Met museum Presents

Spring 2013 Season

The Met Reframed: Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky in Residence

An unprecedented Museum artist residency, The Met Reframed is a year-long multilayered artistic partnership with Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid a composer, multimedia artist, writer, and DJ. During the residency DJ Spooky will perform, create new work, lead a gallery tour and host panels and conversations.

ART & THE ENVIRONMENT

Met Salon Series

Of Water and Ice

A multimedia concert of compositions based on water and arctic rhythms. Of Water and Ice is a Met commission.

The Art and Science Dating Game How Artists and Scientists Find Each Other... and What Happens Next?
DJ Spooky, Artist in Residence See page 15.

Saturday, March 23 at 7:00pm: $30

Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Wednesday, March 27 at 6:00 pm: $27

Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall

Sunday at the Met

Art and the Environment

iPad Mixing Piece

Join DJ Spooky, as he shares his experiences from the North and South Poles in a conversation with Museum curators and visual artists about art and the environment as reflected in American culture. Presented in conjunction with the performance of OfWater and Ice, this program offers an opportunity to learn about the permanent collection through discussions and presentations.

An audience participation event using DJSpookys iPad app. Download the free app and bring your device.

Friday, June 21 at 9:30pm: $30

The Great Hall

The Met Reframed is made possible by Marianna Sackler.

Sunday, March 24 at 2:00pm

Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium Free with Museum admission. Reservations and tickets are not required.

DJ Spooky and Bill McKibben in Conversation: Climate Change

Following up on DJ Spookys multimedia work Of Water and Ice, DJ Spooky will be joining environmentalist Bill McKibben in a conversation about climate change and its effect on our planet, our environment and our culture. The panelists share a deep concern for the environment, and marshal their individual and collective creativity to effect positive and sustainable change.

Thursday, May 9 at 6:00pm: $25

Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

DJ Spooky Stephanie Berger

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N a u r u I s l an d

C ivi l W ar

DJ Spooky: The Nauru Elegies

A meeting of live music, video, animation and live internet feed of GPS coordinates of specific aspects of the South Pacific island of Nauru and its physical and financial infrastructure. Featuring the Pannonia Quartet.

Photography and the American Civil War

World premiere of a music/video work using images from the Mets spring Civil War photography exhibition.

Friday, May 10 at 7:00pm: $30

Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Friday, January 18 at 7:00pm: $30

Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Met Salon Series

Gallery Tour

Documenting War
DJ Spooky, Artist in Residence Susan Meiselas, Photographer Jeff L. Rosenheim, Curator in Charge, Department of Photographs See page 15.

DJ Spooky in the OceanicGalleries

Join DJ Spooky in the Galleries for Oceanic Art to see this collection through his eyes and discover what inspired his new project, The Nauru Elegies.

Tuesday, May 21 at 6:00 pm: $27

Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall These events are in conjunction with the exhibition Photography and the American Civil War, April 2 September 2, 2013. The exhibition is made possible by The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation.

Saturday, January 19 at 4:00pm

Free with Museum admission. Space is limited to 90. Tickets available at 3:30pm in Gallery 354.

Met Salon Series

In/Visible: The Economic and Environmental Plights of an IslandNation

See page 14.

Purchase a full-price ticket to a DJSpooky concert event and join us in either the Petrie Court Caf or the Balcony Bar for a chefs inspired complimentary appetizer with your order.
Valid Friday and Saturday between 5:30-8 pm on the day of the ticketed event Cannot be combined with another promotion

Wednesday, January 23 at 6:00 pm: $27

Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall

Photo of Nauru DJ Spooky

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Framing Beethoven: Concerts and conversations

Englands acclaimed Endellion String Quartet performs the complete Beethoven String Quartet cycle. This rare New York appearance will be accompanied by talks and lectures about Beethoven and his impact on the death of Classicism.

The Endellion String Quartet: Beethoven String Quartets

Theres irresistible joie de vivre...The ensemble conveys the kind of spontaneous enjoyment that only comes from the best chamber music playing.BBC Music Magazine

Friday, February 15, at 7:30pm

Opus 18, No. 2; Opus 59, No. 3; Opus 130 (with Beethovens alternative last movement)

Saturday, February 16, at 7:00pm

Opus 18, No. 6; Opus 18, No. 1; Opus 132

Sunday, February 17, at 2:00pm

Opus 18, No. 4; Opus 74; Opus 131
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Friday, February 22, at 7:30pm

Opus 18, No. 5; Opus 135; Opus 59, No. 2

kids
for $1

$1 tickets for children (ages716) accompanied by a paying adult.

