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SUMMARY:A Celebration of John Wilson
DESCRIPTION:For over six decades\, artist John Wilson (1922–2015) created powerful and poetic works that reflected his ongoing quest for racial\, social\, and economic justice. Join a panel of experts to celebrate Wilson as a global visionary and a truthful voice in response to the turbulent times in which he lived. Take a deep dive into the themes explored throughout the exhibition Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson and celebrate Wilson’s unparalleled work and vision. \nThis program is made possible in part by the IFPDA Foundation. \nPresented in conjunction with the exhibition Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson and in celebration of Black History Month. \nFree\, though advance registration is required. Please note: Space is limited; first come\, first served.  \nLisa Farrington\, curator\, art historian\nLowery Stokes Sims\, curator\, art historian\nDerrick Adams\, artist\nFacilitated by Leslie King-Hammond\, artist\, curator\, art historian \n \nImage: John Wilson (American\, 1922–2015). Boulevard de Strasbourg\, 1950. Color lithograph\, 16 in. × 22 7/8 in. (40.6 × 58.1 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York\, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams\, 1999 (1999.529.190) Courtesy of the Estate of John Wilson.
URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/a-celebration-of-john-wilson/
LOCATION:The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, 1000 Fifth Avenue\, New York City\, NY\, 10028\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260130T180000
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SUMMARY:The Michael and Juliet Rubenstein Lecture on Connoisseurship—'Candy Coated Popcorn...' with Kerry James Marshall
DESCRIPTION:Join world-renowned artist Kerry James Marshall in celebrating close looking as a source of inspiration. Known for his large-scale paintings\, Marshall uses the process of close looking to critically examine art history and reassert the place of the Black figure within the canon of Western painting. Learn directly from the artist and his unique practice of connoisseurship as he explores objects from The Met collection\, and shares his perspective on deliberate intent\, creative process\, and thoughtful composition building. \nThis series is made possible by the Michael A. and Juliet van Vliet Rubenstein Fund. \nFree with Museum admission\, though advance registration is required. Please note: Space is limited; first come\, first served. \n \nImage: Kerry James Marshall (American\, born Birmingham\, Alabama\, 1955). Untitled (Studio)\, 2014. Acrylic on PVC panels\, dimensions: 83 5/16 × 119 1/4 in. (211.6 × 302.9 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York\, Purchase\, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation Gift\, Acquisitions Fund and The Metropolitan Museum of Art Multicultural Audience Development Initiative Gift\, 2015 (2015.366) © Kerry James Marshall 
URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/the-michael-and-juliet-rubenstein-lecture-on-connoisseurship-candy-coated-popcorn-with-kerry-james-marshall/
LOCATION:The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, 1000 Fifth Avenue\, New York City\, NY\, 10028\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260117T080000
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SUMMARY:The Brooklyn Bridge Up Close
DESCRIPTION:Before the Brooklyn Bridge became an iconic symbol of New York City\, it was a bold idea sketched on paper. With 11\,000 drawings stored in the city’s Municipal Archives\, its construction is one of the most thoroughly documented engineering projects of the 19th century. Met experts examined a selection of these extraordinary studies through The Met’s Scientific Research Partnerships program—a grant-funded initiative that provides free scientific support to art institutions nationwide. The Brooklyn Bridge Up Close presents seven of these impressive drawings for the first time in forty years\, spotlighting the multiyear collaboration between The Met and the Municipal Archives as well as the Museum’s ongoing commitment to sharing resources with New York City institutions. \nDesigned by German engineer John A. Roebling (1806–1869)\, a pioneer in steel-wire rope technology used for suspension bridges\, the Brooklyn Bridge was completed in 1883 by his son\, Washington A. Roebling (1837–1926)\, with help from skilled assistants. After Washington became ill\, his wife\, Emily Warren Roebling (1843–1903)\, took over supervision of the project and played a crucial role in its success. \nThe Brooklyn Bridge Up Close offers fresh insights into the physical properties of these monumental drawings\, informing future conservation treatments. It also highlights science’s vital role in uncovering new narratives and providing unprecedented access to artists’ creative processes. \n\n\nThis special installation is made possible by the Mellon Foundation.\n\n\n\n\nThe Scientific Research Partnerships program is supported by the Mellon Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. \n \nImage: John A. Roebling\, Presentation drawing for the East River Bridge (detail)\, 1867. Pen\, ink\, and watercolor on paper. NYC Municipal Archives\, no. 149A
URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/the-brooklyn-bridge-up-close/
