MetLiveArts: 2018–19 Season

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What is the sound of an unheard voice? This season we hear from the marginal and the silenced, voices that were quieted by history and circumstance. Our Artist in Residence, the extraordinary Julia Bullock, reconsiders past narratives in performances that feature the lives and words of Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes, and Thornton Dial, alongside others whose stories have been lost.

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2018–19 Artist in Residence

2018–19 Artist in Residence: Julia Bullock

Julia Bullock “This is a musician who delights in making her own rules.”

—New York Magazine Is it possible to provide a voice for stories that have been made silent? That’s a question vocalist, intellectual powerhouse, and MetLiveArts Artist in Residence Julia Bullock will ponder as she crafts a season of thought-provoking and transcendent performances that will bring to light some of the hidden narratives we are living with.

Oliver Beer creates a unique sound installation, Vessel Orchestra, that obliterates the distance of time and geography by amplifying the tones that selected Met objects have been singing since their creation and putting them in dialogue with one another. We also premier site-specific choreography by New York City Ballet dancer Silas Farley; a music theater piece by Cécile McLorin Salvant; a bold performance by the artist Suzanne Bocanegra; and an unprecedented season-long collaboration with the artists of It’s Showtime NYC! from the South Bronx’s Dancing in the Streets.

This “exceptional singer of the new generation” (The New York Times), hailed as “opulent and glorious” by Opera News, adds her voice—both the rich, resonant soprano that’s been garnering raves around the world, and the voice of social consciousness and activism that she considers fundamental to her role as artist—to The Met collection.

History’s Persistent Voice World Premiere Sat Sep 15, 7 pm

Our Ensemble in Residence, Sonnambula, upends tradition with pioneering work at The Met Cloisters, always inspiring in its transporting beauty. Join us at The Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Cloisters, and The Met Breuer. And bring your curiosity.

Limor Tomer General Manager, MetLiveArts

A Dream Deferred: Langston Hughes in Song Sun Dec 2, 3 pm

Julia Bullock sings the words of pioneering mixed-media Black American artist Thornton Dial in a recital featuring traditional slave songs and words penned by Black American artists from the southeastern United States, including the esteemed quilters of Gee’s Bend, Alabama. The texts are set to original compositions by a roster of all-women composers including Tania León, Courtney Bryan, Jessie Montgomery, and Allison Loggins-Hull. This concert is presented in dialogue with the exhibition History Refused to Die: Highlights from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation Gift (on view at The Met Fifth Avenue, May 22– September 23, 2018).

Julia Bullock and Friends

Tickets start at $50 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Tickets start at $50 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Langston Hughes’s poems such as “Harlem,” “Genius Child,” and “Song for a Dark Girl” are set to music in this recital curated and performed by Julia Bullock, who is joined by soprano Nicole Cabell (“sheer sumptuous gorgeousness,” The Mercury News), New York Philharmonic Principal Clarinet Anthony McGill (“trademark brilliance, penetrating sound and rich character,” The New York Times), Jessie Montgomery, violin, the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, as well as pianist/ composers Ricky Ian Gordon and John Musto.

Image: Julia Bullock.

Photo by Kevin Yatarola

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2018–19 Artist in Residence: Julia Bullock

2018–19 Artist in Residence: Julia Bullock

Nativity Reconsidered Fri Dec 21, 5:30 pm Sat Dec 22, 5:30 pm Julia Bullock, soprano Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor American Modern Opera Company (AMOC) Christian Reif, conductor Experience an all-new chamber music version of contemporary master John Adams’s Christmas oratorio, El Niño, arranged for the forces of the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC) and adapted for the intimate setting of The Met Cloisters.

Tickets start at $65 The Fuentidueña Chapel at The Met Cloisters

This page: Anthony Roth Costanzo.

Photo by Steven Laxton Opposite page: Tyshawn Sorey.