Saturday, February 23, at 7:00pm

Opus 18, No. 3; Opus 95; Opus 127

Sunday, February 24, at 2:00pm

Opus 59, No. 1; Opus 130 (with original last movement, i.e., Grosse Fuge)

Series of 6 concerts: $180 Single tickets: $40

Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

This series is supported in part by the Grace Jarcho Ross and Daniel G. Ross Concert Fund. Please note that concerts on Friday, February 15 and Friday, February 22 begin at 7:30 pm.

ta l k s Setting the Stage: A Few Notes on Romantic Painting

Kathryn Calley Galitz, Associate Museum Educator The rise of Romanticism in the early nineteenth century signaled a rejection of Neoclassical ideals. Reason and order gave way to emotion and untamed nature. This talk focuses on works by Beethovens contemporaries, including Delacroix and Friedrich, setting the stage for the Romantic revolution.

Friday, February 15 at 6:00pm: $25

Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

The Roar That Lies on the OtherSide of Silence

Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, is also a classically trained pianist and the author of Beethoven: The Universal Composer. In this talk, including audio clips and keyboard examples, Morris explores how a deaf genius made art out of his disability, examining the ways in which many of Beethovens most exquisite (or sometimes frightening) sound effects may have arisen from his deafness.

Tuesday, February 19 at 6:00pm: $25

Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium This lecture will be Sign Language interpreted.

Beethoven: The Sights and Sounds of the Romantic Sublime

Marsha Morton, Professor, Pratt Institute Beethoven began composing in the 1790s when theories of romanticism and the sublime were being formulated in Germany. This talk will consider the context within which his music came to embody the dark drives, metaphysical essence, and endless longing (E.T.A. Hoffmann) that inspired generations of musicians, artists, and writers, and figured prominently in shiftingdefinitions of artistic and national identity.

Special Series Price

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Friday, February 22 at 6:00pm: $25

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Endellion String Quartet Eric Richmond Edmund Morris Leslie Lillien Levy Antoine-mile Bourdelle, (French 18611929), Beethoven (detail), 1926, Bronze, H. 40-1/2 in. (102.9 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1926 (26.232)

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performance Dan Deacon in The Charles Engelhard Court

If Dan Deacon comes your way, go It will change your life forever. Oh, and the music is insanely good.
Bob Boilen, NPR Music

Electronic composer and party instigator Dan Deacons career spans from the streets to the clubs to Carnegie Hall. His latest project, America, is a love letter and a call to action. In a New York Times profile, Deacon stated: its impossible to think about the land without the history of it, and thats a mixture of guilt and shame. Deacon brings his fluorescent creativity to the Met Museum with a new music/video piece, specifically created for the Charles Engelhard Court in the Mets American Wing. This once-in-a-lifetime performance, combining audience-triggered Dan Deacon Shawn Brackbill sound and light, video projection with live and electronic sounds, explores Dans commitment to civic responsibility through the lens of innovative multimedia performance.

Saturday, April 27 at 8:00 pm: $27 Presented in The Charles Engelhard Court Unreserved seating

Lincoln Seen And Heard

Stephen Lang, star of stage (A Few Good Men), screen (Avatar) and television (Terra Nova) Harold Holzer, award-winning Lincoln scholar and Metropolitan Museum executive Remember Abraham Lincoln through his unforgettable words and revealing images on the 203rd anniversary of his birth. Lincoln was frequently photographed at precisely the time of his most important speeches, and this performance combines his words and pictures to evoke the real Lincoln from his days as prairie politician to the presidency to immortality. In a special encore of a program performed at the White House, Fords Theatre, the George H. W. Bush and William J. Clinton Presidential Libraries, and other venues, actor Stephen Lang reads the words of Lincoln, as the Metropolitan Museums Harold Holzer narrates and illustrates with photographs of Lincoln.

Tuesday, February 12 at 6:00pm: $30

Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
Abraham Lincoln, February 9, 1864, Anthony Berger (active 1860s), Brady & Co, (American, active 1840-1880s), Imperial albumen print from wet collodion-on-glass plate negative, 161/8x91/2. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005 (2005.100.1116)

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performance Seven Words A music-video work featuring original live-mixed video installation by Ofri Cnaani
Haydns Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross Performed by the Salzburg Chamber Soloists Lavard Skou Larsen, Director With original live video installation by Ofri Cnaani When Haydns Seven Last Words of Christ On the Cross was first performed during the Good Friday service at the Spanish Cdiz Cathedral in 1786, the audience attended a multimedia performance that included special lighting, spoken words, and live music. Inspired by the original setting, The Met invited artist Ofri Cnaani to create a live video installation to encircle the performers and realize a theatrical context for the music. Lavard Skou Larsens Salzburg Chamber Soloists will give their New York debut with a program featuring their adaptation of the piece to a string orchestra. Looking at the crucifixion as a moment of extreme physicality, ecstasy, and final surrender, Cnaani worked with the Metropolitans prints and drawings collections as source material for a nuanced, metaphorical, universal, and non-literal interpretation of Haydns work. The interaction between sound, word and image underscores a dialogue that is both historical and contemporary.

