Beauty and Learning: Korean Painted Screens
Painted screens depicting books, scholarly accoutrements, antiquarian collectibles, and auspicious objects first gained popularity in Korea in the late 18th century. They served as pictorial representations of objects suitable for display in a scholar-gentleman's study. This special installation presents four screens dating from the late 19th to the early 20th century, drawn from American collections. Also included is a six-panel collage on this theme by a contemporary Korean artist. This is the first exhibition in the U.S. to focus on this important and visually arresting genre of Korean painting.
Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960
This installation of works from the permanent collection—the second in the Museum’s new gallery for contemporary photographs—will survey the ways in which artists have directed the camera toward photography itself, taking aim at its claims of transparency and objectivity, its ubiquity in modern life, and its inextricable ties to advertising and consumer culture. Artists include William Anastasi, Robert Heinecken, Allen Ruppersberg, Sherrie Levine, Thomas Ruff, Christopher Williams, Roe Ethridge, Liz Deschenes, James Welling, and Kota Ezawa, among many others.
Jeff Koons: On the Roof
On view is an installation of sculptures by American artist
Jeff Koons (b. 1955), featuring three of the artist’s
meticulously crafted works that have never before been on
public display. The works are set in the most dramatic outdoor
space for sculpture in New York City: The Iris and B. Gerald
Cantor Roof Garden, which offers a spectacular view of Central
Park and the Manhattan skyline.
Giorgio Morandi, 1890–1964
This is a comprehensive survey—the first in this country—of
the career of Giorgio Morandi, one of the greatest 20th-century
masters of still-life and landscape painting in the tradition
of Chardin and Cézanne. The exhibition presents approximately
110 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and etchings from his
early “metaphysical” works to his late evanescent
still lifes, culled mainly from Italian collections, including
those formed with Morandi’s help by his friends and
by renowned scholars of his art.
Accompanied by a catalogue.
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