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The MeT RefRaMed: Paul d. MilleR aka dJ SPooky in ReSidencean 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.

DJ Spooky © Stephanie Berger

The Met Reframed is made possible by Marianna Sackler.

iPad Mixing Piecean audience participation event using dJ Spooky’s iPad app. download the free app and bring your device.

Friday, June 21 at 9:30pm: $30The Great Hall

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

Saturday, March 23 at 7:00pm: $30Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

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art and the environmentJoin 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 Of Water and Ice, this program offers an opportunity to learn about the permanent collection through discussions and presentations.

Sunday, March 24 at 2:00pmGrace Rainey Rogers AuditoriumFree with Museum admission. Reservations and tickets are not required.

DJ Spooky and Bill McKibben in Conversation: Climate Changefollowing up on dJ Spooky’s 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: $25Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

ART & THE ENVIRONMENT MeT Salon SerieS

The art and Science Dating gameHow Artists and Scientists Find Each Other... and What Happens Next? DJ Spooky, Artist in Residence

See page 15.

Wednesday, March 27 at 6:00pm: $27Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall

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Photo of Nauru © DJ Spooky

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DJ Spooky: The Nauru Elegiesa 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.

Friday, January 18 at 7:00pm: $30Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

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DJ Spooky in the oceanic galleriesJoin 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.

Saturday, January 19 at 4:00pm

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

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in/Visible: The economic and environmental plights of an island nationSee page 14.

Wednesday, January 23 at 6:00pm: $27Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall

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photography and the american Civil WarWorld premiere of a music/video work using images from the Met’s spring civil War photography exhibition.

Friday, May 10 at 7:00pm: $30Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

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Documenting WarDJ Spooky, Artist in ResidenceSusan Meiselas, PhotographerJeff l. rosenheim, Curator in Charge, Department of PhotographsSee page 15.Tuesday, May 21 at 6:00pm: $27Bonnie 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.

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fRaMinG BeeThoven: conceRTS and conveRSaTionSengland’s 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

“There’s 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 Beethoven’s 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

Friday, February 22, at 7:30pm

opus 18, no. 5; opus 135; opus 59, no. 2

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 7:30pm.

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Endellion String Quartet © Eric Richmond

Edmund Morris © Leslie Lillien Levy

Antoine-Émile Bourdelle, (French 1861–1929), 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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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 Beethoven’s contemporaries, including delacroix and friedrich, setting the stage for the Romantic revolution.

Friday, February 15 at 6:00pm: $25Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

The roar That lies on the other Side of Silenceedmund 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 Beethoven’s most exquisite (or sometimes

frightening) sound effects may have arisen from his deafness.

Tuesday, February 19 at 6:00pm: $25Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

This lecture will be Sign Language interpreted.

Beethoven: The Sights and Sounds of the romantic SublimeMarsha 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 shifting definitions of artistic and national identity.

Friday, February 22 at 6:00pm: $25Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

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Abraham Lincoln, February 9, 1864, Anthony Berger (active 1860’s), Brady & Co, (American, active 1840-1880’s), Imperial albumen print from wet collodion-on-glass plate negative, 16 1/8 x 9 1/2. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005 (2005.100.1116)

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 deacon’s 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: “it’s impossible to think about the land without the history of it, and that’s 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 Met’s american Wing. This once-in-a-lifetime performance, combining audience-triggered sound and light, video projection with live and electronic sounds, explores dan’s commitment to civic responsibility through the lens of innovative multimedia performance.

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

lincoln Seen and heardStephen 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, ford’s 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 Museum’s harold holzer narrates and illustrates with photographs of lincoln.

Tuesday, February 12 at 6:00pm: $30Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Dan Deacon © Shawn Brackbill

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Seven WordsA music-video work featuring original live-mixed video installation by Ofri Cnaanihaydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross performed by the Salzburg Chamber Soloistslavard Skou larsen, DirectorWith original live video installation by ofri Cnaani

When haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ On the Cross was first performed during the Good friday service at the Spanish cádiz 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 larsen’s 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 Metropolitan’s prints and drawings collections as source material for a nuanced, metaphorical, universal, and non-literal interpretation of haydn’s work. The interaction between sound, word and image underscores a dialogue that is both historical and contemporary.