Photo by John Rogers

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Perle Noire: Meditations for Joséphine Wed Jan 16, 8 pm Thu Jan 17, 8 pm International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) Julia Bullock, soprano Conceived by Peter Sellars Zack Winokur, director Tyshawn Sorey, composer, percussion, and piano Texts by Claudia Rankine Choreography by Michael Schumacher “One of the most important works of art yet to emerge from the era of Black Lives Matter.” —The New York Times Julia Bullock inhabits the body of a reimagined Joséphine Baker on the steps of The Met’s Great Hall in this darker, more intimate consideration of the life and legacy of the famous singer, activist, and cultural icon. With texts by poet Claudia Rankine and music recomposed by Tyshawn Sorey (both MacArthur Fellows).

El Cimarrón Fri May 10, 7 pm Sat May 11, 7 pm American Modern Opera Company (AMOC) Zack Winokur, director Hans Werner Henze’s El Cimarrón (The Runaway Slave) is a tour-de-force sonic onslaught based on the oral autobiography of Esteban Montejo, an Afro-Cuban slave who escaped bondage on a sugar plantation, survived in the jungle, fought for Cuban independence from Spain, and lived to tell about it all before dying at the age of 113. Henze’s visceral score is a cry for freedom that transcends time and place— and a linchpin in Julia Bullock’s vision for her residency.

Tickets start at $55 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Tickets start at $125 The Great Hall Perle Noire: Meditations on Joséphine was funded through ICE’s First Page commissioning program with lead support from Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting.

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New Commissions and Premieres

New Commissions and Premieres

Ogresse

Honor

Songs from the Spirit

World Premiere Fri Sep 28, 7 pm

World Premiere Sat Oct 27, 7 pm

Written and performed by Cécile McLorin Salvant Arranged and conducted by Darcy James Argue

A Panel Discussion Performance

by Suzanne Bocanegra

World Premiere Fri Mar 8, 2 & 7 pm Sat Mar 9, 12, 2 & 7 pm Sun Mar 10, 11 am, 2 & 4 pm

“I said she’s in ’command of’ the jazz tradition. Better to say she’s in communion with it…. When she scats, it’s not an ego trip but a musical game, where notes and syllables get to shape-shift.”

—The New York Times Magazine “A woman lived in the woods on the outskirts of town. Her skin was chocolate brown. Upon her head she wore a crown of bones.”

—Cécile McLorin Salvant Tickets start at $65 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

“An illuminating theatrical portrait of the mind of an artist at work.”

—The New York Times Visual, installation, and performance artist Suzanne Bocanegra turns the concept of the “panel discussion” upside down in this disorienting and subversive theatrical work. In this world premiere she delves into what she calls her “lifelong obsession” with the colossal Honor, The Met’s largest tapestry, woven in the 16th century.

Tickets start at $35 Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall, Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education

Silas Farley, choreographer and dancer Cassia Farley, Rachel Hutsell, Taylor Stanley, and Claire Kretszchmar, dancers Kelly Griffin, soprano Robert May, tenor Created in collaboration with Ear Hustle from Radiotopia According to The New Yorker, the New York City Ballet (NYCB) dancer and choreographer Silas Farley recently took a walk through The Met galleries “in the hope that the muse—Terpsichore, specifically— might strike.” She did. The result is Songs from the Spirit, a MetLiveArts commission inspired by The Met collection. Farley brings fellow members of NYCB—and the audience—on a journey led by traditional spirituals and new songs created by current inmates at San Quentin State Prison who, through the podcast Ear Hustle, contribute music for the performance, offering a nuanced view of an exiled population, and the irrepressible human drive to create.