Friday, March 22 at 7:00 pm: $45

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Top image: video screenshot by Ofri Cnaani Below: Screen shot by Ofri Cnaani detailing Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves: The Three Crosses, Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, 16061669), Drypoint printed on vellum; second state, (15 x 17 1/4 in. (38.1 x 43.8 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Felix M. Warburg and his family, 1941 (41.1.31)

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The Sau-Wing Lam Collection in action

The Sau-Wing Lam Collection of Violins is one of the finest collections of violins currently in private hands. A selection of instruments from the collection will be played by New Yorks dynamic young Salom Chamber Orchestra and guest artists.

Saturday, February 2 at 7:00 pm

The Eight Seasons Salom co-founders Sean Avram Carpenter and David Aaron Carpenter are the soloists in Astor Piazzollas Four Seasons and Vivaldis Four Seasons.

Friday, April 12 at 7:00 pm

The Dark Arts of the Viola Mozarts Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola, and String Orchestra, K. 364; Lera Auerbachs Sogno di Stabat Mater for Violin, Viola, Vibraphone and Orchestra (2008); and Paganinis Sonata per la Grand Viola et Orchestra Op. 35, featuring violist David Aaron Carpenter, violinist Philippe Quint (performing on the Bavarian Stradivari in the Mozart work), and violinist Sean Carpenter (performing on the Baltic Guarneri del Ges of 1731).

Saturday, May 4 at 7:00 pm

The Virtuosic Violin Works by Paganini, Saint-Sans, Kreisler, and Sarasate will be performed by guest violinists Philippe Quint and Chee-Yun, with David Aaron Carpenter, viola.
Bring the

kids
for $1
age 716

and pay $30/ticket (valid on phone orders only: 212-570-3949)

Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Single tickets: $35 Special offer: Purchase single tickets for any two concerts

These concerts are made possible by The Horace W.Goldsmith Foundation. These events are in conjunction with The Sau-Wing Lam Collection of Rare Italian Stringed Instruments on view through June 30, 2013. The exhibition is made possible by The Amati: Friends of the Department of Musical Instruments.
Sau-Wing Lam with a Violin Photo Credit: The Family of Sau-Wing Lam Giuseppe Guarneri del Ges (16981744) Baltic Violin, Cremona, 1731 Two-piece spruce top, one-piece maple back Body length: 35.20 cm (13.9 in.) Lent by the Family of Sau-Wing Lam

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performance Metropolitan Museum Artists inConcert 10th Anniversary Season

...the most consistently satisfying chamber-music seriesin New York
The New York Times

Edward Arron, artistic director

Friday, January 11 at 7:00 pm

Boccherini: String Trio Kurtag: Jelk for Solo Viola, Opus 5 Dvor k: Piano Quartet in D Major, Opus 23

Friday, March 29 at 7:00 pm

Schnittke: Musica Nostalgica for Cello and Piano(1992) Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky: Work for String Trio, world premiere Shostakovich: Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok for Soprano and Piano Trio, Opus127 Beethoven: Piano Quartet in E flat Major, Opus16

CONTACT! The New York Philharmonics NewMusic Series at the Met

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age 716

must-hear adventures with provocative, enticing contemporary music.

The New York Times

Friday, June 7 at 7:00 pm

Biber: Passacaglia in G Minor for Solo Violin Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, arranged for String Trio by Dmitri Sitkovetsky

Single tickets: $35

Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Bring the

The New York Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Museum present the fourth season of CONTACT!, the Philharmonics acclaimed new music series curated by Maestro Alan Gilbert, and featuring world premieres, US premieres and New York Philharmonic-commissioned works. Alan Gilbert, conductor Liang Wang, oboe Unsuk Chin: Gougalon, US premiere Poul Ruders: Oboe Concerto, US premiere Anders Hillborg: Vaporized Tivoli, New York premiere Yann Robin: Backdraft, US premiere, New York Philharmonic co-commission with the Fundao Casa da Msica, Portugal

These concerts are generously supported by the Brodsky Family Foundation.

kids
for $1
age 716

Friday, April 5 at 7:00pm: Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

$20

This series is made possible by the Xerox Foundation.

Metropolitan Museum Artists Rahav Segev Alan Gilbert Chris Lee

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Punk
Performances celebrating the exhibition Punk: Chaos to Couture Presented in collaboration with Wordless Music
Liars in The Temple of Dendur

Breaking out into the New York dance-punk scene in 2000, Liars versatile and constantly transforming work retains a consistent interest in rhythm and sound texture even as their style shifts dramatically between albums. Their embrace of interdisciplinary multimedia makes them much more than just a mere rock band. Liars music cant be separated from the visuals that typically accompany each album its all about eluding expectations and sabotaging casual interpretation a consistent approach that continues to produce works like WIXIW (their sixth studio album) that defy categorization. In a review for BBC Music, John Doran called the album an unqualified success. For their Met Museum debut, Liars present a multimedia site-specific performance in the Temple of Dendur.

