SCHEDULE OF EXHIBITIONS MAY—AUGUST, 2002

As It Happened: Photographs from the Gilman Paper Company Collection
May 7–August 25, 2002
From an intimate séance to a World War II battlefield and from a solar eclipse to the scaling of Mont Blanc, approximately 50 rarely seen photographic treasures bear witness to events large and small, providing a vivid and beautiful record of the world during the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th. Drawn from the renowned Gilman Paper Company Collection.

New York, New York: Photographs from the Collection
May 7–August 25, 2002
This exhibition of some 60 works from the Museum's collection surveys photography in New York City from the era of the daguerreotype to the 1970s, and includes E.A. Anthony's famous stereoscopic view of Broadway on a rainy day (1859), Edward Steichen's intense, chromatic study of the Flatiron Building (1904), and Helen Levitt's lyrical scenes of children at play on the city's lively streets and colorful stoops (1930—70s).

Adrian: American Glamour
May 14–August 18, 2002
Gilbert Adrian (1903—1959) was one of the most quintessentially American of 20th-century designers as well as a Hollywood costumer of great renown, who dressed Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Katharine Hepburn, and Joan Crawford for the screen to memorable effect. His fashion designs, no less dramatic, united a midcentury modernist sensibility with an extraordinarily engineered technique that continues to inspire designers to this day. This retrospective depicts both aspects of his career. Adrian's sketches and photographs of the period accompany his costumes for MGM as well as the most important examples of his fashion work.

Klee's Best
May 24–September 8, 2002
An installation of highlights from the Berggruen Klee Collection comprising watercolors, drawings, and paintings. The selection includes the rarely shown watercolors that the artist created in Tunisia in 1914, which were instrumental in his path toward abstraction.

The Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Postimpressionist Masterpieces
June 1–mid-November 2002
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: Scenes and Citizens of the Early Republic in Watercolor
June 4–September 8, 2002
Coincident with the Metropolitan Museum's showing of Thomas Eakins, the second annual installation of Summer Selections features 50 watercolors by two artists active in Philadelphia, Eakins's hometown, earlier in the 19th century. The exhibition comprises genre scenes, landscapes, and portraits, most by Pavel Petrovich Svinin and several recently attributed to John Lewis Krimmel. Many of the pictures represent early-19th-century street life in Philadelphia, where Svinin, a Russian diplomat, was headquartered for several years. Krimmel, a German émigré, lived in Philadelphia, producing some of the earliest genre paintings in American art.

Herzfeld in Samarra
June 5, 2002–January 5, 2003
On display is a selection of little-known material that the Department of Islamic Art acquired in 1943 from Ernst Emile Herzfeld, one of the most prominent archaeologists and scholars of Islamic art of the first half of the 20th century. Herzfeld's notebooks, sketchbooks, travel journals, artistically accomplished watercolors and ink drawings, site maps, architectural plans, photo albums, and photographs are included, focusing on material related to Samarra, the temporary capital of the cAbbasid caliphs (A.D. 836–892) situated about 125 miles north of Baghdad. The exhibition highlights an especially significant Islamic archaeological site while offering intriguing insights into a pioneer in the studies of Islamic art.
The exhibition is made possible by The Hagop Kevorkian Fund.

American Drawings and Watercolors in The Metropolitan Museum of Art:
Highlights from the Collection, 1710—1890
September 3–December 1, 2002
Some 100 highlights from the Metropolitan's exceptional collection of American drawings and watercolors will be displayed in The Erving and Joyce Wolf Gallery. The exhibition celebrates the publication of volume 1 of American Drawings and Watercolors in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which includes works from the Museum's own holdings by artists born before 1835.
The accompanying publication is made possible through the support of the William Cullen Bryant Fellows.