Free with Museum admission Gallery 401, The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Assyrian Sculpture Court; Gallery 217, The Astor Chinese Garden Court; Gallery 700, The Charles Engelhard Court

Battle! Hip-Hop In Armor

Oliver Beer: Vessel Orchestra

Fri Oct 12 Fri Nov 9 Fri Jan 11 Fri Feb 8 Museum hours

World Premiere Tue Jun 25–Sun Aug 11, 2019 Museum hours

Dancers from It’s Showtime NYC! The world of hip-hop dance culture collides with the bygone age of chivalry when modern-day b-boys and freestyle dancers meet knights in armor. Discover the unexpected parallels—and see what it’s really like to make some moves in all that chainmail, leather, and metal—in this unrivaled series of thrilling dance battles, commissioned

by MetLiveArts in collaboration with The Met’s Arms and Armor department and the fierce artists of It’s Showtime NYC! from the South Bronx’s Dancing in the Streets urban dance organization.

Free with Museum admission Gallery 371, The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Arms and Armor Court

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Experience art objects in a completely revolutionary way: by hearing them. This unprecedented sound installation by artist Oliver Beer features an “orchestra” of vessels from The Met collection, alongside Beer’s own eccentric and autobiographical objects. The vessels range in origin from ancient Mesopotamia to modern America, each one chosen for the precise frequency in which it resonates—unchanged since the day it was made. Capturing each vessel’s unique sound with a tiny microphone, Beer invites a diverse group of musicians to work with his Vessel Orchestra installation as a pan-historical, pan-cultural musical instrument, bridging geographic and chronological divides.

This page: Suzanne Bocanegra.

Photo by Vincent Tullo for The New York Times

Free with Museum admission The Met Breuer, Floor 5

Opposite page: Cécile McLorin Salvant.

Photo by Mark Fitton

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2018-2019 Ensemble in Residence

2018-2019 Ensemble in Residence: Sonnambula

Spanish Christmas at The Met Cloisters Sun Dec 23, 1 & 3 pm With special guest Esteban La Rotta, lute and guitar Celebrate Christmas with a program of intimate Canciones (popular tunes with poetic texts), joyful Villancicos (songs with rustic themes), and virtuosic instrumental pieces, all drawn from the Cancionero Musical de Palacio, a manuscript found at the Royal Palace of Madrid which exemplifies the Spanish Golden Age of music.

Tickets start at $65 The Fuentidueña Chapel at The Met Cloisters

Leonora Duarte: Converso in Antwerp Sat Feb 2, 7 pm Sonnambula teams up with acclaimed author and photographer Teju Cole in a dynamic performance of music, spoken word, and photo installation that celebrates the work of Leonora Duarte, the only known woman composer of viol music in the 17th century.

Tickets start at $55 The Fuentidueña Chapel at The Met Cloisters

Sonnambula “Filling the galleries of The Met Cloisters with exquisitely presented ancient music will rescue the musical past from the prison of the archive so that it might inspire the future historians among us.”

—Elizabeth Weinfield, Sonnambula Nestled in Upper Manhattan’s verdant parkland, The Met Cloisters is a sublime and richly layered venue suggesting multiple narratives ripe for performative explorations. This season, MetLiveArts celebrates The Met Cloisters with a sitespecific series that upends the idea of the historically-informed performance with an infusion of what the Early Music ensemble Sonnambula calls the historically-informed present.

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Sound and the City: Street Cries from Renaissance London Sat Nov 17, 3 pm “Hot codlings, hot! Ha’ ye any old bellows or trays to mend?” The chaos and cacophony of the busy city inspired some of the most innovative composers in Renaissance London. Hear Orlando Gibbons’s famous “Cries of London”—from the night watchman announcing the 3 o’clock hour to the closing of the market at the end of the day—in the urban oasis of The Met Cloisters.

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Michael Praetorius: Dances from Terpsichore (1612) Sat Jun 1, 3 pm Rarely heard live, Praetorius’s dances from Terpsichore, named for the Greek muse of the dance, display uncommon composition. This landmark program brings together the nation’s leading interpreters of Renaissance repertoire for an evening of unforgettable phantasmagoric splendor.

