Start Date: Tue, September 22 2009 End Date: Sun, November 29 2009 Event Time: 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m., 9:30 a.m. - 9 p.m. View Remaining Dates New York, NY
Watteau, Music, and Theater, the first exhibition of Jean-Antoine Watteau's paintings in the United States in 25 years, will be presented at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from September 22 through November 29. The exhibition will demonstrate the place of music and theater in Watteau's art, exploring the tension between an imagery of power, associated with the court of Louis XIV, and a more optimistic and mildly subversive imagery of pleasure that was developed in opera-ballet and theater early in the 18th century. It will demonstrate that the painter's vision was influenced directly by musical works devoted to the island of Cythera, the home of Venus, and to the Venetian carnival, and will shed new light on a number of Watteau's pictures.
Watteau, Music, and Theater will feature more than 60 works of art, consisting of major loans of paintings and drawings by Watteau and his contemporaries from collections in the United States and Europe. The balance of the paintings will be drawn from the Metropolitan Museum's collections, together with most of the works on paper, and all of the musical instruments, gold boxes, and ceramics.
November 2008- November 2010 Baltimore, MD In spring 2008, the University of Maryland and the Walters Art Museum performed a CT scan on the museum's mummy to conduct a "virtual autopsy," discovering more about the person's age, possible illnesses and cause of death. The virtual autopsy also ... READ MORE
January 2009- December 2009 Washington D.C., DC A special installation of nine works by Mark Rothko (1903?1970), long recognized as one of America's foremost artists, will celebrate the centenary of his birth. The works by Rothko are related to two mural commissions"the Seagram murals and the ... READ MORE
January 2009- January 2010 La Jolla, CA On permanent display at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Pleasure Point is an accumulation of rowboats, canoes, jet skis and surfboards suspended above the west side of the museum's La Jolla facility, created by Los-Angeles based sculptor ... READ MORE
January 2009- January 2010 San Diego, CA The exhibition Oceanic Works features around 70 artworks, from hand-carved sculptures representing ancestors and gods to jewellery, weapons and cooking tools. This exhibition celebrates ancient Oceanic traditions from Melanesia, Micronesia and ... READ MORE
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