LOCATION:The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, 1000 Fifth Avenue\, New York City\, NY\, 10028\, United States
CATEGORIES:Current,Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250921
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SUMMARY:Allegory and Abstraction: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Drawings and Prints boasts more than one million drawings\, prints\, and illustrated books made in Europe and the Americas from around 1400 to the present day. Because of their number and sensitivity to light\, the works can only be exhibited for a limited period. To highlight the vast range of works on paper\, the department organizes four rotations a year in the Robert Wood Johnson\, Jr. Gallery. Each installation is the product of a collaboration among curators and consists of up to 100 objects grouped by artist\, technique\, style\, period\, or subject. \nThe current installation explores the ways artists embed their works with complex layers of meaning\, whether relating stories\, ideas\, and feelings through symbols\, as in allegory\, or suggesting them through line\, color\, and pattern\, as in abstraction. Featured is Matisse’s 1947 series Jazz\, a spectacular array of bold\, colorful images that bring to mind ostensibly joyful memories of circuses\, folktales\, and travel\, while also alluding to the dark days in France during World War II. From the same year\, Louise Bourgeois’s He Disappeared into Complete Silence\, described by the artist as “a drama of the self\,” similarly deploys allegory and abstraction to create a compelling psychological self-portrait. Also on view are depictions of dancers\, ranging in date from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. In these works\, palpable emotions and entire stories unfold through abstract bodily movements. \nCompleting the selection are important watercolors by J. M.W. Turner and Thomas Girtin in recognition of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of each artist’s birth—practitioners whose treatment of light\, color\, and atmosphere anticipated aspects of twentieth-century abstraction. \n \nImage:  Joseph Mallord William Turner\, The Lake of Zug\, 1843\, Watercolor and bodycolor (gouache) with reductive techniques over graphite. 11 3/4 × 18 3/8 in. (29.8 × 46.6 cm)
URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/allegory-and-abstraction-selections-from-the-department-of-drawings-and-prints/
LOCATION:The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, 1000 Fifth Avenue\, New York City\, NY\, 10028\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Past
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250920
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SUMMARY:Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson
DESCRIPTION:For over six decades\, the American artist John Wilson (1922–2015) made powerful and poetic works that captured his life as a Black American artist and his ongoing quest for racial\, social\, and economic justice. Wilson’s art reflected on and responded to the turbulent times in which he lived. His subjects included racial violence\, labor\, the writings of Richard Wright\, the Civil Rights Movement\, street scenes\, and intimate images of family life\, with a particular focus on fatherhood. Despite the power of his art and the continuing relevance of the themes he explored\, Wilson’s work has not received the recognition it deserves. \nWorking in a figurative style\, Wilson sought to portray what he called “a universal humanity.” While still a teenager\, he was struck by the absence of positive representations of Black Americans and their experiences in both museums and popular culture. To counter such prejudices and omissions\, Wilson put the experiences of Black Americans at the center and created images that portrayed dignity and strength. \nThe exhibition features over 100 artworks made over the course of Wilson’s career\, many of which have not been shown before. The exhibition begins with work he made while in art school in Boston\, where his subjects included the horrors of Nazi Germany and American racial violence\, as well as portraits of his family and neighborhood. It continues through his time in Paris\, Mexico City\, and New York\, capturing the humanity and scope of Wilson’s art. The exhibition concludes with Wilson’s return to Boston and his focus on portraiture. Included are maquettes and works on paper for two of Wilson’s most celebrated works—his sculpture of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the U.S. Capitol and the monumental sculpture Eternal Presence. \nWitnessing Humanity will be the largest exhibition of Wilson’s work and the artist’s first solo museum show in New York. Visitors will see superb examples of Wilson’s paintings\, prints\, drawings\, and sculpture\, as well as illustrations for children’s books and archival material. \n   \n\n\n\n\nThe exhibition is made possible by the Enterprise Holdings Endowment\, the Mellon Foundation\, and Dave Williams in memory of Reba Williams. \nThe exhibition is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston. \nImage: John Wilson (American\, 1922–2015). My Brother\, 1942. Oil on panel\, 12 x 10 5/8 in. (30.48 x 26.9875 cm). Smith College Museum of Art\, Purchased\, (SC 1943.4.1) Courtesy of the Estate of John Wilson.
URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/witnessing-humanity-the-art-of-john-wilson/
LOCATION:The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, 1000 Fifth Avenue\, New York City\, NY\, 10028\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250208
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SUMMARY:Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature
DESCRIPTION:Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) reimagined European landscape painting by portraying nature as a setting for profound spiritual and emotional encounters. Working in the vanguard of the German Romantic movement\, which championed a radical new understanding of the bond between nature and the inner self\, Friedrich developed pictorial subjects and strategies that emphasize the individuality\, intimacy\, open-endedness\, and complexity of our responses to the natural world. The vision of the landscape that unfolds in his art—meditative\, mysterious\, and full of wonder—is still vital today. \nCaspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature is the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the artist held in the United States. Organized in cooperation with the Alte Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin\, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden\, and Hamburger Kunsthalle\, with unprecedented loans from more than 30 lenders in Europe and North America\, the exhibition presents approximately 75 works by Friedrich. Oil paintings\, finished drawings\, and working sketches from every phase of the artist’s career\, along with select examples by his contemporaries\, illuminate how Friedrich developed a symbolic vocabulary of landscape motifs to convey the personal and existential meanings that he discovered in nature. The exhibition situates Friedrich’s art within the tumultuous politics and vibrant culture of 19th-century German society and\, by extension\, highlights the role of German Romanticism in shaping modern perceptions of the natural world. \nThe exhibition is complemented by a display of artworks featuring lunar imagery in gallery 554\, located just beyond the exhibition exit. The moon—a motif cherished by Caspar David Friedrich and other Romantic artists—was celebrated across various media\, including paintings\, porcelain\, music\, and poetry. \nThe exhibition is made possible by Marina Kellen French. \nAdditional support is provided by the Janice H. Levin Fund\, Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne\, Barbara A. Wolfe\, an Anonymous Foundation\, The International Council of The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, and Trevor and Alexis Traina. \nCorporate sponsorship is provided by Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe and Allianz X. \nThis exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. \nThe catalogue is made possible by the Wolfgang Ratjen Stiftung\, Liechtenstein\, and the Drue E. Heinz Fund. \nAdditional support is provided by the Tavolozza Foundation\, Hubert and Mireille Goldschmidt\, and Elizabeth Marsteller Gordon. \n \nImage: Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840)\, Statue of the Madonna in the Mountains (detail)\, 1804. Brush and black ink and gray wash\, with graphite\, on cream wove paper. The Art Institute of Chicago\, Margaret Day Blake Collection (1976.22)
URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/caspar-david-friedrich-the-soul-of-nature/
LOCATION:The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, 1000 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10028\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Past
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250207T180000
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SUMMARY:Monet\, Great / Not so Great: Looking Closely
DESCRIPTION:The third annual Michael and Juliet Rubenstein Lecture on Connoisseurship\, presented by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. \nJoin art historian Gloria Groom for a closer look at artworks from Monet’s extraordinarily long career to consider works that are incontestably great—and others\, where his ambition\, technique\, and composition fall short of that adjective. This talk also considers other factors that come into connoisseurship\, including historical context\, tastes of the times\, and\, potentially most importantly\, the market. \nGloria Groom\, Chair and Winton Green Curator\, Department of Painting and Sculpture of Europe\, The Art Institute of Chicago \nFree with The Met Museum admission\, though advance registration is recommended.\nThis lecture will take place in The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium.\nNote: Space is limited; first come\, first served. Priority will be given to those who register. \n_ \nThis event is organized by our partner museum\, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This series is made possible by the Michael A. and Juliet van Vliet Rubenstein Fund. \n \nImage caption: Claude Monet (French\, 1840-1926)\, Cliff Walk at Pourville\, 1882. The Art Institute of Chicago\, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection\, 1933.443.
URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/rubenstein-lectures-on-connoisseurship-2025/
LOCATION:The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, 1000 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10028\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240926
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SUMMARY:Paris through the Eyes of Saint-Aubin
DESCRIPTION:Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724–1780) was a prolific and unconventional draftsman whose drawings invite viewers into every corner of the French capital. As an observer and chronicler\, he prowled the streets of Paris and recorded the full spectrum of daily life in his sketchbooks\, from shop interiors to art auctions and public gardens to rowdy street fairs. Everything he saw was worthy of his attention\, wit\, and empathy. \nSaint-Aubin’s body of work is made up almost entirely of tiny\, portable\, and intricate works on paper. Taken together\, these countless sketches give rise to a deeper view of the city as an organic form. Beyond capturing the tangible\, they bring to light the pride and aspirations of Paris in the 18th century\, a time when sites were being destroyed\, rebuilt\, and reimagined. \nMarking the 300th anniversary of his birth\, the exhibition features a thematic arrangement demonstrating the breadth of Saint-Aubin’s interests. Examples of his drawings and prints\, drawn from The Met’s holdings and local private collections\, are complemented by a selection of works by his family and contemporaries\, offering a context for his career and highlighting the unique nature of his vision. \n \n\nImage: Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (French\, 1724–1780). Trade Card for Périer\, Ironmonger\, 1767. Black chalk\, pen and black and brown inks\, brush and gray and brown wash.\nThe Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York\, Promised Gift of Stephen A. Geiger\, in memory of his parents\, Howard W. Geiger and Mildred K. Geiger\, and in honor of his brother\, Julian R. Geiger\, 2022
URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/the-met-paris-through-the-eyes-of-saint-aubin/
LOCATION:The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, 1000 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10028\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Past
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