Arms and Armor for the Permanent Collection: Acquisitions since 1991
September 4, 2002–June 29, 2003
This exhibition celebrates more than a decade of acquisitions made since the reinstallation of the Arms and Armor Galleries in 1991. Although high-quality works are becoming increasingly rare, a number of important gifts and purchases have significantly enriched the Museum's renowned collection of European, Japanese, and Islamic arms, increasing its depth and breadth as well as its appeal to scholars and the public alike. Major acquisitions, as well as curatorial purchases of more modest value, will be highlighted, and newly explored areas of collecting such as Tibetan arms and armor will be presented for the first time.

Cultivated Landscapes: Reflections of Nature in Chinese Painting
With Selections from the Collection of Marie-Hélène and Guy Weill
September 10, 2002–February 9, 2003
In no other cultural tradition has landscape played a more important role in the arts than in that of China. This exhibition, consisting of more than 75 works drawn largely from the Metropolitan Museum's holdings and featuring selections from the renowned collection of Marie-Hélène and Guy Weill, will explore the manifold uses of natural imagery in Chinese painting as reflections of human beliefs and emotions. The exhibition will begin in the 10th century, when landscape painting became an independent genre in China and images of life in reclusion took on a new immediacy as members of society dreamed of finding sanctuary from a disintegrating social order following the collapse of the Tang dynasty. It will then move through the next millennium of Chinese painting, revealing how select flowers and plants may symbolize moral virtues; landscapes celebrating the natural order might laud the well-governed state; wilderness hermitages can suggest political isolation or protest; and gardens may be emblems of an ideal world. One gallery in the exhibition will be devoted to paintings given or promised to the Metropolitan Museum by New York collectors Marie- Hélène and Guy Weill and will present major works by masters of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Complementing the display of paintings will be a choice group of objects that celebrate landscape and garden imagery in other media.
The exhibition catalogue is made possible by The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation.

Portraits
September 10, 2002–January 12, 2003
Designed to complement the Museum's landmark exhibition Richard Avedon Portraits, this selection of 40 masterworks will survey the first hundred years of photographic portraiture, from early American and French daguerreotypes through the work of Diane Arbus. The installation will highlight classic images of artists and writers, actors and composers by Nadar, Edward Steichen, and Berenice Abbott, among others. Drawn from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum and the Gilman Paper Company.

Richard Avedon Portraits
September 26, 2002–January 5, 2003
Although Richard Avedon first earned his reputation as a fashion photographer, his greatest achievement has been his stunning reinvention of the genre of photographic portraiture. Featuring approximately 180 works, this exhibition will span the artist's entire career, from his earliest portraits in the late 1940s through his most recent work. At the core of the installation will be a powerful group of portraits of many of the key artistic, intellectual, and political figures from the late 1950s through the early 1970s, including several large murals, perhaps the grandest photographic portraits ever staged. Also featured will be boldly scaled photographs from the ambitious series, In the American West, and a poignant sequence of portraits of the artist's father taken shortly before his death. Avedon's portraits of artists and intellectuals of the last 20 years, including Chet Baker, Roy Lichtenstein, and Harold Bloom, complete this artist's collection of individuals who have shaped our world.
Accompanied by a catalogue.

Significant Objects from the Modern Design Collection
Fall 2002–April 2004
On display will be a rotating selection of approximately 30 works in all media spanning from the late 19th to the early 21st century. Examples of furniture, metalwork, silver, ceramics, and glass—by designers such as Christopher Dresser, Josef Hoffmann, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Georges Fouquet, Carlo Scarpa, Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, Ettore Sottsass, and Wendell Castle—will be shown for their significance, both in art-historical terms and in the context of the Museum's collection.

Nomadic Art from the Eastern Eurasian Steppes
October 1, 2002–January 5, 2003
This exhibition will present the extraordinary art of the nomads who roamed over the Eastern Eurasian steppes and contributed to the early cultural exchange between China and the West in the first millennium B.C. Drawn largely from the collection of Eugene V. Thaw, with selections from other private collections and the Metropolitan Museum's holdings, the more than 200 works in bronze, gold, and silver will include horse tack and harness fittings, chariot fittings, belt ornaments, garment plaques, weapons, and vessels that are characterized by bold designs and skilled craftsmanship.
The exhibition catalogue is made possible by The Adelaide Milton de Groot Fund, in memory of the de Groot and Hawley families.

