genoa as well as in the region of the Marches, and he was also active in France and England, where he was court painter to the queen. Artemisia has received much popular attention and is the subject of two biographical novels. However, her reputation as an artist has been overwhelmed by the notorious public trial that followed her rape by an associate of her father's when she was still a teenager. A figure of enormous determination, she became an artist of remarkable qualities: the first woman who managed to live exclusively by her brush and who refused to be bound by the conventions usually imposed on female artists (still-life painting and portraiture were the areas deemed proper to a woman).
The accompanying publication is made possible by the Doris Duke Fund for Publications.

Treasures from a Lost Civilization: Ancient Chinese Art from Sichuan
March 5–June 16, 2002
This exhibition will present the fascinating world of the art, material culture, and spiritual life of ancient Sichuan, in southwestern China, that field archaeology has just uncovered in the last 15 years. The 127 works of art on exhibit will include monumental bronze images of deities, lively human figures, fantastic bronze vessels, exquisite jades, and spirited ceramic sculptures dating from the 13th century B.C. to the 3rd century A.D. They are among the most unusual and spectacular works of art produced anywhere in the ancient world, and most of them will be shown for the first time in the United States. This exhibition will provide rare access to a previously unknown artistic and cultural tradition as well as an opportunity to reexamine the early phase of Chinese civilization.
The exhibition was organized by the Seattle Art Museum in collaboration with The Bureau of Cultural Relics, Sichuan Province of the People's Republic of China. The Boeing Company provided the leadership grant for the exhibition with major support from the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation. Additional funding provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
In New York, the exhibition is made possible in part by The Dillon Fund.

Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence
March 14–June 19, 2002
The first tapestry exhibition in the United States in 25 years, and the first major survey of tapestry production between 1460 and 1560, this exhibition will highlight the great cycles of the late 15th and first half of the 16th centuries as the unsung glories of Renaissance art. Considered the art form of kings, tapestries were a principal part of the ostentatious "Magnificence" expected of any powerful ruler, and courts and churches lavished vast sums on costly weavings in silk and gold thread from designs by leading artists such as Raphael, Giulio Romano, and Bronzino. The exhibition will feature 50 of the greatest tapestries of the day along with about 40 preparatory drawings and cartoon fragments drawn from 35 collections (including the Vatican, the Louvre, and the British Royal Collection) in 13 countries. The exhibition will explore the stylistic and technical development of tapestry production in the Low Countries, France, and Italy from 1460 to 1560 and highlight the contributions that the medium made to the art, liturgy, and propaganda of the day.
The accompanying publication is made possible by the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation Inc. and the Doris Duke Fund for Publications.

Correggio and Parmigianino: Master Draftsmen of the Renaissance
Through May 6, 2001
Correggio and Parmigianino were two of the greatest masters of the Emilian school of early 16th-century Italy. This exhibition of more than 130 drawings from English and North American public and private collections marks the first time that a major selection of their drawings has been shown together. On view are a wide variety of drawing types by the two artists—rapid sketches, careful life studies, and spirited composition drafts, as well as monumental finished drawings—to illustrate the range of their creative powers. Many of the works included were preparatory for oil paintings and frescoes that are now considered milestones in the history of Italian art.
The exhibition is made possible in part by Parmalat.
Additional support has been provided by The Schiff Foundation.
The exhibition has been organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The British Museum.
An indemnity has been granted by the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
Accompanied by a catalogue.

William Trost Richards in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Through May 13, 2001
The American artist William Trost Richards (1833–1905) was associated with both the Hudson River School and the American Pre-Raphaelite movement. Landscapes in oil, watercolor, graphite, and ink from the Museum's collection of his works are shown with selections from a private collection of Richards's charming postcard-size watercolors of landscape and marine subjects in Pennsylvania, New England, and the British Isles.

