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Vertigo of Color:
Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism
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JUST OPENED
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Through January 21, 2024
The Met Fifth Avenue
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Over an intense nine weeks in the summer of 1905 in the modest
fishing village of Collioure on the French Mediterranean, Henri Matisse and
Andre Derain embarked on a partnership that led to a wholly new, radical
artistic language later known as Fauvism. Their daring, energetic
experiments with color, form, structure, and perspective changed the course
of French painting; it marked an introduction to early modernism and
introduced Matisse's first important body of work in his long career. This
exhibition, which is co-organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, emphasizes as never before the legacy of that
summer and examines the paintings, drawings, and watercolors of Matisse and
Derain through sixty-five works on loan from national and international
museums, including Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou; National
Galleries of Scotland; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York; as
well as private collections.
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The Great Hall
Commission: Jacolby Satterwhite, A Metta Prayer
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JUST OPENED
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Through January 7, 2024
The Met Fifth Avenue
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For the second in a series of commissions for The Met's Great
Hall, interdisciplinary artist Jacolby Satterwhite has transformed the
historic space with a site-specific multimedia installation and a series of
live performances that will take place on select weekends from October through
early December. Titled A
Metta Prayer, the project fuses choreography, video, animation,
lighting, and music to reimagine a kaleidoscopic, computer-generated world
within the Museum's Great Hall. Satterwhite's six-channel video
incorporates renderings of more than seventy objects from the Museum's
permanent collection, three-dimensional animations, and live action
sequences.
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Art for the
Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s
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Through December 10, 2023
The Met Fifth Avenue
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The 1930s was a decade of political and social upheaval in the
United States, and the art and visual culture of the time reflected the
unsettled environment. Americans searched for their cultural identity
during the Great Depression, a period marked by divisive politics, threats
to democracy, and intensified social activism, including a powerful labor
movement. Featuring more than 100 works from The Met collection and several
lenders, this exhibition explores how artists expressed political messages
and ideologies through a range of media, from paintings, sculptures,
prints, and photographs to film, dance, decorative arts, fashion, and
ephemera.
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Exhibitions Highlights
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Manet/Degas
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Through January 7, 2024
The Met Fifth Avenue
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Enter the Metaverse: Introducing Replica
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For more information on the exhibitions, including
sponsorship credits, visit Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins
of Fauvism, The Great Hall Commission: Jacolby Satterwhite, A
Metta Prayer, Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics
in the 1930s, Manet/Degas, Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India,
200 BCE–400 CE, Baseball Cards from the Collection of Jefferson R.
Burdick, Proof: Maxime Du
Camp's Photographs of the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa,
P.S. Art 2023: Celebrating the Creative Spirit of
New York City Kids, and The Roof Garden Commission: Lauren Halsey.
Images: André Derain. Woman
with a Shawl, Madame Matisse in a Kimono, 1905. Oil on
canvas. Private collection, courtesy of Nevill Keating Pictures, London.
© 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. | Jacolby
Satterwhite. Photo by Xavier Scott Marshall / Courtesy of the artist and
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York | Elizabeth Olds (American,
1896–1991). Miner Joe, 1942. Screenprint. 16 1/2 x 12 1/4 in. (41.9 x
31.1 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum Accession, transferred
from the Lending Library Collection (64.500.1) © The Estate of Elizabeth
Olds | Left: Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883). Plum Brandy, ca. 1877.
Oil on canvas, 29 x 19 ¾ in. (73.6 x 50.2 cm). National Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C., Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (1971.85.1).
Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; right: Edgar Degas
(French, 1834–1917). In
a Café (The Absinthe Drinker), 1875–76. Oil on canvas, 36 1/4
× 26 15/16 in. (92 × 68.5 cm). Musée d'Orsay, Paris. © Musée d'Orsay
Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt | Amaravati mahācaitya, Guntur
district, Andhra Pradesh. Sada, second half of 1st century ce. Limestone,
57 x 30 1/2 x 4 in. (145 x 77.5 x 10 cm). Lent by British Museum, London.
| Lou Gehrig, New York Yankees, from the Play Ball series (R333), issued
by DeLong Gum Company, 1933. Offset lithograph, 2 15/16 x 1 15/16 in.
(7.5 x 5 cm). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Jefferson R.
Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick (Burdick 326, R333.6). |
Maxime Du Camp (French, 1822–1894), Pyramid of Chephren (Khafre), viewed
from the southeast (detail), December 10, 1849. Salted paper print from
paper negative. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gilman
Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005 (2005.100.376.19);
Du Camp, Pyramid of
Chephren (Khafre), Middle Egypt (detail), 1852. Salted paper
print (Blanquart-Évrard process) from paper negative. The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, Robert O. Dougan Collection, Gift of Warner Communications
Inc., 1981 (1981.1229.6.1) | Django Lewis (Grade 12), Granny's Backyard
(detail), 2023. Oil on canvas. Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music
& Art and Performing Arts, Manhattan. Art teacher: David Driggers |
Lauren Halsey, the eastside of south central los angeles hieroglyph
prototype architecture (I) (detail), 2023, The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor
Roof Garden, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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