Met Museum Announces Upcoming Exhibitions

The Met Museum announces the following exhibitions:

The 9/11 Peace Story Quilt
August 30, 2011-January 22, 2012

The 9/11 Peace Story Quilt was designed by Faith Ringgold and created in collaboration with New York City students ages 8 to 19. The quilt poignantly conveys the importance of communication across cultures and religions to achieve the goal of peace. Comprised of three panels, each with 12 squares on the theme of peace, the quilt will be displayed in the Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education alongside several of the students' original works of art that inspired the quilt's content.
The exhibition was organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in collaboration with the InterRelations Collaborative, Inc.

The Art of Dissent in 17th-Century China: Masterpieces of Ming Loyalist Art from the
Chih Lo Lou Collection
September 7, 2011-January 2, 2012

The collapse of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and subsequent conquest of China by semi-nomadic Manchu tribesmen was one of the most traumatic events in Chinese history. This wrenching era also spurred an enormous outpouring of creative energy, as many former Ming subjects turned to the arts to express their loyalty to the noble but doomed cause of Ming restoration and to assert their defiance and moral virtue. Drawn from one of the finest and most comprehensive private assemblages of the art of the Ming-Qing transition, the exhibition will showcase more than 60 landscape paintings and calligraphies that highlight the intensely personal styles created by the leading artists of that time. Particularly noteworthy are the clusters of exceptional works by Huang Daozhou, Hongren, Bada Shanren (Zhu Da), and Shitao.
The exhibition was organized by the Hong Kong Museum of Art of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department of HKSAR Government and the Chih Lo Lou Art Promotion (Non-profit Making) Ltd.

Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine
September 13, 2011-March 4, 2012

Consisting mostly of works from the Metropolitan Museum's rich collection of drawings and prints, the exhibition will explore humorous imagery from the Italian Renaissance to the present. The show will include sheets by Leonardo da Vinci, Eugène Delacroix, Francisco de Goya, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Enrique Chagoya, alongside works by artists more often associated with the genre such as James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson, Honoré Daumier, and Al Hirschfeld. These works will explore the range of this age-old tradition from the elevated to the rudely humorous.
The exhibition is made possible by The Schiff Foundation.
Accompanied by a catalogue.
Press preview: Monday, September 12, 10:00 a.m.-noon

Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures
September 21, 2011-January 29, 2012

Over the centuries across sub-Saharan Africa, artists have drawn upon various media to memorialize for posterity eminent individuals of their societies. They have achieved this in an
astonishingly diverse repertory of regional sculptural idioms, both naturalistic and abstract, that idealize their subjects through complex aesthetic formulations. The original patrons of such
depictions intended for them to commemorate specific elite members of a given community. For over a century, however, isolation of those creations from the sites, oral traditions, and socio-cultural contexts in which they were conceived has led them to be seen as timeless abstractions of generic archetypes.
This exhibition will consider eight landmark sculptural traditions from West and Central Africa created between the 12th and early 20th centuries in terms of the individuals who inspired their
creation. It will highlight the standardized aesthetic conventions apparent across a selection of 106 masterpieces that define particular regional genres, and will consider the cultural values that inform them. Selected for their artistic importance that has generated a critical mass of scholarship are the Akan of Ghana, ancient Ife civilization and the Kingdom of Benin of Nigeria, Bangwa and related chiefdoms of the Cameroon Grassfields, the Chokwe of Angola and Zambia, and the Luluwa, Hemba, and Kuba of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This examination of major African forms of expression reveals the hidden meaning and inspiration of these great artistic achievements.
The exhibition is made possible in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Ceil & Michael E. Pulitzer Foundation, Inc., and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Accompanied by a catalogue.
Press preview: Monday, September 19, 10:00 a.m.-noon

Perino del Vaga in New York Collections <http://email.metmuseum.org/a/hBOanYgB7u9PqB8dVtuJoEkbO0U/perino1>
September 27, 2011-February 5, 2012

Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi, 1501-1547), one of the outstanding figures in Raphael's workshop, was a leading innovator of the late Renaissance style known as Mannerism. The Metropolitan Museum recently acquired a painting and drawing by this rare but important master which will be featured in this exhibition. The centerpiece will be the painting Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist, a masterpiece from the artist's early years in Rome (ca. 1525). The painting has been newly restored and will be featured with the Museum's other recent acquisition by the artist, a highly finished drawing of Jupiter and Juno reclining on a marriage bed-a design for a tapestry for the artist's Genoese patron, Andrea Doria. In addition to this superlative drawing, the exhibition will include approximately 20 related drawings and prints as well as a painting from a private collection and loans from the Morgan Library & Museum, the Tobey Collection, and other New York private collections.
Press preview: Monday, September 26, 10:00 a.m. - noon

"Wonder of the Age": Master Painters of India, 1100-1900 <http://email.metmuseum.org/a/hBOanYgB7u9PqB8dVtuJoEkbO0U/wonder1>
September 28, 2011-January 8, 2012

An exhibition devoted to the connoisseurship of Indian painting, with works selected according to identifiable hands and named artists, dispelling the notion of anonymity in Indian art. New scholarship has begun to securely link innovations in style with specific artists and their lineages. The identities of individual artists and their oeuvre are defined through signed and attributed works, presented through the greatest works of Indian painting known. The high points of artistic innovation in Indian painting will be demonstrated through the works of the 40 greatest painters in the history of Indian art. Drawn from collections in India, Europe, and the United States, the exhibition will include some 220 works, each artist represented by seminal works.
The exhibition is made possible by MetLife Foundation.
Additional support is provided by Novartis Corporation.
It was organized by the Museum Rietberg Zurich in collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Accompanied by a catalogue.