The Written Image: Japanese Calligraphy and Painting from the Sylvan Barnet and William Burto Collection
October 1, 2002–March 2, 2003
This exhibition will display 58 works of Japanese calligraphy and painting, spanning a period of more than 1,000 years, drawn from the exceptional collection of Sylvan Barnet and William Burto. The collection—which traces the evolution of Japanese calligraphy from the Nara period (710—784) through the 19th century—includes examples of both the Chinese script (kanji) and the Japanese script (kana). Also included are Buddhist and Shinto mandalas and a portrait of a Zen monk. The presentation of the Barnet and Burto Collection will be supplemented by a selection of Japanese paintings and calligraphy from the Metropolitan's holdings.
The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue are made possible in part by the Toshiba International Foundation.
Additional support has been provided by the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of New York, Inc.

The Prints of Vija Celmins
October 15–December 29, 2002
Although she is best known for her intensely realistic paintings and drawings, Vija Celmins, an American artist born in Latvia, has been engaged with the print medium since the early 1960s. As a printmaker, Celmins relies on traditional intaglio, lithographic, and relief processes to produce quiet scenes of ocean surfaces, desert floors, and star-filled night skies that are highly modern in their eschewing of conventional composition. Instead of relaying a narrative, Celmins renders the details of our natural environment through a painstaking exploration of process and mark. This exhibition, comprising 45 prints (including three artist's books) and five drawings, will be the first museum retrospective of Celmins's printed work. A publication featuring an interview with the artist and two of her closest collaborators, master printers Leslie Miller and Doris Simmelink, will accompany the exhibition.

Théodore Chassériau (1819—1856): The Unknown Romantic
October 22, 2002–January 5, 2003
Approximately 50 paintings and 80 works on paper will constitute the first retrospective of the work of Théodore Chassériau since 1933 and the first to be held outside France. Chassériau, a precocious disciple of Ingres, quickly succumbed to Romanticism and developed a personal style that fused Ingres's linear precision with the lush color and exoticism of Delacroix. Chassériau's trip to Algeria in 1846 inspired a wealth of Orientalist images, which highlight a career abruptly terminated by the artist's death at the age of 37. The diversity of his historical, religious, and Orientalist subjects as well as his portraits will reveal how state patronage and the emerging art market in France formed his oeuvre.
The exhibition is supported by The Isaacson-Draper Foundation.
The exhibition was organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, the Louvre Museum, Paris, and the Museums of Strasbourg.
The exhibition catalogue is made possible by The Drue E. Heinz Fund and the
Doris Duke Fund for Publications.

Blithe Spirit: The Windsor Set
November 1, 2002–February 9, 2003
A remarkable collection of French couture including Vionnets, Lanvins, Schiapparellis, and Chanels donated to the Museum in 1946 captures the rapturous elegance of café society in the years immediately preceding the destructive rupture of World War II. Dating from 1935 to 1940, this group of gowns and formal attire was assembled and lent to an exhibition in 1940 chaired by the Duchess of Windsor to benefit French War Charities. Commodes from Jansen commissioned for the occasion of the marriage of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, a Eugene Berman wardrobe, an Emilio Terry console, and murals from the luxury liner Normandy will represent the strongly historicist aspect of the decorative arts of the time. The exhibition will also include photographs by Horst, Hoyningen-Huene, and Man Ray, and drawings by Berard, Beaton, Dalí, and Cocteau. A centerpiece of the exhibition is the Mainbocher gown worn by Wallis Simpson upon her marriage to the Duke of Windsor.