Tickets start at $55 The Fuentidueña Chapel at The Met Cloisters This page: Teju Cole.

Photo by Christian Anderson, Magnum Photos Opposite page: Sonnamubula.

Photo by Paula Lobo

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In the Galleries

Sight and Sound

“To hear music in the presence of such masterpieces not only brings out the musical in the visual, and vice versa; it creates imaginary communities in which figures from disparate art forms move into the same plane, dancing in the mind’s eye.”

—The New Yorker

The Queen’s Six Sun Feb 24, 1 & 3 pm This captivating male vocal sextet is named in honor of Queen Elizabeth I. Based at Windsor Castle, they sing together every day, for services and both private and state occasions, frequently before members of the royal family. Now you can enjoy the royal treatment as they perform everything from early chant, to vivid Renaissance polyphony, to racy madrigals. “This music is in the blood of these singers” (Gramophone).

Tickets start at $55 The Fuentidueña Chapel at The Met Cloisters

Dido and Aeneas Sat Mar 30, 7 pm The Handel + Haydn Society There couldn’t be a more perfect or powerful setting for Dido and Aeneas—Purcell’s operatic telling of the love story between the Queen of Carthage and the Prince of Troy—than the Temple of Dendur. The Handel + Haydn Society, Boston’s famed period instrument ensemble, sold out their last MetLiveArts appearance and they return now with this gorgeous and beloved score. Heartache never sounded more haunting.

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ModernMedieval Trio of Voices Sat Apr 13, 1 & 3 pm ModernMedieval was created by Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, a former member of the vocal quartet Anonymous 4, with Martha Cluver and Eliza Bagg (from the celebrated ensemble Roomful of Teeth) rounding out the trio. Following their triumphant debut at The Met in 2016, they return with a fresh repertoire of medieval and contemporary works in a program designed specifically for The Met Cloisters.

Tickets start at $55 The Fuentidueña Chapel at The Met Cloisters

Samhāra Revisited Sat Oct 20, 7 pm Sun Oct 21, 3 pm Nrityagram with Chitrasena Dance Company India’s lionized classical dance company Nrityagram returns to The Temple of Dendur, this time in collaboration with Sri Lanka’s equally acclaimed Chitrasena Dance Company. Samhāra brings together brilliant dance traditions with shared ancient roots, accompanied by a live original score. See why The New York Times proclaimed, “The only proper response to dancers this amazing is worship.”

Tickets start at $65 The Temple of Dendur in The Sackler Wing

14th-Century Avant-Garde Sat Nov 3, 1 & 3 pm TENET Vocal Artists “…the effect was all but electric: chaste religious figures seemed on the verge of jumping out of the chiaroscuro shadows and joining the women of TENET, who, in turn, looked ready to step through the frames into the other world.”

—The New Yorker

Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now Three Sundays at 2 pm Conductor and music historian Leon Botstein explores the parallels between orchestral music and the visual arts. First, a discussion accompanied by musical excerpts performed by The Orchestra Now and on-screen artworks. Then, a full performance and audience Q&A. Tickets start at $30; $75 for the series The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium metmuseum.org/sightandsound

Abstraction in Music and Art Sun May 19, 2 pm

This page: Egon Schiele (Austrian, 1890–1918). Standing Nude with Orange Drapery, 1914.

Watercolor, gouache and graphite on paper, 18 3/8 in. × 12 in. (46.7 × 30.5 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982 (1984.433.315ab)

Painters have often been inspired by music as the ultimate abstract art form. Musical abstraction started with the radical modernist Anton Webern, who freed the form from the conventions of late Romanticism.

At the height of the abstract expressionist movement, experimental composer Morton Feldman mirrored the painters and took his inspiration from their art.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera, on view at The Met Breuer, starting November 27, 2018.

