NEW YORK MUSEUMS EXHIBITIONS
The Art of Betty
Woodman
Until July 30, 2006
The Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Gallery, Lila Acheson Wallace Wing, Modern
Art, 1st floor.
American-born artist Betty Woodman (b. 1930) is celebrated internationally for her contribution to contemporary ceramic sculpture and for the interrelationship between ceramics, sculpture, and painting in her work. This retrospective includes some 70 examples of early utilitarian objects, large vessel groups, wall installations, paintings, and drawings. Accompanied by an outside publication. The exhibition is made possible by the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, Inc.
The "Hundred
Antiques" in Chinese Textiles
Until July 30, 2006
Florence and Herbert Irving Galleries for Chinese Decorative Arts.
The
"hundred antiques," a Chinese decorative pattern that can include antiquities,
scholars' objects, and three-dimensional decorative arts of all types, became
popular during the 17th century. Especially common in the decorative arts of
the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), some of the "hundred antiques" were incorporated
into patterns of rebuses for auspicious wishes. This installation highlights
examples of dress and furnishing textiles from the Museum's collection dating
from the 17th century to the late Qing dynasty, decorated with the "hundred
antiques" pattern.
Kara Walker
at the Met: After the Deluge
Until July 30, 2006
The Gioconda and Joseph King Gallery, Lila Acheson Wallace Wing, Modern Art.
In the wake of
Hurricane Katrina, contemporary American artist Kara Walker (b. 1969)—widely
recognized for her exploration of issues of race, gender, and sexuality
through the 18th-century medium of cut-paper silhouettes—juxtaposes a variety
of objects from the Museum's collection with her own work in order to explore
"the transformative effect and psychological meaning of the
sea" and the role assigned to
black figures represented in art.
The Armored
Horse in Europe, 1480–1620
Until January 14, 2007
Arms and Armor Galleries, 1st floor, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gallery.
The horse was an integral part of medieval and Renaissance culture, not only as a beast of burden but also as a sign of rank and status. For the nobility equitation was an essential skill, both socially and militarily. Horses played a pivotal role in warfare for several centuries and often wore armor as elaborate and expensive as that of their riders. Drawing exclusively from items in the reserve collection, many of them unpublished and rarely seen before, this exhibition examines various types of European horse armor in terms of style, construction, and decoration, from the peak period of its use ca. 1500 through its eventual obsolescence in the early 17th century. Accompanied by a catalogue