Photography: Processes, Preservation, and Conservation
Through May 20, 2001
Celebrating the opening of the new Sherman Fairchild Center for Works on Paper and Photograph Conservation, this exhibition explains various photographic processes and explores issues of connoisseurship, condition, preservation, and treatment. The selection of photographic prints and negatives displayed—from throughout the medium's history and running the gamut from superbly preserved to significantly time-worn—is accompanied by revealing examples of before- and after-treatment documentation, microscopic views, and explanatory texts.
The exhibition and its accompanying brochure are made possible by the Henry Nias Foundation, Inc.

Balthus Remembered
Through May 27, 2001
A special memorial installation of seven paintings by Balthus (1908–2001)—one of which, Pierre Matisse (1938), is on public view for the first time—is being displayed in the Robert Lehman Wing through May 27. The Museum's tribute also features Summertime (1935), The Mountain (1937), Thérèse Awake (1938), Thérèse Dreaming (1938), Nude before a Mirror (1955), and Girl at a Window (1957), all drawn from the collection of the Metropolitan. Pierre Matisse is from a private collection. Balthus, who died on February 18, was the last surviving master of the School of Paris—the famed group of artists who lived and worked in Paris during the first half of the 20th century, pioneering new and innovative forms of expression. Best known for his psychologically probing portraits and his depictions of adolescent girls, Balthus was also a painter of Parisian street scenes and luminous landscapes.

A Century of Design, Part III: 1950–1975
Through May 27, 2001
This is the third in a four-part series of exhibitions surveying design in the 20th century through the presentation of significant objects in all media by major modernist designers from around the world, drawn from the Museum's collection. The more than 50 works on view display the wide range of idioms and the artistic exploration of new materials, technologies, and aesthetics that characterized design in Europe and America from the postwar years to the postmodern era. The exhibition follows the continuation of organic modernism in America and Scandinavia, the rise of the studio craft movement, the resurgence of Italian modernist design, and the influence of Pop Art and other avant-garde movements on design and decoration. Included are works by such leading designers as Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, Verner Panton, Hans Wegner, Wharton Esherick, Joe Colombo, Piero Fornasetti, Gio Ponti, and Richard Sapper.

Sultan ^cAli of Mashhad, Master of Nasta^cliq
Through May 27, 2001
This exhibition examines the elegant calligraphy of the acknowledged master of nasta^cliq—the writing style likened to flying geese that was favored in 15th- and 16th-century Iran for poetical texts—and two of his famous pupils. Some 20 examples of manuscripts and specimen pages, many enlivened with brilliant illumination, are drawn from the Museum's holdings, supplemented by a few works from outside collections. The exhibition is made possible by The Hagop Kevorkian Fund.

Vermeer and the Delft School
Through May 27, 2001
The Delft School is best known for its quiet images of domestic life by Johannes Vermeer and Pieter de Hooch. These and other Delft artists painted views of the households, courtyards, church interiors, streets, and squares of Delft during the 1650s and 1660s. However, Delft masters also produced history pictures in an international style, highly refined flower paintings, princely portraits, and superb examples of the decorative arts.
Featuring 85 paintings by some 30 artists (including 15 by Vermeer and 10 by Pieter de Hooch), 35 drawings, and smaller selections of tapestries, gilded silver, and Delftware faience, this exhibition casts the familiar "Delft School" in a new light—one that emphasizes the roles of the neighboring court at The Hague, and of sophisticated patrons in Delft.
The exhibition is sponsored by BP.
The exhibition has been organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in collaboration with The National Gallery, London.
An indemnity has been granted by the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
The accompanying publication is made possible in part by The Christian Humann Foundation.
Additional support has been provided by the Doris Duke Fund for Publications.

The Treasury of Basel Cathedral
Through June 3, 2001
The medieval treasury of Basel Cathedral miraculously survived an earthquake, wars, iconoclasm, and the Reformation, only to be dispersed as a result of political division in the early 19th century. Based on inventories and other documents, all of the objects belonging to the treasury have been identified and, today, over half are in the Historisches Museum Basel while the remaining ones are in museum collections in Amsterdam, Berlin, London, New York, Saint Petersburg, Paris, Vienna, and Zurich. This exhibition unites more than 75 of these splendid ecclesiastical and secular objects, the vast majority of which have never before traveled to the United States. The works date from the early 11th through the early 16th century, spanning the Ottonian period to the Reformation. Most are of gold and silver—many encrusted with precious stones, rock crystal, antique gems, or translucent enamels—but there are also textiles and objects of bronze, gilded copper, and wood on display, including the doors of the original storage cupboard.
The exhibition is made possible in part by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation.
Additional support has been provided by Pro Helvetia, Arts Council of Switzerland.
The exhibition has been organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Historisches Museum Basel, Switzerland.
An indemnity has been granted by the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
The accompanying publication is made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