Mahler and the Feminine Ideal Sun Sep 30, 2 pm In the early 1900s, artists across all genres were obsessed with the image of the feminine, depicting women as elevated aspirations for redemption and as objects of lust. Mahler was no exception.

Kindertotenlieder evokes the idealization of the family and the reality of his life with his infamous wife, Alma.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Obsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection, on view at The Met Breuer, July 3–October 7, 2018.

Quite literally a blast from the past, the renowned vocal group TENET Vocal Artists considers ars subtilior (the more subtle art)—the experimental music created by a handful of renegade medieval musicians whose work was so shocking and ahead of its time that it would disappear for over half a millennium. This site-specific performance features TENET Vocal Artists with guest musicians from all over the world.

Chopin, Delacroix, and the Romantic Impulse Sun Nov 18, 2 pm Delacroix, a contemporary of Berlioz, was passionate about music. In his later years he became close to Chopin and developed a fascination with Mozart. The romantic impulse embodied in their art can be seen through the prism of two radically different but equally innovative strategies depicting beauty and the sublime.

Tickets start at $55 The Fuentidueña Chapel at The Met Cloisters

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Delacroix, on view at The Met Fifth Avenue, September 17, 2018– January 16, 2019.

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Holidays For the Miracles: A Holiday Celebration Sun Dec 9, 3 pm Young People’s Chorus Francisco Núñez, conductor One season, two miracles, exalted by the angelic voices of the Young People’s Chorus of New York. Each of the eight short movements in Samuel Adler’s The Flames of Freedom represents one of the eight lights of Hanukkah. The work was written for three-part, treble-voice choir to provide a counterpoint to Britten’s Christmas cantata, A Ceremony of Carols.

The two joyous works are juxtaposed in this family-friendly holiday concert.

Tickets start at $65 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Handel and Lang Sat Dec 15, 7 pm The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra Julian Wachner, conductor

The Sound of Stone

Delacroix and Music

Fri, Nov 2, 7 pm

Mon Nov 5, 7pm

Conceived by Kevork Mourad Vache Sharafyan, piano and composition Gevorg Dabaghyan, duduk Zulal, vocals

Program conceived by Brian Zeger Samantha Hankey, mezzo-soprano Brian Zeger, piano

The Sound of Stone refers to Karahunj, “the Armenian Stonehenge.” SyrianArmenian visual artist Kevork Mourad illuminates the journey of the Armenian people from the fifth century onward with a multimedia work featuring his own live drawings and a new composition by the the esteemed Armenian composer and pianist Vache Sharafyan. Inspired by the exhibition Armenia! (on view at The Met Fifth Avenue, September 21, 2018–January 13, 2019).

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Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Delacroix (on view at The Met Fifth Avenue, September 17, 2018–January 16, 2019), this musical evening highlights the creative and personal connection between giants of French romanticism, including Chopin and Berlioz. Pianist Brian Zeger, one of today’s leading collaborative artists, is joined by mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey, hailed for her “lushly distinctive” voice (Opera News), in this program that brings to life the deep friendship and creative synergy uniting these astounding artists.

Wu Man with fellow Silkroad Artists Fri Mar 1, 7 pm The pipa is an ancient Chinese lute and “a beauty to hear in Ms. Wu’s hands” (The New York Times). Pipa virtuoso and composer Wu Man is joined by fellow members of the Silkroad Ensemble, founded by Yo-Yo Ma, for this special performance celebrating the eagerly anticipated reopening of The Met’s renovated André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments, emphasizing musical interactions between peoples.

Christmas on Sugarloaf Mountain: An IrishAppalachian Celebration

This page: New York Baroque Incorporated.

Photo by Brandon Labadie Opposite page: Kevork Mourad (Syrian, b.

1970), Strata, 2017. Acrylic on paper, 5 ft. x 6 ft. x 18 in. Image courtesy of Kevork Mourad.

