Drawings/Works on Paper Calendar and Events in New York City - City Limits Magazine

Tue May
21

9:30 a.m. till 5:30 p.m.

Drawings and Prints

Presented by Metropolitan Museum of Art

This collection includes graphic art of the Renaissance and after, encompassing prints in all techniques, sketches to highly finished drawings, illustrated books and other works on paper. The Museum mounts special exhibitions that draw on selections from the Permanent Collection.
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Tue May
21

9:30 a.m. till 5:30 p.m.

New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia

Presented by Metropolitan Museum of Art

On November 1, 2011, the Museum opened a suite of fifteen dramatic 'New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia.' The greatly enlarged, freshly conceived, and completely renovated galleries house the Metropolitan's renowned collection of Islamic art--one of the finest and most comprehensive collections of this material in the world. Design features within the new space highlight both the diversity and the interconnectedness of the numerous cultures represented here; multiple entryways allow visitors to approach the new galleries--and the art displayed within--from different perspectives. In sequence, the fifteen new galleries trace the course of Islamic civilization over a span of thirteen centuries, from the Middle East to North Africa, Europe, and Central and South Asia.
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Tue May
21

9:30 a.m. till 5:30 p.m.

The Robert Lehman Collection

Presented by Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Robert Lehman Collection - one of the most extraordinary private art collections ever assembled in the United States - was presented to the Metropolitan Museum by the Robert Lehman Foundation in 1969, following Mr. Lehman's death. The collection of nearly three thousand works of art, which had been assembled by Mr. Lehman, a longtime Museum trustee, and by his father, Philip, is housed today in The Robert Lehman Wing. The galleries, which opened to the public in 1975, were designed to evoke the ambience of Lehman's own house on West 54th Street in New York City, with wall fabrics, draperies, furniture, and rugs that set the objects in an intimate, personal context.
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Tue May
21

9:30 a.m. till 5:30 p.m.

Sleeping Eros

Presented by Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's statue of 'Eros Sleeping'--one of the finest of the surviving bronze statues from classical antiquity--will be the focus of this special exhibition. 'Eros Sleeping' will be shown with 44 related works of art in various media, ranging in date from the fifth century B.C. to the 17th century A.D., drawn primarily from the Museum's permanent collection. Two works from private collections will also be shown. Through these examples, the exhibition will examine the cult and image of Eros before and after the 'Sleeping Eros' statue type, show the breadth of its influence, and trace the wide dispersal of the type in Roman times and its subsequent rediscovery during the Renaissance. The exhibition will also consider the original function and context of the sculpture, how the statue was made, and the issue of originals and copies in Greek and Roman sculpture.
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Tue May
21

10:30 a.m. till 5 p.m.

Subliming Vessel: The Drawings of Matthew Barney

Presented by Morgan Library and Museum, The

From the outset of his career in the late 1980s, drawing has played an important role in Barney's aesthetic pursuits, in storyboards laying out the action of his performances as well as in singular drawings that become meditations on a work in process. The exhibition will include some fifty drawings, from early process-oriented works (in the vein of Beuys) to drawings related to the epic film series 'Cremaster Cycle' (1994-2002), in which more representation began to appear, and to the recent figurative drawings inspired by Egyptian mythology and based on Norman Mailer's 'Ancient Evenings.' Drawings have been included in a number of Barney's gallery and museum exhibitions; however, to date, no exhibition exclusively and comprehensively devoted to his graphic work has taken place.
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Tue May
21

10:30 a.m. till 5 p.m.

Illuminating Faith: The Eucharist in Medieval Life and Art

Presented by Morgan Library and Museum, The

The Eucharist was the center of Catholic worship in the late Middle Ages. The bread and wine of Communion were understood to be the transubstantiated body and blood of Christ. Every Mass not only commemorated Christ's institution of the Eucharist at the Last Supper but also recreated it. Drawing from the Morgan's rich holdings of liturgical and quasi-liturgical illuminated manuscripts, this exhibition will illustrate the centrality of the Eucharist to medieval cultural life--both religious and secular.
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Wed May
22

9:30 a.m. till 5:30 p.m.

Drawings and Prints

Presented by Metropolitan Museum of Art

This collection includes graphic art of the Renaissance and after, encompassing prints in all techniques, sketches to highly finished drawings, illustrated books and other works on paper. The Museum mounts special exhibitions that draw on selections from the Permanent Collection.
View details

Categories: Arts , Museums

Wed May
22

9:30 a.m. till 5:30 p.m.

New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia

Presented by Metropolitan Museum of Art

On November 1, 2011, the Museum opened a suite of fifteen dramatic 'New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia.' The greatly enlarged, freshly conceived, and completely renovated galleries house the Metropolitan's renowned collection of Islamic art--one of the finest and most comprehensive collections of this material in the world. Design features within the new space highlight both the diversity and the interconnectedness of the numerous cultures represented here; multiple entryways allow visitors to approach the new galleries--and the art displayed within--from different perspectives. In sequence, the fifteen new galleries trace the course of Islamic civilization over a span of thirteen centuries, from the Middle East to North Africa, Europe, and Central and South Asia.
View details

Categories: Arts , Museums , Programs

Wed May
22

9:30 a.m. till 5:30 p.m.

The Robert Lehman Collection

Presented by Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Robert Lehman Collection - one of the most extraordinary private art collections ever assembled in the United States - was presented to the Metropolitan Museum by the Robert Lehman Foundation in 1969, following Mr. Lehman's death. The collection of nearly three thousand works of art, which had been assembled by Mr. Lehman, a longtime Museum trustee, and by his father, Philip, is housed today in The Robert Lehman Wing. The galleries, which opened to the public in 1975, were designed to evoke the ambience of Lehman's own house on West 54th Street in New York City, with wall fabrics, draperies, furniture, and rugs that set the objects in an intimate, personal context.
View details

Categories: Arts , Museums , Programs

Wed May
22

9:30 a.m. till 5:30 p.m.

Sleeping Eros

Presented by Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's statue of 'Eros Sleeping'--one of the finest of the surviving bronze statues from classical antiquity--will be the focus of this special exhibition. 'Eros Sleeping' will be shown with 44 related works of art in various media, ranging in date from the fifth century B.C. to the 17th century A.D., drawn primarily from the Museum's permanent collection. Two works from private collections will also be shown. Through these examples, the exhibition will examine the cult and image of Eros before and after the 'Sleeping Eros' statue type, show the breadth of its influence, and trace the wide dispersal of the type in Roman times and its subsequent rediscovery during the Renaissance. The exhibition will also consider the original function and context of the sculpture, how the statue was made, and the issue of originals and copies in Greek and Roman sculpture.
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Categories: Arts , Museums

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