Saturday, May 18 at 7:00 pm: $25

Presented in The Temple of Dendur in The Sackler Wing Unreserved seating

So Percussion & Man Forever

An evening of drumming by the celebrated ensemble So Percussion and composer/ percussionist John Colpittss experimental drum project Man Forever. Coined New York Citys experimental powerhouse by The Village Voice, So Percussion Americas premiere modern percussion ensemble brings their adventurous spirit to the Met Museum to explore the DIY and experimental components of punk. John Colpitts (aka Kid Millions) is a Brooklynbased multi-instrumentalist, composer and writer who is perhaps best known as the drummer for Oneida. Man Forever is his vehicle for exploring the outer limits of drum experimentation and performance. Since 2010, Man Forever has released two full-length albums and two live recordings.

Saturday, June 8 at 7:00 pm: $25

Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

This series is made possible in part by Isabel C. Iverson and Walter T. Iverson.
These events are in conjunction with PUNK: Chaos to Couture on view from May 7 August 11, 2013. The exhibition is made possible by Moda Operandi. Additional support is provided by Cond Nast.

Liars Zen Sekizawa So Percussion LiveWellPhoto Man Forever Joshua Bright

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Iraq Now!
A festival of contemporary Iraqi culture Presented in collaboration with Alwan for the Arts

Zaha Hadid
In conversation with Sheila Canby, Patti Cadby Birch Curator in Charge of the Museums Department of Islamic Art, and Joseph Giovannini, architect One of the foremost Iraqis of her generation and an internationally celebrated architect Ms. Hadid speaks about culture, transition and architecture in the evolving global arena.

Thursday, March 14 at 6:00pm: $35

Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Naseer Shamma and Al-Oyoun Ensemble

His technical prowess is bewitching it transforms listening into a mystical experience. All it takes him is a properly tuned oud to lead you far into the depths of metaphysics, then back onto the political plane. Al-Ahram Weekly, Cairo Naseer Shamma is one of Iraqs leading cultural icons. He is a leader of the famed Iraqi oud school, a virtuosic approach to the instrument (an Arab lute) that began in the early 20th century, combining Turkish techniques and aesthetics with the melodies and spirit of traditional Iraqi maqam music. Both a composer and performer, Shamma has created an innovative approach to the oud, expanding its technical capabilities and influencing players across the Arab region. In his first performance in the US in more than a decade, Shamma will appear with his Al-Oyoun Ensemble seven virtuoso musicians from Cairo performing in a contemporary style of Shammas own creation, which he calls Arab Chamber Music.

Saturday, March 9 at 7:00pm: $25

Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre, exterior perspective, render Zaha Hadid Architects Zaha Hadid Simone Cecchetti

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masters at the met

A series celebrating iconic composers, performers, and soloists.

Charles Lloyd New Quartet and Friends at The Temple of Dendur

with Special Guest Maria Farantouri
 Follow the career of Charles Lloyd, and you see a map of great jazz across half a century... (his) shows, full of momentum and intuition, perfectly represent the idea that the best jazz needs to be experienced live.
The New York Times

Charles Lloyd: tenor saxophone, alto flute, tarogato Maria Farantouri: vocals; Alicia Hall Moran: vocals; Jason Moran: piano; Reuben Rogers: bass; Eric Harland: drums; Sokratis Sinopoulos: lyra Over the past 20 years, tenor saxophone titan Charles Lloyd has charted a trajectory as one of the most inventive musicians in jazz history. In celebration of his 75th birthday today! Charles Lloyd brings us the unparalleled creativity of his current quartet with the remarkable vocals of Greek legend, Maria Farantouri, in music that spans from Byzantine hymns to 21st century jazz.

Friday, March 15 at 7:00pm: $50

Presented in The Temple of Dendur in The Sackler Wing Unreserved seating

Only New York Concert

Paco Pea Flamenco DanceCompany

A genuine virtuoso, capable of dazzling an audience with technical abilities beyond the fretsof mortal man. New York Times Paco Pea, guitarist, composer, dramatist, producer and artistic mentor, returns to New York with his outstanding Flamenco Dance Company, a revelatory troupe (New York Times), to present Flamenco Vivoa journey into the heart of Andaluca packed with all the intensity, depth, and raw energy that have become the maestros trademark. The stellar cast includes: Rafael Montilla, Paco Arriaga: guitarists; Jos ngel Carmona, Cristina Pareja: vocalists; Julio Cesar Alcocer: percussionist; Ramn Martinez, Charo Espino, ngel Muoz: dancers

Saturday, January 19 at 7:00 pm: $60

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Paco Pea Flamenco Dance Company is co-presented by the WorldMusic Institute.

Charles Lloyd D. Darr Paco Pea Cesar Alcocer

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M a s t e r s at t h e M e t Jordi Savall

Jordi Savall called an early-music superstar by The New York Times has been a celebrated musical figure for three decades.He is known for single-handedly reviving theviola dagambas prominenceon stage and for rediscovering forgotten musical gems.Savall returns to the Met for a performance ofLudi Musici:An Exploration of the Creation of the Modern Orchestra. This performance will take place in the unique Vlez Blanco Patio, which has been recognized around the world as one of the jewels of early Renaissance Spain, melding indigenous Gothic and Hispano-Moresque structure precedents.