William Blake
Through June 24, 2001
The first major exhibition ever to be held in New York to address all aspects of the work of this important British Romantic painter, printmaker, and poet, William Blake presents more than 175 works drawn from public and private collections in Britain, the United States, and Australia. The exhibition represents the broad range of Blake's artistic and poetic vision, with special attention to his innovative printmaking techniques, his visionary imagination, and the implications of his radical politics for his art.
The exhibition is supported by The Isaacson-Draper Foundation.
The exhibition was organized by Tate Britain.
Accompanied by a catalogue.

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Chinese Paintings from the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Through August 19, 2001
This selection from the Ellsworth Collection at the Metropolitan Museum focuses on Chinese painting created during the period of clashing social visions and dramatic political change that marked China's entry into the modern world. In the arts, it was a time when the tensions between tradition and innovation, native and foreign styles, reached an unprecedented level of intensity. The Ellsworth Collection encompasses nearly all of the traditional masters working during this period, including major examples by the Shanghai School masters Wu Changshuo (1844–1927) and Wang Zhen (1867–1938), the Western-influenced reformer Xu Beihong (1895–1953), and the advocates of a new traditionalism: Fu Baoshi (1904–1965) and Zhang Daqian (Chang Dai-chien, 1899–1983). Of particular note is the large concentration of works by Qi Baishi (1864–1957), one of the best-known Chinese painters of all time.
The exhibition and its accompanying publications are made possible by The Dillon Fund.

Landscapes by Klee and Kiefer
Through September 30, 2001
An installation of watercolors by the German painters Paul Klee (1879–1940) and Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945). However different their creative expression may appear, common threads exist between the early watercolors of the two artists. Both drew inspiration from similar sources, be it German literature, philosophy, music, or voyages to far-away places.

Looking at You
Through September 30, 2001
A small but special installation of 20th-century self-portraits, most of which, in differing situations, mirror the direct gaze of their 20 artist-subjects.

European Helmets, 1450–1650
Through late December 2001
Helmets are the earliest known form of body armor and remain today an essential element of protection for soldiers as well as sportsmen. In the later Middle Ages and Renaissance, helmet design reached its apogee, the European armorer creating head defenses of ingenious construction and powerful sculptural form. The Museum's holdings of European helmets are among the largest and most diverse in the world. This exhibition offers a representative survey of some 75 helmets drawn entirely from storage, revealing the depth of the collection and a glimpse of objects that are rarely on public display.
The accompanying publication is made possible by the Grancsay Fund.

The Forgotten Friezes from the Castle of Vélez Blanco
Through January 6, 2002
An extraordinary group of six spectacular carved pine friezes has been lent to celebrate the Museum's May 2000 reopening of the renovated Renaissance patio from the Fajardo castle at Vélez Blanco in southern Spain (see page 18). Recently discovered at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, these 16th-century reliefs, each nearly 20 feet in length, were once part of the interior decoration of the rooms adjoining the patio and are boldly carved with classical and mythological scenes.

Sculpture and Decorative Arts of the Spanish Renaissance
Through January 6, 2002
The Museum's small but select collection of Spanish polychrome sculpture—among the most important such holdings in the U.S.—is displayed in the gallery adjacent to the recently reopened Vélez Blanco Patio (see page 18). The sculptures, dating from the early 16th to the mid-17th century, are augmented by groupings of Spanish decorative arts, displayed to reveal the varied strands of influence—Moorish, Flemish, and Italian Renaissance—that enriched the vibrant material culture of Renaissance Spain.