The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256—1353
November 5, 2002–February 16, 2003
This exhibition will focus on the period of Ilkhanid rule (a semi-independent branch of the Mongols) in the Iranian region (ca. 1256—1353), which caused a transformation of the locally established artistic language through contact with Far Eastern art of the Yüan period. This era witnessed a number of remarkable achievements within the sphere of art and culture; but the most significant impact was on the arts of the book, which became a means to further the Mongol dynasty's political agenda and legitimize the ruling elite. The exhibition will include some 200 objects equally divided among illustrated manuscripts, the decorative arts, and architectural decoration.
The exhibition is made possible in part by The Hagop Kevorkian Fund.
Additional support has been provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The exhibition has been organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
The exhibition catalogue is made possible by The Hagop Kevorkian Fund and The Adelaide Milton de Groot Fund, in memory of the de Groot and Hawley families.

Korean Ceramics from the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge University
November 5, 2002–April 6, 2003
This exhibition of nearly 80 ceramics from the distinguished collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum will focus on the celadon ware of the Koryŏ period (918—1392).
The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue are made possible by The Kun-Hee Lee Fund for Korean Art.

French Nineteenth-Century Drawings in the Robert Lehman Collection
November 13, 2002–January 19, 2003
Organized to coincide with the publication of the Lehman Collection catalogue of European 19th- and 20th-century drawings, this exhibition will touch on many of the great trends in French drawing of the time: the heroic neoclassicism of David, refined classicism of Ingres, and Romanticism of Delacroix; the richly textured landscapes of the Barbizon School; the figure studies of Degas and Renoir; Seurat's luminous sheets of shaded crayon, and the jewel-like watercolors of Paul Signac and Henri-Edmond Cross. The selection captures another facet of the taste of a great American collector famous for the range and depth of his interests across the entire history of European art.
The exhibition is made possible by Robert Lehman Foundation, Inc.
Accompanied by a catalogue.

The Janice H. Levin Collection of Impressionist Paintings
November 19, 2002–February 9, 2003
This intimate exhibition will offer visitors the opportunity to see some 35 Impressionist works that graced the Fifth Avenue apartment of Janice H. Levin. Highlights include Claude Monet's views of his garden at Argenteuil and the cliffs at Pourville; pastels and sculpture by Edgar Degas; lush landscapes by Pierre Bonnard, Eugène Boudin, Berthe Morisot, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; and interiors by Berthe Morisot and Édouard Vuillard. This exhibition reveals the distinctly personal character of a collection lovingly acquired for a private home. Levin (1913—2001) was an Honorary Trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1993 until her death.
The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue are made possible by The Philip and Janice Levin Foundation.

Genesis: Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture
November 19, 2002–April 13, 2003
How did the world begin? What is our ancestry? What is the source of agriculture and of kingship, and other societal institutions? African cultures seek to provide answers to these questions through elaborate interwoven traditions of oral history, poetry, and art. Genesis: Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture explores how artists in 17 distinct African cultures have interpreted these ideas and sought to answer these questions. Within that framework, the exhibition will explore in depth the nuanced complexity of one noteworthy classical sculptural form, the Chi Wara antelope headdress of the Bamana people. The exhibition will include 40 exceptional Chi Wara headdresses, as well as 35 noted masterpieces from across sub-Saharan Africa inspired by distinctive myths of origin ranging from the Dogon of Mali, the Senufo of Cote d'Ivoire, and the Yoruba of Nigeria to the Luba and Kuba of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Chokwe of Angola, and the Ntwane of South Africa. Genesis: Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture seeks to shed light on the act of human creation as a broad and recurrent theme of African art. While the works of African art included will relate to a panoply of social perspectives and traditions, they all reflect a desire to give tangible form to the abstract forces that have shaped the course of human experience. The works of art chosen constitute points of reference that allow individuals to conceive of their place within an expansive history. The artists who executed them have responded to their society's most exalted challenge and in doing so provide insight into their distinctive worldview.
Accompanied by a catalogue.

Hanukkah Menorah
Late November 2002–early January 2003
One of the oldest symbols of the Jewish faith, this elaborately decorated 18th-century menorah on loan from a renowned private collection will mark the holiday season.