Friday, January 25 at 7:00 pm: $90

Presented in the Vlez Blanco Patio Unreserved seating

This program is developed in collaboration with the Juilliard Schools Historical Performance Department.

Judy Collins

sold out

One of folk musics beloved icons performs a love-themed concert in celebration of Valentines Day.

Thursday, February 14 at 7:00pm: $65

Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

This concert is supported by the estate of KathrynWalter Stein.

Join us for

Valentines Day
in the
Members Dining Room

Members of the Museum and ticket holders to Judy Collins are invited to enjoy a three-course Perfect Pairs Dinner in the Members Dining Room, featuring classic food and wine pairings for $100 per person. The Members Dining Room will have pre- and post-concert dinner seatings available. The Petrie Court Caf and Wine Bar will feature an elegant three-course prix fixe paired with a glass of sparkling wine for $60 per person. Reservations suggested. For information, please call 212-570-3975.

Jordi Savall Vico Chamla Judy Collins James Vesey

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Met Salon Series

Engage with Met curators, artists and guests in an informal setting, over coffee and light refreshments.
In/Visible:The Economic and Environmental Plights of an Island Nation
DJ Spooky, Artist in Residence Michael Gerrard, Professor and Director, Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School Lisa Sachs, Director, Vale Columbia Center Lane Greene, moderatorThe Economist Island nations some quite rich with natural resources have unique economic and environmental challenges. The short-term economic benefits of extraction versus long-term fiscal and ecological stability create legal and ethical concerns with implications far beyond their shores. The islands themselves are also at risk of disappearing from rising sea levels due to climate change. In this companion conversation to the The Nauru Elegies (see page 3), join DJ Spooky in dialogue with Michael Gerrard and Lisa Sachs as they look at the threat climate change poses to Nauru and other island nations, and the legal and international investment issues involved in moving them towards sustainability.

Wednesday, January 23 at 6:00 pm: $27

Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall

This event is made possible by Marianna Sackler.

Matisse: In Search of True Painting

Rebecca Rabinow, Curator, Department of Modern andContemporary Art Henri Matisse (18691954) is one of the most acclaimed masters of his generation. The critic Clement Greenberg, writing in The Nation in 1949, called him a self-assured master who can no more help painting well than breathing. However, painting had rarely come easily to Matisse. Throughout his career, he questioned, repainted and reevaluated his work. Curator Rebecca Rabinow explains how Matisse used his completed canvases as tools, repeating compositions in order to compare effects, gauge his progress, and, as he put it, push further and deeper into true painting. For Matisse, the process of creation was not simply a means to an end but a dimension of his art that was as important as the finished canvas.

Wednesday, February 13 at 6:00 pm: $27

Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall

This talk is offered in conjunction with the exhibition Matisse: In Search of True Painting, on view December 4, 2012-March 17, 2013. The exhibition is made possible in part by Vacheron Constantin. Additional support is provided by the Jane and Robert Carroll Fund and the Diane W. and James E. Burke Fund. The exhibition is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in collaboration with the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, and the Centre Pompidou, Muse National dArt Moderne, Paris. The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
Henri Matisse (French 18691954), Nasturtiums with the Painting Dance I, 1912, oil on canvas, 75 1/2 x 45 3/8 in. (191.8 x 115.3cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982 (1984.433.16). 2013 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Met Salon Series The Art and Science Dating Game How Artists and Scientists Find Each Other... and What Happens Next?
DJ Spooky, Artist in Residence The potency of collaborations between artists and scientists is undeniable. But how do these collaborations actually work? How do artists and scientists find each other outside of their labs and studios? How do they turn their mutual interests in environment and climate change into sustained relationships? Join artist, producer and activist DJ Spooky for an informal conversation about partnerships between artists and scientists, and the new work, new research and new thinking that can emerge from innovative trans-disciplinary collaborations. Participants will include pairs of artists and scientists from the PositiveFeedback consortium of Columbia University, New York University and the City University of New York. Audience members are encouraged to mingle with panelists following the presentation.

Wednesday, March 27 at 6:00 pm: $27

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This event is made possible by Marianna Sackler. This presentation is co-produced by PositiveFeedback, an initiative of The Earth Institute, Columbia University; Center for Creative Research, NYU; and the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities, designed specifically to support the research collaborations of artists and scientists focused on climate change.

Georgia OKeeffe: New Mexico/New Subjects

Lisa Messinger, Associate Curator, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art See the American Southwest through the eyes of painter Georgia OKeeffe as she first encounters it in 1929 and then immortalizes the relics and landscapes around her New Mexico homes into American icons in the 1930s and 40s.