Sun Dec 16, 2 pm Apollo’s Fire Jeanette Sorrell, conductor Hailed as “one of the pre-eminent period-instrument ensembles” (The Independent, London), Apollo’s Fire is a collection of creative artists, led by the award-winning young harpsichordist and conductor Jeannette Sorrell. In this new program, the beloved troupe is joined by additional singers, dancers, and instrumentalists to celebrate the Celtic roots of an Appalachian Christmas, from the mystical Gregorian chant of old Scotland to folk carols and toe-tapping hymns.

Tickets start at $65 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Nativity Reconsidered See Page 4 for details.

The Grammy-nominated Choir of Trinity Wall Street—“blazing with vigour…a choir from heaven” (The Times, London)— returns to The Met with a stunning double bill. Dixit Dominus (The Lord Said), Handel’s powerful setting of Psalm 110, is paired with David Lang’s Pulitzer Prizewinning The Little Match Girl Passion, a “tender and mysterious” (The New York Times) contemporary choral work based on the classic Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale.

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Sonnambula: Spanish Christmas See Page 9 for details.

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MetSpeaks

MetSpeaks

Thomas Chippendale at The Met Tue Oct 2, 11 am Morrison Heckscher, Curator Emeritus, The American Wing, The Met Join Curator Emeritus Morrison Heckscher for an exploration of the work of Thomas Chippendale on the occasion of his 300th birthday. The unparalleled Met collection, including the original drawings for The Gentleman and Cabinetmaker’s Director (London, 1754), are the springboard for Mr. Heckscher’s reappraisal of “the most famous cabinetmaker of his day.” Presented in conjunction with Chippendale’s Director: The Designs and Legacy of a Furniture Maker on view at The Met Fifth Avenue through January 9, 2019.

Tickets start at $30 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Armenia!

Thu Oct 18, 6:30 pm Helen C. Evans, Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator of Byzantine Art, The Met Armenia! (on view at The Met Fifth Avenue, September 21, 2018–January 13, 2019) is the first major exhibition to explore the importance of Armenians and their remarkable achievements in a global context. During the middle ages, the Armenians played an influential role in encouraging international trade and their connections with neighboring and distant regions resulted in a lasting effect on artistic traditions of the first Christian nation.

Organizing curator Helen C. Evans will trace the expansion of Armenian art and culture from the fourth to the 17th century near Mount Ararat west to newly established towns, monasteries, and kingdoms reaching the Mediterranean.

Tickets start at $30 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium This page: Altar frontal (detail). New Julfa, 1741. Gold, silver, and silk threads on silk. Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin (626). Photo

by Hrair Hawk Khatcherian

From Leonardo to Titian: Renaissance Portraiture in Northern Italy Thu Nov 8, 11 am Andrea Bayer, Jayne Wrightsman Curator, European Paintings, The Met Artists in northern Italy introduced profound innovations to the field of portraiture in the early decades of the 16th century.

They strove to suggest movement and a sense of the sitter’s character in their portraits, and, in Venice, used color and light to enhance their paintings further. Curator Andrea Bayer will survey a panorama of these remarkable works, taking as a point of departure the exhibition Celebrating Tintoretto: Portrait Paintings and Studio Drawings, on view at The Met Fifth Avenue, October 15, 2018–January 27, 2019.

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Masterpieces of European Tapestry—Medieval to Modern

Artist and Engineer

The Making of a Masterpiece

Thu Oct 11, 6:30pm

Four-part series

Carmen C. Bambach, Curator of Italian and Spanish Drawings, The Met Walter Isaacson, author

Kathryn Calley Galitz, art historian and Educator, The Met

Join Walter Isaacson, author of the acclaimed bestsellers Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin, for a discussion of his recent biography of Leonardo da Vinci.

Isaacson is joined in conversation with celebrated da Vinci scholar and curator of drawings and prints at The Met, Carmen C. Bambach. Together they explore the creative practice, roots in science and technology, and diverse passions that made Leonardo da Vinci an incomparable artist and innovator.