Annual Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche
Late November 2002–early January 2003
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—will adorn 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.

Chinese Export Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
January 14–July 13, 2003
On display will be 65 works from the Museum's important collection of Chinese export art, primarily highlighting porcelain made in China for American and European markets. The selection of objects, dating from the early 16th century to the last quarter of the 19th century, will include bowls and vases, services and tureens, reverse glass paintings, and even an ivory pagoda.

Identity and Place: African-American Artists 1929–1945
January 14–May 2003
This exhibition will focus on the years after many African-Americans migrated to the north and a period that gave rise to a cultural legacy that included the Harlem Renaissance. These 75 works by 35 artists—drawn exclusively from the collection of the Metropolitan and exhibited together for the first time—will include paintings by Joseph Delaney, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, and Horace Pippin; watercolors by Romare Bearden, Samuel Joseph Brown, Palmer Hayden, William Henry Johnson, and Bill Traylor; and a large variety of original prints created as a result of the WPA (Works Progress Administration).

Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman
January 22–March 30, 2003
This international loan exhibition will bring together some 130 drawings of extraordinary beauty by Leonardo da Vinci (1452—1519), one of the great masters of all time. Even in an era of boundless scientific discovery and technological invention, and of sublime artistic and humanistic achievement, Leonardo stands as a supreme icon in western consciousness—the very embodiment of the universal Renaissance genius. The exhibition will survey Leonardo's staggering contribution as an artist, scientist, theorist, and teacher. Gathered from private and public collections in Europe and North America, the selection of drawings will include rarely exhibited works and will illustrate a great variety of drawing types. The exhibition will also integrate a small group of drawings by artists critical to Leonardo's formation in Florence and to his multifaceted activity in Milan, in an attempt to offer a unified view of the great master's legacy.
The exhibition is made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
The exhibition catalogue is made possible by The Drue E. Heinz Fund.

Thomas Struth
February 4–May 18, 2003
This major retrospective will feature more than 70 stunning photographs by one of today's leading contemporary artists, whose body of work is of truly global reach and ambition. Ranging from early black-and-white cityscapes in the United States and Europe to recent, large-scale views of primeval jungles and forests in Asia and South America, Struth's photographs are distinctive portraits of place that show the actual condition of our world's cultures and traditions on the cusp of a new millennium. The exhibition will highlight his celebrated "Museum" series—monumental pictures of people visiting museums, churches, and other cultural destinations around the world that reconcile the timeless and the ephemeral, the real and the spiritual ideal. Also included will be his mesmerizing individual and family portraits, landscapes, and rapturous flower studies. Struth's landmark 1978 series, "The Streets of New York," will also be exhibited in its entirety for the first time at the Metropolitan only.
The exhibition was organized by the Dallas Museum of Art.
Accompanied by a catalogue.

Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
February 18–May 25, 2003
On public display will be rarely seen masterpieces from the magnificent private collection of Italian manuscripts formed by Robert Lehman (1891—1969), one of the most distinguished manuscript collectors of the post–World War I era. The collection originally numbered 145 manuscripts, leaves, and cuttings dating from the 13th to the 16th century, of which 96 will be on view in the exhibition—including 14 that were given to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The accompanying catalogue will illustrate the entire collection.

Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting
March 4–June 8, 2003
This exhibition will examine the impact of Spanish painting on French artists, presenting some 150 paintings by masters of Spain's Golden Age—Velázquez, Murillo, Ribera, El Greco, and Zurbarán—and the 19th-century French artists they influenced, among them Delacroix, Courbet, Millet, Degas, and, most notably, Manet. An exhibition on this subject has never before been attempted at this scale and depth, and it promises to be revelatory. Napoleon's Spanish campaigns (1808–14) marked a turning point in the French perception of Spanish painting, which, up to that time, had been virtually ignored and poorly represented in the French royal collections. Yet, only two decades later, in 1838, King Louis Philippe inaugurated the Galerie Espagnole at the Louvre, placing on view his extraordinary collection of hundreds of Spanish paintings. Although this collection was sold in 1853, these paintings left an indelible impression in France and by the 1860s, the French taste for Spanish painting was perceptible at each Paris Salon.
In New York, the exhibition will also include works by American artists such as Sargent, Chase, Eakins, Whistler, and Cassatt, who studied in France but learned to paint like Spaniards.
The exhibition was organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Musée d'Orsay.
Accompanied by a catalogue.