Wednesday, May 8 at 6:00 pm: $27

Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall

Georgia OKeeffe, (American 1887-1986), Ranchos Church, 1930, oil on canvas, 24 x 36 in. (61x91.4cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1961 (61.258).

Documenting War
DJ Spooky, Artist in Residence Susan Meiselas, Photographer Jeff L. Rosenheim, Curator in Charge, Department of Photographs Jeff Rosenheim leads a conversation with DJ Spooky and acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Susan Meiselas, who gained international acclaim through her coverage of the insurrection in Nicaragua and her documentation of human rights issues in Latin America. Reflecting on the exhibition Photography and the American Civil War, the panel will explore issues of documentation, creation of history, narrative and the role of the artist at the intersection between art and war.

Tuesday, May 21 at 6:00 pm: $27

Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall This event is in conjunction with Photography and the American Civil War on view from April 2September 2, 2013. The exhibition is made possible by The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation.

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Photographing War
Performances and Conversations in conjunction with the exhibition Photography and the American Civil War
Geraldine Brooks and Tony Horwitz: A Civil War Dialogue
Moderator: Bill Goldstein, book critic of NBCs Weekend Today in New York The novelist Geraldine Brooks and the historian Tony Horwitz have both written about the Civil War and are married to one another. Join them as they discuss their work, including her novel March and his Confederates in the Attic and Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War, and how as husband and wife, historian and historical novelist, they have approached the Civil War and the writing of historywith different aims, styles, concerns and conclusions.

Wednesday, April 10 at 6:00pm: $25

Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Documenting War Today: Sebastian Junger

Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm and War, is one of Americas most acclaimed writers and filmmakers. He collaborated with the award-winning photo journalist Tim Hetherington (who was later killed on assignment in Libya) on the Oscar-nominated documentary Restrepo, which chronicled the deployment of a platoon of US soldiers in Afghanistans Korengal Valley. Mr. Junger will talk about documenting and photographing todays battlefield, and about how the camera both video and still create the narrative of war today. He will offer his personal perspective on how the photographer, the reporter, and the filmmaker face and record the brutality and violence of war, risk their lives to do so, and sometimes die in battle alongside the soldiers and civilians whose experiences they are covering.

Thursday, April 11 at 6:00 pm: $25

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D J S p oo k y

Photography and the American Civil War

World premiere of a music/video work using images from the Mets spring Civil War photography exhibition.

Met Salon Series

Documenting War
DJ Spooky, Artist in Residence Susan Meiselas, Photographer Jeff L. Rosenheim, Curator in Charge, Department of Photographs See page 15.

Friday, May 10 at 7:00pm: $30

Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

These events are made possible by Marianna Sackler.

Tuesday, May 21 at 6:00 pm: $27

Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall

Photography and the American Civil War is on view April 2-September 2, 2013. The exhibition is made possible by The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation. 16

Tony Horwitz Randi Baird Geraldine Brooks Randi Baird Sebastian Junger Tim Hetherington

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ta l k s African Art, New York and the Avant-Garde

Nell Irvin Painter, Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, Princeton University Sarah Lewis, faculty, Yale University School of Art Introduced by Yaelle Biro, Assistant curator for African Art Nell Painter, in conversation with Sarah Lewis, examines the legacy of the first interaction of white collectors and taste-makers with African art and African-American artists one hundred years ago and reveals how this hidden history is an essential backdrop for understanding key cultural, social and political aspects of race in America. This talk is in conjunction with African Art, New York and the Avant-Garde, a show highlighting African arts arrival in New York and its impact on Modernism in the United States.

Tuesday, March 19 at 6:00 pm: $25

Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Malvin Gray Johnson (1896-1934), Negro Masks, 1932, oil on canvas, H. x W.: 20 x 18 in. (50.8 x 45.72 cm) With frame: 21 1/4 x 19 3/8. Collection of the Hampton University Museum, Hampton, Virginia.

This event is in conjunction with the exhibition African Art, New York, andthe Avant-Garde on view through April 14, 2013. This exhibition is made possible by the Friends of the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.

Leonardo da Vinci

Explore the life and process of Leonardo da Vinci and gain insights into his practice and method.

March 6: Leonardo da Vinci: Singular and Plural

Luke Syson, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Curator in Charge, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Leonardo worked on a surprisingly small number of works the Mona Lisa among them refining and altering them over years. This method created a production bottleneck that could only be dealt with through delegating, leaving us with the problem of how we distinguish a fully autograph product from a painting made in the workshop. This lecture by Luke Syson (organizer of the triumphant exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan, at Londons National Gallery) explores artistic production, collaboration and delegation, and will track Leonardos personal journey from a solitary artist to a collaborator working with pupils, assistants and peers, and back.

