The Met Museum of Art announces its upcoming exhibitions, September 28 - July 11, 2011.
The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty
September 28, 2010-January 2, 2011
This exhibition will cover the period from 1215, the year of Khubilai's birth, to 1368, the year of the fall of the Yuan dynasty in China founded by Khubilai Khan, and will feature every art form, including paintings, sculpture, gold and silver, textiles, ceramics, lacquer, and other decorative arts, religious and secular. The exhibition will highlight new art forms and styles generated in China as a result of the unification of China under the Yuan dynasty and the massive influx of craftsmen from all over the vast Mongol empire - with reverberations in Italian art of the 14th century.
The exhibition is made possible by Bank of America. The exhibition is also made possible by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Dillon Fund, The Henry Luce Foundation, Wilson and Eliot Nolen, the Oceanic Heritage Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Florence and Herbert Irving, and Jane Carroll. It is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
Accompanied by a catalogue.
Press preview: Monday, September 20, 10:00 a.m.-noon
The Roman Mosaic from Lod, Israel
September 28, 2010-April 3, 2011
First discovered in 1996 during construction on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway in Lod (formerly Lydda), Israel, this large and impressive mosaic floor has only recently been uncovered and was displayed briefly in situ to the public in Israel during the summer of 2009. Believed to belong to a large house owned by a wealthy Roman in about A.D. 300, the mosaic comprises a large square panel with a central medallion depicting various exotic animals and two rectangular end panels, one of which represents a marine scene of two merchant ships amid a sea of marine creatures. The floor, which adorned a richly appointed audience room, is extremely well preserved and highly colorful. It has now been removed from the ground and will be exhibited for the first time outside Israel at the Metropolitan Museum. The Lod Mosaic is on loan from the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Shelby White and Leon Levy Lod Mosaic Center.
The exhibition is made possible by Diane Carol Brandt in memory of Ruth and Benjamin Brandt.
Additional support is provided by Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman and The David Berg Foundation.
Press preview: Monday, September 27, 10:00 a.m.-noon
Mir?: The Dutch Interiors
October 5, 2010-January 17, 2011
A series of three early 20th-century avant-garde paintings by Barcelona-born Joan Mir? (1893-1983) are juxtaposed with the two paintings from the Dutch Golden Age that inspired them, providing rare insight into the artist's creative process. Preparatory studies and a fourth related canvas complete the exhibition.
Press preview: Monday, October 4, 10:00 a.m.-noon
Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures: Jan Gossart's Renaissance
October 6, 2010-January 17, 2011
The first major exhibition in 45 years devoted to the Burgundian Netherlandish artist Jan Gossart (ca. 1478-1532), it will bring together Gossart's paintings, drawings, and prints, and place them in the context of the art and artists that influenced his transformation from Late Gothic Mannerism to the new Renaissance mode. Gossart was among the first northern artists to travel to Rome to make copies after antique sculpture and introduce historical and mythological subjects with erotic nude figures into the mainstream of northern painting. Most often credited with successfully assimilating Italian Renaissance style into northern European art of the early 16th century, he is the pivotal Old Master who changed the course of Flemish art from the Medieval craft tradition of its founder, Jan van Eyck, and charted new territory that eventually led to the great age of Rubens.
The exhibition is made possible by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation and the Gail and Parker Gilbert Fund. Additional support is provided by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Hester Diamond, David Kowitz, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and Joyce P. and Diego R. Visceglia. The exhibition was organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in association with The National Gallery, London. It is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
Accompanied by a catalogue.
Press preview: Monday, October 4, 10:00 a.m.-noon