Courtly Radiance: Metalwork from Islamic India
Through May 5, 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 includes approximately 25 examples of gold, 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 and 17th centuries and representing both Mughal and Deccan metalwork traditions, reveal a rich variety of technical and decorative effects.
The exhibition is made possible by The Hagop Kevorkian Fund.

Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi:
Father and Daughter Painters in Baroque Italy
Through May 12, 2002
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 50 works by Orazio and 35 by Artemisia, this is 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 Paris, where he worked for Marie de'Medici, and London, where he was court painter to Charles I. Artemisia has received much popular attention and is the subject of two biographical novels and a recent movie. However, her reputation as an artist has often been overshadowed 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 and ambition, 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 for a woman).
The exhibition is made possible in part by the Gail and Parker Gilbert Fund.
Additional support has been provided by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The exhibition has been organized by the Soprintendenza per i Beni Artistici, Rome, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Saint Louis Art Museum.
An indemnity has been granted by the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
The exhibition catalogue is made possible by the Doris Duke Fund for Publications.

Family Life
Through May 12, 2002
Installed in the south mezzanine gallery are images of family life—high and low, bourgeois and artistic—as presented in paintings, drawings, watercolors, prints, photographs, and sculpture dating from ca. 2000 B.C. to the 20th century. All works have been selected from the Metropolitan Museum's encyclopedic collection.

Surrealism: Desire Unbound
Through May 12, 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 more than 20 years, this exhibition presents the richness and diversity of this obsessive but very human and constant theme through more than 300 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, and films. The selection ranges in date from the decade anticipating the first manifestations of Surrealism in 1924 to more recent years. Artists represented include Giorgio de Chirico, Joseph Cornell, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Arshile Gorky, René Magritte, Man Ray, André Masson, Joan Miró, and Pablo Picasso. Many of the icons of the Surrealist dream are displayed as well as important works by artists not yet widely known. The achievement of women associated with the Surrealists, sometimes overlooked in previous surveys, is represented by painters such as Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, and Dorothea Tanning.
The exhibition is made possible in part by Jane and Robert Carroll.
The exhibition has been organized by Tate Modern, London.
An indemnity has been granted by the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
Accompanied by a catalogue.

Treasures from a Lost Civilization: Ancient Chinese Art from Sichuan
Through June 16, 2002
This exhibition presents the fascinating art and material culture of ancient Sichuan, in remote southwest China, uncovered by archaeology of the last 15 years. The 128 works of art on exhibit include monumental bronze images of deities, lively human figures, fantastic bronze vessels, exquisite jades, and spirited ceramic sculptures dating from the late phase of the Sanxingdui culture (13th—11th century B.C.) to the Han dynasty (3rd century B.C. —3rd century A.D.). They are among the most unusual and spectacular works of art from the ancient world, and most of them are being shown for the first time in the United States. This exhibition provides 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.
Accompanied by a catalogue.

Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence
Through June 19, 2002
The first major loan exhibition of tapestries in the United States in 25 years, and the first extensive survey of tapestry production between 1460 and 1560, this exhibition highlights the great cycles of the late 15th through the early 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 features some 41 of the greatest tapestries of the period along with about 16 preparatory drawings and designs drawn from 33 collections in 12 countries. The exhibition explores the stylistic and technical development of tapestry production in the Low Countries, France, and Italy and highlights the contributions that the medium made to the art, liturgy, and propaganda of the day.
The exhibition is made possible in part by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation.
Additional support for the exhibition and its accompanying publication has been provided by the Garen Family Foundation.
An indemnity has been granted by the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
The exhibition catalogue is made possible by the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation Inc. and the Doris Duke Fund for Publications.
Additional support for the exhibition catalogue was provided by Furthermore, a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund.