March 13: Rethinking Leonardo in his Old Age

Carmen Bambach, Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints The late years of Leonardo da Vinci have often been minimized in comparison to his achievements in Florence and Milan. This may be because its sometimes fashionable to consider an artists production in old age past its prime or merely a replication of earlier, more successfully received work. In this talk, Carmen Bambach (who organized the Mets seminal 2003 exhibition Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman) examines Leonardos later years and the riches of his interior life and his concrete, multi-faceted production as an artist-thinker. What lies at front and center in the work of Leonardos old age is the unfinished dimension of his thought and production.

2 Wednesday at 6:00pm: $40 Single tickets: $25

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This series is made possible by the Giorgio S. Sacerdote Fund.

Leonardo da Vinci (Italian 14521519), The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right, 1508-12, Black chalk, charcoal, and red chalk, with some traces of white chalk (?); some remains of framing outline in pen and brown ink at upper right (not by Leonardo), (Sheet: 8 x 6 1/8 in. (20.3 x 15.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1951 (51.90).

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ta l k s Tulips Beyond Holland: Inspirations from Flowers in Islamic Art A Lecture Demonstration
Remco Van Vliet, 3rd generation Dutch Master Florist Navina Najat Haidar, Curator, Department of Islamic Art Floral forms, whether appearing on scrolling arabesques or enclosed in cusped arches, are among the most enchanting aspects of the art of the Islamic world. The Islamic ideal of paradise conceived of as a garden lies at the root of much of the floral imagery. Historical engagement with medicinal plants; the development of scents and other related products; the response to the natural environment and exchanges with other cultures are also reflected in the development of styles of floral decoration or motifs in Islamic art and architecture. Remco Van Vliet, 3rd generation Dutch Master Florist will create arrangements with fresh flowers inspired by plants and compositions in the art of the Arab world, Turkey, Iran and India. Dish Depicting Two Birds Among

Wednesday, May 15 at 2:30pm Single tickets: $30 Premium Seating (first 4 rows): $45 Mezzanine Seating: $25
Discounts available for groups of 15 or more. Please call 212-570-3949.
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Flowering Plants, Dish, (Turkey, Iznik ca. 157590), Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze, H. 2 3/8 in. Diam. of rim: 11 3/16 in. (28.4 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of James J. Rorimer in appreciation of Maurice Dimands curatorship, 19331959, 1959 (59.69.1)

From Canvas to Costume: Painting at the Intersection of Theater and Film

Tim Gunn and a stellar panel of todays most visionary and influential costume designers explore the ways in which painting and other visual arts of the past and the present serve as an enduring inspiration in their work for stage, screen and television. Join Emmy Award-winner Janie Bryant (Deadwood and Mad Men), Tony Award-winning director and designer Julie Taymor (The Lion King, Across the Universe, The Tempest); and Catherine Zuber, five-time Tony Award-winner (South Pacific, The Light in the Piazza) as they discuss how the visual arts of the past and the collections of the Met itself shape their own art and serve as touchstone and context for understanding their achievements in costuming in a variety of media.

Wednesday, April 24 at 6:00 pm: $35

Photo of Gina Breedlove as Sarabi. Photo by Per Breiehagen Disney

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ta l k s Glittering Images: An Evening with Camille Paglia

In conversation with Carrie Rebora Barratt, Associate Director for Collections and Administration Camille Paglia, the renowned cultural critic whose audacious and ground-breaking Sexual Personae is one of the most highly praised and controversial works of recent art history, comes to the Met to discuss her newest book, Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars, and to examine the role museums essential guardians of the centrality of art to contemporary life play in an America where awareness of the fine arts may be receding, as she puts it, drastically and tragically in ways that people who live in cities with great museums dont realize.

Wednesday, May 22 at 6:00 pm: $30

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From La Vie Moderne to La Belle Epoque Art and Society in Paris from 1853-1914
Jerrilynn Dodds, Dean, Sarah Lawrence College The period between the 1850s and World War I in Paris is known as time when intellectuals, artists, writers and performers transformed the city physically, artistically and socially. Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, Marx, Marie Curie, Freud, Zola and Baudelaire were all setting the stage for the modern world with new discoveries, new ideas and new ways of looking at society and social relations. The resulting art and literature would scandalize, push against convention, humanize and ultimately help to transform and shape the modern world. March 1 Manet, Courbet and Baudelaire: Art, the City and the birth of Modern Life March 8 From Degas to Lautrec: The City and the Dark Side of Caf Society

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Plain or Fancy, Restraint and Exuberance: A Conversation about Taste

Wayne Koestenbaum, author, The Queens Throat, Humiliation Luke Syson, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Curator in Charge, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts The Metropolitan Museum of Arts exhibition Plain or Fancy: Restraint and Exuberance in the Decorative Arts culls highlights from the Mets permanent collections to contrast restrained (plain) works of art with richly ornamented (fancy) ones, focusing on those moments in history when pendulum shifts made a sharp swing in one direction or another. Wayne Koestenbaum, one of todays most influential and controversial cultural critics, joins Luke Syson for a conversation exploring the ways in which stylistic choices may also be moral ones and how our aesthetic responses are shaped by shame and judgment. Do you like your art plain or fancy? And what does taste mean, really? (left) Service, Coffee and Tea (Djeuner Chinois Reticul),