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Each talk in this series focuses on a single, iconic painting from The Met collection, variously framed in the context of the artist’s work, its contemporary resonance, and its legacy. Galitz, author of Masterpiece Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, examines a range of works by David, Degas, Manet, and Freud.

Tickets start at $30; $100 for the series The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium David’s Death of Socrates Tue Nov 13, 11 am Manet’s Mademoiselle V . . . in the Costume of an Espada Tue Nov 20, 11 am Degas’s Dance Class Tue Nov 27, 11 am Freud’s Naked Man, Back View Tue Dec 4, 11 am

Three-part series Elizabeth Cleland, Associate Curator, Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Met The dynamism of tapestries spans the centuries. Journey across time through The Met collection’s rich holdings of tapestries with curator Elizabeth Cleland to explore the drama and range of expression of these magnificent, handwoven textiles from the 15th to the 21st centuries.

Tickets start at $30; $75 for the series The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium Medieval to Renaissance: Magic, myths, moralities, and mille-fleurs Thu Oct 11, 11 am Baroque to Rococo: From the Sun King’s grand histories to Boucher’s pastoral idylls Thu Oct 18, 11 am Arts and Crafts to Fiber Arts: William Morris, Anni Albers, and the modern dilemma Thu Oct 25, 11 am

Opposite page: Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883). Mademoiselle V. . . in the Costume of an Espada, 1862. Oil on canvas, 65 x 50 1/4 in. (165.1 x 127.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 (29.100.53)

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Calendar

Calendar

September

October

November

Sat 15

7 pm

GRR

Julia Bullock: History’s Persistent Voice

Fri 28

7 pm

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Cécile McLorin Salvant: Ogresse

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Sun 30

2 pm

GRR

Sight and Sound: Mahler and the Feminine Ideal

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11 am

GRR

Thomas Chippendale at The Met

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Fri 21

5:30 pm

Cloisters

Julia Bullock: Nativity Reconsidered

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Sat 22

5:30 pm

Cloisters

Julia Bullock: Nativity Reconsidered

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Sun 23

1 & 3 pm

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Sonnambula: Spanish Christmas at The Met Cloisters

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Museum Hours Armor

Battle! Hip-Hop In Armor

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8 pm

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Julia Bullock: Perle Noire: Meditations for Joséphine

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8 pm

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Julia Bullock: Perle Noire: Meditations for Joséphine

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Sat 2

7 pm

Cloisters

Sonnambula: Leonora Duarte: Converso in Antwerp

9

Fri 8

Museum Hours Armor

Battle! Hip-Hop In Armor

7

Sun 24

1 & 3 pm

Cloisters

The Queen’s Six

10

Fri 1

7 pm

GRR

Wu Man with fellow Silkroad Artists

12

Fri 8

2 & 7 pm

Multiple

Silas Farley: Songs from the Spirit

6

Sat 9

12, 2 & 7 pm

Multiple

Silas Farley: Songs from the Spirit

6

Sun 10

11 am, 2 & 4 pm

Multiple

Silas Farley: Songs from the Spirit

6

Sat 30

7 pm

Temple

Handel + Haydn Society: Dido and Aeneas

10

April

Sat 13

1 & 3 pm

Cloisters

ModernMedieval Trio of Voices

10

May

Fri 10

7 pm

GRR

Julia Bullock: El Cimarrón

4

Sat 11

7 pm

GRR

Julia Bullock: El Cimarrón

4

Sun 19

2 pm

GRR

Sight and Sound: Abstraction in Music and Art

11

Sat 1

3 pm

Cloisters

Sonnambula: Dances from Terpsichore (1612)

9

June 25–August 11

Museum Hours Breuer

Oliver Beer: Vessel Orchestra

7

page 3

Thu 11

11 am

GRR

Masterpieces of European Tapestry: Medieval to Renaissance

Thu 11

6:30 pm

GRR

Artist and Engineer

Fri 12

Museum Hours Armor

Battle! Hip-Hop In Armor

Thu 18

11 am

GRR

Masterpieces of European Tapestry: Baroque to Rococo

15

Thu 18

6:30 pm

GRR

Armenia!