Splendid Isolation: Art of Easter Island
Through August 4, 2002
Few Pacific islands hold as prominent a place in the Western imagination as Easter Island, a Polynesian island that is now a part of modern-day Chile. One of the most remote inhabited places 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 the art of Easter Island, Splendid Isolation: Art of Easter Island presents nearly 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 explores Easter Island's distinctive art forms as expressions of supernatural and secular power. Dating from the 12th to the late 19th century, the works in the exhibition range from robust stone images to refined wooden sculpture, rare barkcloth effigies, and examples of rongorongo, the island's unique and undeciphered script.
The exhibition is made possible by Compañia Sud Americana de Vapores and Viña Santa Rita.
The exhibition catalogue is made possible, in part, by the Mary C. and James W. Fosburgh Publications Fund.

Bill Viola: The Quintet of Remembrance
Through September 1, 2002
This exhibition of a single work features the first representation of video art to enter the collection of the Department of Modern Art at the Metropolitan as well as the first major video installation to be acquired by the Museum. The Quintet of Remembrance, 2000, is a color video installation by preeminent video artist Bill Viola (American, b. 1951) inspired by his study of late medieval and early Renaissance paintings and their iconography. Three women and two men independently express the emotions of joy, rapture, anger, fear, and sorrow, in extended slow and soundless motion. Running continuously on a 16-minute loop, this powerful work provocatively connects the art of two eras: early Renaissance Europe and 21st-century America.

The Forgotten Friezes from the Castle of Vélez Blanco
Through January 12, 2003
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 19). 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.

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 more than 40 outstanding works by modern masters from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection. Included are paintings by Balthus, Bonnard, Braque, Brauner, Chagall, de Chirico, Derain, Dubuffet, Ernst, Gris, Léger, Matisse, Miró, Modigliani, Mondrian, Picasso, Rouault, Tanguy, and Vlaminck, as well as one painting and three bronzes by Giacometti. These prime works by painters of the School of Paris—most of which were not 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.

Glimpses of the Silk Road: Central Asia in the First Millennium A.D.
Opening August 2002
As seen in the 40 diverse objects that will be on view in this new installation of works drawn primarily from the Metropolitan's collection, the art of Central Asia is marked by an astonishing amalgam of different influences, combining Hellenistic imagery and Near Eastern motifs with Chinese and Indian features. Goods and raw materials as well as new ideas, religious beliefs, artistic styles and motifs, and technological innovations were transmitted throughout the region along overland caravan routes that later became known as the "Silk Road." Sculptures from various sites, and rare wall paintings from the Kushan kingdom (ca. 1st century B.C. —early 4th century A.D.) and that of Kucha (ca. 4th—7th century) illustrate the fascinating blend of eastern and western traditions that defines Central Asian art. Buddhist themes, often represented in the sculptures and paintings, reflect the spread of this Indian religion throughout the region and into China. The display also illustrates the transmission of technology and motifs in the applied arts. Perhaps the most outstanding examples of works of art in the Parthian period (247 B.C. —224 A.D.) are two ivory rhytons from Nysa, which combine Iranian and Greek themes and styles. Metalwork, textiles, and stucco produced by the Persians, the Kushans, the Sogdians, the Chinese, and others share numerous themes and decorative elements, interpreting and adapting them into their own creations.

The Deedee Wigmore Gallery Expansion
Opening October 2002
In October the Museum will open a new gallery devoted to the arts of Louis C. Tiffany, one of the most versatile and talented American artists working in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Part of the Deedee Wigmore galleries, the installation highlights the Museum's preeminent collections and will feature Tiffany's windows, lamps, furniture, mosaics, blown Favrile glass vases, pottery, enamelwork, and jewelry. In addition, there will be a rotating display selected from the Museum's collection of more than 400 design drawings from Tiffany's studios.