Enlightening Pursuits
The Arts of Japan in The Sackler Galleries for Asian Art
Through September 16, 2001
Featuring some 200 works dating from the Neolithic period to the late 19th century, the new installation in the arts of Japan galleries welcomes spring. Drawn from the Museum's holdings and private collections, the presentation—which includes hanging scrolls, handscrolls, folding screens, ceramics, Buddhist sculpture, textiles, and ukiyo-e—elucidates cultural practices and seasonal observances. The highlights are the elaborate and charming figurines (Ningy-ō), traditionally displayed to mark seasonal festivals; a rare early scroll of the Zen ox-herding parable; a recently discovered painting of Hotei; and a newly acquired 14th-century painting Dakini Ten. The installation also includes several celebrated works such as the monumental 14th-century scroll depicting the Buddha's Nirvana; Kano Sansetsu's magnificent sliding panels Old Plum; and Korin's Iris by an Eight-plank Bridge. Stunning Negoro lacquers and ukiyo-e prints by Harunobu (until June 3) are also on view.

Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries for Byzantine Art
Opened November 14, 2000
This past fall, the new Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries for Byzantine art opened in a dramatically expanded and redesigned space that includes an intimate, cryptlike gallery under the Grand Staircase in the Great Hall—an area never before accessible to the public. Featured in the installation is the Museum's extensive collection of superb secular and religious art produced in the Byzantine Empire from its capital in Constantinople to its southern border in Egypt. Some of the earliest images developed by the Christian church are on display as well as contemporary works from the surviving Greco-Roman tradition and examples of Jewish art. Selections from the Museum's rich collection of provincial Roman and barbarian jewelry demonstrate the accomplished artistry of the diverse people beyond the western borders of the Byzantine state who helped shape early Europe. The opening of the Jaharis Galleries constitutes the first phase in the planned reinstallation of the permanent collection of the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters.

Vélez Blanco Patio
Reopened May 12, 2000
The early 16th-century Fajardo castle at Vélez Blanco was an important landmark in the history of the Spanish Renaissance. The delicate ornamental carved marbles that composed the castle's magnificent arcaded patio were acquired early in the 20th century for installation in the Park Avenue home of George Blumenthal, a future president of the Metropolitan Museum, and were bequeathed to the Museum at the time of his death in 1941. The patio, which was reconstructed at the Museum in 1964 and became commonly known as the Blumenthal Patio, has for the past three years undergone conservation and refurbishment with the addition of a new marble floor more in keeping with the original structure. In celebration of the reopening of the patio, The Forgotten Friezes from the Castle of Vélez Blanco and Sculpture and Decorative Arts of the Spanish Renaissance are also on view.

The New Cypriot Galleries
Opened April 5, 2000
With the opening of the Cypriot Galleries, some 600 works from the historic Cesnola Collection—comprising antiquities from Cyprus in all major media and ranging in date from ca. 2500 B.C. to ca. A.D. 300—have returned to public view. The newly designed installation marks the end of Phase II in the renovation of the Greek and Roman Galleries. Acquired by Luigi Palma di Cesnola while he was serving as American consul in Cyprus, these works were purchased by the newly formed Metropolitan Museum between 1874 and 1876 and constituted its first large collection of archaeological materials. In 1879, Cesnola was named the Museum's first director. The new presentation emphasizes the collection's particular strengths in the areas of sculpture, bronze, and precious metals.
Accompanied by a publication.

New Galleries for Ancient Near Eastern Art
Opened October 19, 1999
Newly renovated and reinstalled, with natural light now illuminating the Assyrian reliefs within, the galleries that house the permanent collection of the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art have reopened to the public. The installation displays sculpture, metalwork, seals, and other objects dating from 8000 B.C. to A.D. 700 from ancient Mesopotamia, Iran, and their neighbors, ranging from Anatolia and the Arabian Peninsula to the Indus Valley, and Central Asia to the Mediterranean Sea. Throughout the galleries, these works of art are set in contexts that illuminate their use and significance in antiquity as well as their connections to the art of neighboring cultures. Among the strengths of the collection are objects excavated by Museum-sponsored projects at Nippur, Nimrud, and Hasanlu; superb ivories from Anatolia, Syria, and Mesopotamia; silver and gold objects from Iran; and foreign long-term loans from the Israel Antiquities Authority, the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of the Academy of Sciences, Tajikistan, the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, and the British Museum, London.
Support for the reinstallation of the Galleries for Ancient Near Eastern Art has been provided by The Hagop Kevorkian Fund.