Friday, March 22 at 7:00pm: $45Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium 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, 1606–1669), 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 acTionThe 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 york’s dynamic young

Salomé Chamber orchestra and guest artists.

Saturday, February 2 at 7:00pm The Eight Seasons Salomé co-founders Sean avram carpenter and david aaron carpenter are the soloists in astor Piazzolla’s Four Seasons and vivaldi’s Four Seasons.

Friday, april 12 at 7:00pm The Dark Arts of the Viola Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola, and String orchestra, k. 364; lera auerbach’s Sogno di Stabat Mater for violin, viola, vibraphone and orchestra (2008); and Paganini’s 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 Gesù of 1731).

Saturday, May 4 at 7:00pm The Virtuosic Violin Works by Paganini, Saint-Saëns, kreisler, and Sarasate will be performed by guest violinists Philippe Quint and chee-yun, with david aaron carpenter, viola.

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Giuseppe Guarneri “del Gesù” (1698–1744)“Baltic” Violin, Cremona, 1731Two-piece spruce top, one-piece maple backBody length: 35.20 cm (13.9 in.)Lent by the Family of Sau-Wing Lam

Sau-Wing Lam with a Violin Photo Credit: The Family of Sau-Wing Lam

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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.

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CONTACT!The new york philharmonic’s new Music Series at the Met

“…must-hear adventures with provocative, enticing contemporary music.”—The new york Times

The new york Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Museum present the fourth season of CONTACT!, the Philharmonic’s acclaimed new music series curated by Maestro alan Gilbert, and featuring world premieres, uS premieres and new york Philharmonic-commissioned works.

alan gilbert, conductorliang Wang, oboe

unsuk chin: Gougalon, uS premierePoul Ruders: oboe concerto, uS premiereanders hillborg: Vaporized Tivoli,

new york premiereyann Robin: Backdraft, uS premiere, new

york Philharmonic co-commission with the fundação casa da Música, Portugal

Friday, april 5 at 7:00pm: $20Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

This series is made possible by the Xerox Foundation.

Metropolitan Museum artists in Concert 10th anniversary Season

“...the most consistently satisfying chamber-music series in New York” —The new york Times

edward arron, artistic director

Friday, January 11 at 7:00pm

Boccherini: String Triokurtag: Jelék for Solo viola, opus 5dvorák: Piano Quartet in d Major, opus 23

Friday, March 29 at 7:00pm

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, opus 127

Beethoven: Piano Quartet in e flat Major, opus 16

Friday, June 7 at 7:00pm

Biber: Passacaglia in G Minor for Solo violinBach: Goldberg Variations, BWv 988, arranged

for String Trio by dmitri Sitkovetsky

Single tickets: $35Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

These concerts are generously supported by the Brodsky Family Foundation.

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Metropolitan Museum Artists © Rahav Segev

Alan Gilbert © Chris Lee

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PunkPerformances celebrating the exhibition Punk: chaos to couturePresented in collaboration with Wordless Music

liars in The Temple of DendurBreaking 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 can’t be separated from the visuals that typically accompany each album — it’s 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 7:00pm: $25Presented in The Temple of Dendur in The Sackler Wing • Unreserved seating

Liars © Zen Sekizawa

So Percussion © LiveWellPhoto

Man Forever © Joshua Bright

So percussion & Man Foreveran evening of drumming by the celebrated ensemble So Percussion and composer/percussionist John colpitts’s experimental drum project Man forever. coined new york city’s “experimental powerhouse” by The Village Voice, So percussion — america’s 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 Brooklyn-based 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 7:00pm: $25Grace 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 Condé Nast.

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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 iraq’s 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 Shamma’s own creation, which he calls arab chamber Music.