When the Manchus Ruled China: Painting under the Qing Dynasty (1644—1911)
Through August 18, 2002
The most comprehensive exhibition of Qing dynasty painting ever mounted in the West, this selection of nearly 70 works focuses on painting under the brilliant reigns of the Kangxi (r. 1662—1722) and Qianlong (r. 1736—95) emperors—a period when the Manchus embraced Chinese cultural traditions and the court became a leading patron in the arts. On view are major works by the three principal groups of artists working during the Qing: the traditionalists, who sought to revitalize painting through the creative reinterpretation of past models; the individualists, who practiced a deeply personal form of art that often carried a strong message of political protest; and the courtiers, the officials and professional artists that served at the Manchu court. The works are drawn primarily from the Museum's outstanding collection of 17th- and 18th-century painting, supplemented by select loans from local private collections.
The exhibition is made possible by The Dillon Fund.

Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries for Byzantine Art
Opened November 14, 2000
In fall 2000, 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. 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 recently 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 will be on view through January 12, 2003.

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.
Exhibition organized by the Metropolitan and the American Federation of Arts.

Previously shown at:
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
January 26—April 22, 2001

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

Current venue:
New York State Museum, Albany, NY
March 22—June 16, 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.
Exhibition organized by the Metropolitan and the American Federation of Arts.

Previously shown at:
Orange County Museum of Art,
Newport Beach, CA
May 25—August 19, 2001

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, PA
January 12—April 7, 2002

Current and upcoming venues:
Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC
May 3—July 28, 2002

Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
August 25—November 10, 2002

John Singer Sargent Beyond the Portrait Studio: Paintings, Drawings, and Watercolors from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Based on the Metropolitan's summer 2000 exhibition, a selection of more than 100 works from the Museum's collection that illuminate episodes in the career of the versatile American expatriate painter as he studied and sought inspiration outside the portrait studio.

Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
February 9—May 12, 2002

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.

Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
March 22—June 16, 2002

Indianapolis Museum of Art,
Indianapolis, IN
September 6, 2002—February 23, 2003

Baseball Cards from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A selection of 141 cards (grouped into 16 mats) for display to coincide with the opening of a new ball park for Toledo's team, the Toledo Mud Hens. The selection was made from the Jefferson R. Burdick Collection of the Metropolitan Museum's Department of Drawings and Prints by Toledo's curator, Lawrence W. Nichols, and Constance C. McPhee, MMA's Print Room Supervisor.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
April 5—July 7, 2002

Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes, 1949—50
Based on the Metropolitan's recent exhibition, these photographs by one of the world's finest photographers are among the most ambitious and successful female nudes ever made. Folded, twisted, and stretched, with extra belly, mounded hips, and puddled breasts, the fleshy torsos of Penn's models are charged with powerful physical and sexual energy yet remain somehow chaste.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
June 1—October 6, 2002

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
March 22—July 27, 2003

Picasso and the School of Paris:
Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
A loan exhibition of 72 School of Paris paintings from the holdings of the Department of Modern Art, including works by Balthus, Bonnard, Braque, de Chirico, Léger, Matisse, Miró, Modigliani, Picasso, and Soutine. In Kyoto, the exhibition is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Yomiuri Shimbun and Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art. In Tokyo, the exhibition is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Yomiuri Shimbun and The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo.

Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
September 14—November 24, 2002

The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo
December 7, 2002—March 9, 2003

Side by Side: American Sculpture from the Collections of the National Academy of Design and The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition of sculptures in bronze, marble, and plaster compares related casts and carvings from the rich American art holdings of the National Academy of Design and the Metropolitan Museum. Completed between 1860 and 1920, the work of such artists as Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Bessie Potter Vonnoh, and Paul Manship is represented. The thematically diverse statuettes, bas-reliefs, and busts will be displayed in pairs, revealing intriguing variations in the artistic process including composition, medium, inscriptions, casting, and patination.

National Academy of Design, New York, NY
February 7—April 20, 2003