14

Sat 20

7 pm

Temple

Samhāra Revisited

10

Sun 21

3 pm

Temple

Samhāra Revisited

10

Thu 25

11 am

GRR

Masterpieces of European Tapestry: Arts and Crafts to Fiber Arts

15

Sat 27

7 pm

BJS

Suzanne Bocanegra: Honor

6

Fri 2

7 pm

GRR

The Sound of Stone

12

Sat 3

1 & 3 pm

Cloisters

TENET Vocal Artists: 14th-Century Avant-Garde

10

Mon 5

7 pm

GRR

Delacroix and Music

12

Thu 8

11 am

GRR

From Leonardo to Titian: Renaissance Portraiture in Northern Italy

15

Fri 9

Museum Hours Armor

Battle! Hip-Hop In Armor

Tue 13

11 am

GRR

The Making of a Masterpiece: David’s Death of Socrates

Sat 17

3 pm

Cloisters

Sonnambula: Sound and the City

8

Sun 18

2 pm

GRR

Sight and Sound: Chopin, Delacroix, and the Romantic Impulse

11

Tue 20

11 am

GRR

The Making of a Masterpiece: Manet’s Mademoiselle V . . . in the Costume of an Espada

15

Tue 27

11 am

GRR

The Making of a Masterpiece: Degas’s Dance Class

15

7

January

February

March

7 15

June

Performance Talk

December

Sun 2

3 pm

GRR

Julia Bullock: A Dream Deferred

Tue 4

11 am

GRR

The Making of a Masterpiece: Freud’s Naked Man, Back View

15

Sun 9

3 pm

GRR

Young People’s Chorus: For the Miracles

13

Sat 15

7 pm

GRR

The Choir of Trinity Wall Street: Handel and Lang

13

Sun 16

2 pm

GRR

Apollo's Fire: Christmas on Sugarloaf Mountain

13

MetLiveArts 2018-19 Season

16

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Additional major supporters: Armenian General Benevolent Union Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundation Chester Dale Fund Emilie and Michael Corey Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art The Isaacson-Draper Foundation The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels

Foundation, Inc. Friends of MetLiveArts: Firebirds The Arthur Gillender Fund The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation Art Jameel Fund Janet and Howard Kagan Lavori Sterling Foundation, Inc. William S. Lieberman Fund Helen Little Tom and Leslie Maheras New York State Council on the Arts Cyril F. and Marie O’Neil Foundation Kelly and Gerry Pasciucco Samuel White Patterson Lecture Fund The Jerome Robbins Foundation Beatrice Santo Domingo The Evelyn Sharp Foundation The C.F. Roe Slade Foundation The Harold and Mimi Steinberg

Charitable Trust Doris & Stanley Tananbaum Foundation

in memory of Doris Tananbaum Nicki and Harold Tanner Ann G. Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Douglas Dockery Thomas Clara Lloyd-Smith Weber Fund Ann Ziff Anonymous (3)

Obsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection July 3–October 7, 2018 The exhibition is made possible by the Barrie A. and Deedee Wigmore Foundation.

Armenia!

September 21, 2018–January 13, 2019 The exhibition is made possible in part by the Michel David-Weill Fund, The Giorgi Family Foundation, the Karagheusian Foundation, The Nazar and Artemis Nazarian Family, the Ruddock Foundation for the Arts, The Strauch Kulhanjian Family and The Paros Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Related Education and MetLiveArts programs are made possible by the Armenian General Benevolent Union.

Delacroix September 17, 2018– January 16, 2019 The exhibition is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Musée du Louvre.

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