The New Greek Galleries
Opened April 20, 1999
Seven completely renovated and reinstalled galleries for Archaic and Classical Greek art are now open to the public on the Museum's first floor. This stage in the three-phase expansion of the exhibition space devoted to Greek and Roman art comprises the Mary and Michael Jaharis Gallery—the grand vaulted gallery that was formerly known as the Cypriot corridor, now fully skylit and clad in limestone walls as originally envisioned by McKim, Mead and White in 1917—and the six flanking galleries. Refurbished to their original Neoclassical grandeur, the galleries house a generous selection of the Museum's finest works from the sixth through fourth century B.C. The new galleries constitute the largest and most comprehensive permanent installation of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.

Arts of Korea
Opened June 9, 1998
The opening of the new, permanent gallery for the Arts of Korea represents the final stage in the Museum's master plan for the presentation of Asian art. Currently on view is an exhibition of ceramics dating from the Bronze Age (ca. 10th–ca. 3rd century B.C.) to the Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1910) drawn from the permanent holdings of the Metropolitan and the renowned collection of the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, as well as metalwork, sculpture, and paintings from the Metropolitan Museum's collection.
The establishment of and program for the Arts of Korea Gallery have been made possible by The Korea Foundation and The Kun-Hee Lee Fund for Korean Art.

PLEASE NOTE: These exhibitions originate at The Metropolitan Museum of Art with works of art from the Museum's collections selected and organized by Museum staff members. Please confirm the opening and closing dates with the local exhibiting museums as they may be subject to change.

American Impressionists Abroad and at Home:
Paintings from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
These 39 works by 28 artists illuminate the training that the American Impressionists undertook abroad and at home; the complex attractions of Europe and America; the significance of the subjects they depicted; and their various responses to French Impressionism. Tour organized with the American Federation of Arts.

San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
January 26–April 22, 2001

Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
May 11–August 5, 2001

Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
August 24–November 18, 2001

Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
December 7, 2001–March 3, 2002

New York State Museum, Albany, NY
March 22–June 16, 2002

Winslow Homer and His Contemporaries:
American Prints from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Popular and fine prints from the Museum's collection by Homer himself and artists active during his career, including Edwin A. Abbey, John G. Brown, Edwin Forbes, Mary Cassatt, Thomas Moran, Stephen Parrish, James Whistler, and J. Alden Weir. Tour organized with the Gallery Association of New York State (GANYS).
Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, PA
March 24–May 20, 2001

New York State Historical Association/
Fenimore House Museum, Cooperstown, NY
Summer 2001 (tentative)

Munson-Williams Proctor Institute Museum of Art, Utica, NY
March 10–April 28, 2002

American Modern, 1925–1940: Design for a New Age
Furniture, clocks, appliances, lamps, textiles, posters, and more from the Museum's collection and the John C. Waddell Collection—a major promised gift to the Metropolitan—created by the first generation of American industrial designers. Tour organized with the American Federation of Arts.

Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
May 25–August 19, 2001

Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
September 14–December 16, 2001

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
January 11–April 7, 2002

Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte, NC
May 3–July 28, 2002

Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
August 23–November 17, 2002

Twentieth-Century American Landscapes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A selection of 40 American paintings from the Museum's Department of Modern Art.
New York State Museum, Albany, NY
May 29–October 14, 2001

The Print in the North: The Age of Albrecht Dürer and Lucas van Leyden
Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Based on the Metropolitan Museum's 1997 exhibition, a selection of masterpieces from the Museum's exceptional collection of German and Netherlandish prints from 1440 to 1550—the age in which printmaking came into its own. Tour organized with the American Federation of Arts.
Venues to be determined
Traveling as of March 2002