Wednesday, May 15 at 6:00 pm: $25

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185561. Hard-paste porcelain. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Helen Boehm, in memory of her late husband, Edward Marshall Boehm, 1969 (69.193.1.11) (right) Josef Hoffmann (Austrian, 18701956), Tea Service, ca. 1910. Silver, amethyst, carnelian, and ebony. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky Fund, 2000 (2000.278.1-.9)

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Giulio Cesare: Met Meets Met

In anticipation of the Metropolitan Operas new production of Handels Giulio Cesare, this second Met Meets Met collaboration explores the world of Julius Caesar. Metropolitan Museum curator Christopher Lightfoot (Curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art) discusses Caesars sojourn in Egypt and the impact of Egyptian art on Rome, setting the stage for a conversation with celebrated director David McVicar and set designer Robert Jones. The creative duo will talk about audience conceptions of this historical era versus the reality, and how they approached their new staging of the work. Countertenor David Daniels, who stars as Caesar in the Mets new production, will perform an excerpt from the opera.

Thursday, March 28 at 6:00 pm: $25

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Not Only Photoshop: Manipulating the News, andHow to Prevent It

Margaret Sullivan, Public Editor of The New York Times The Met exhibition After Photoshop: Manipulated Photography in the Digital Age showcases various ways in which artists have used digital technology to manipulate the photographic image over the past twenty years. Margaret Sullivan examines the risks and dangers of this manipulation. How can the news organizations of today and the future remain fast, accurate and authoritative in a social media world? And what are the larger repercussions for public debate on todays essential political and social questions when the pace and accuracy (or inaccuracy) of social media pose ever-shifting challenges to civic life?

Tuesday, April 23 at 6:00 pm: $25

Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium This event is in conjunction with the exhibition After Photoshop: Manipulated Photography in the Digital Age on view through May 27, 2013.

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Tickets: Four Ways to Order

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Met museum Presents

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Metropolitan Museum Artists DJ Spooky: The Nauru Elegies Gallery Talk: DJ Spooky in the Oceanic Galleries Masters at the Met: Paco Pea Flamenco Dance Company Met Salon Series: DJ Spooky (Gerrard/Sachs/Greene) Masters at the Met: Jordi Savall

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From La Vie Moderne to La Belle Epoque (Dodds) Leonardo da Vinci (Syson) From La Vie Moderne to La Belle Epoque (Dodds) Iraq Now!: Naseer Shamma and Al-Oyoun Ensemble Leonardo da Vinci (Bambach) Iraq Now!: Zaha Hadid Masters at the Met: Charles Lloyd New Quartet and Friends African Art, New York and the Avant-Garde (Painter/Lewis/Biro) Seven Words DJ Spooky: Of Water and Ice DJ Spooky: Art and the Environment Met Salon Series: The Art and Science Dating Game (DJ Spooky) Giulio Cesare: Met Meets Met (Lightfoot/et al) Metropolitan Museum Artists
performance talk bring the kids (see page 21)

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CONTACT! New York Philharmonic Geraldine Brooks and Tony Horwitz: A Civil War Dialogue Documenting War Today: Sebastian Junger Sau-Wing Lam Collection in Action: The Dark Arts of the Viola Not Only Photoshop: Manipulating the News (Sullivan) From Canvas to Costume (Gunn/Bryant/Taymor/Zuber) Dan Deacon in The Charles Engelhard Court

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Sau-Wing Lam Collection in Action: The Virtuosic Violin Met Salon Series: Georgia OKeeffe (Messinger) DJ Spooky and Bill McKibben in Conversation: Climate Change DJ Spooky: Photography and the American Civil War Tulips Beyond Holland (Van Vliet/Haidar) Plain or Fancy, Restraint and Exuberance (Koestenbaum/Syson) Liars in The Temple of Dendur Met Salon Series: Documenting War (DJ Spooky/Meiselas/Rosenheim) Glittering Images: An Evening with Camille Paglia

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Live Streaming from the Met

Cant be here in person?
Friday, January 18 at 7:00 pm
DJ Spooky: The Nauru Elegies (page 3)

Visit metmuseum.org/livestream for a live web stream of these events. Friday, March 22 at 7:00 pm
Seven Words (page 7)

Thursday, February 14 at 7:00 pm

Judy Collins (page 13)

Saturday, March 23 at 7:00 pm

DJ Spooky: Of Water and Ice (page 2)

Saturday, March 9 at 7:00 pm

Iraq Now! Naseer Shamma and Al-Oyoun Ensemble (page 11)

Friday, May 10 at 7:00 pm

DJ Spooky: Civil War (page 3)

Friday, March 15 at 7:00 pm

Charles Lloyd New Quartet and Friends at The Temple of Dendur (page 12)
performance talk bring the kids (see page 21)