Saturday, March 9 at 7:00pm: $25Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Zaha hadidin conversation with Sheila Canby, Patti Cadby Birch Curator in Charge of the Museum’s Department of Islamic Art, and Joseph giovannini, architectone 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: $35Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

iRaQ noW!A festival of contemporary Iraqi culturePresented in collaboration with Alwan for the Arts

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

Zaha Hadid © Simone Cecchetti

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Charles lloyd new Quartet and Friends at The Temple of Dendurwith 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, tarogatoMaria 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: $50Presented in The Temple of Dendur in The Sackler Wing • Unreserved seating

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MaSTeRS aT The MeTa series celebrating iconic composers, performers, and soloists.

paco peña Flamenco Dance Company“A genuine virtuoso, capable of dazzling an audience with technical abilities beyond the frets of mortal man.” —new york Times

Paco Peña, 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 Vivo—a journey into the heart of andalucía packed with all the intensity, depth, and raw energy that have become the maestro’s trademark. The stellar cast includes:rafael Montilla, paco arriaga: guitarists; José Ángel Carmona, Cristina pareja: vocalists;Julio Cesar alcocer: percussionist; ramón Martinez, Charo espino, Ángel Muñoz: dancers

Saturday, January 19 at 7:00pm: $60Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Paco Peña Flamenco Dance Company is co-presented by the World Music Institute.

Charles Lloyd © D. Darr

Paco Peña © Cesar Alcocer

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Jordi SavallJordi 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 the viola da gamba’s prominence on stage and for rediscovering forgotten musical gems. Savall returns to the Met for a performance of Ludi Musici: An Exploration of the Creation of the Modern Orchestra. This performance will take place in the unique vélez 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 7:00pm: $90Presented in the Vélez Blanco Patio • Unreserved seating

This program is developed in collaboration with the Juilliard School’s Historical Performance Department.

Jordi Savall © Vico Chamla

Judy Collins © James Vesey

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one of folk music’s beloved icons performs a love-themed concert in celebration of valentine’s day.

Thursday, February 14 at 7:00pm: $65Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

This concert is supported by the estate of Kathryn Walter Stein.

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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 café 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.

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MeT Salon SeRieSEngage 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 nationDJ Spooky, Artist in ResidenceMichael gerrard, Professor and Director, Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law Schoollisa Sachs, Director, Vale Columbia Centerlane greene, moderator The 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 6:00pm: $27Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall

This event is made possible by Marianna Sackler.

Matisse: in Search of True paintingrebecca rabinow, Curator, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art

henri Matisse (1869–1954) 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 6:00pm: $27Bonnie 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, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris.

The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

Henri Matisse (French 1869–1954), 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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Georgia O’Keeffe, (American 1887-1986), Ranchos Church, 1930, oil on canvas, 24 x 36 in. (61 x 91.4 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1961 (61.258).

The art and Science Dating gameHow 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 6:00pm: $27Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall

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 o’Keeffe: new Mexico/new Subjectslisa Messinger, Associate Curator, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art

See the american Southwest through the eyes of painter Georgia o’keeffe 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 6:00pm: $27Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall

Documenting WarDJ Spooky, Artist in ResidenceSusan Meiselas, PhotographerJeff 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 6:00pm: $27Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture HallThis event is in conjunction with Photography and the American Civil War on view from April 2–September 2, 2013. The exhibition is made possible by The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation.

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PhoToGRaPhinG WaRPerformances and Conversations in conjunction with the exhibition Photography and the american civil War

geraldine Brooks and Tony horwitz: a Civil War DialogueModerator: Bill goldstein, book critic of NBC’s 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 history—with different aims, styles, concerns and conclusions.

Wednesday, april 10 at 6:00pm: $25Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Documenting War Today: Sebastian JungerSebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm and War, is one of america’s 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 afghanistan’s korengal valley. Mr. Junger will talk about documenting and photographing today’s 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 6:00pm: $25Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Tony Horwitz © Randi Baird

Geraldine Brooks © Randi Baird

Sebastian Junger © Tim Hetherington

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.

photography and the american Civil WarWorld premiere of a music/video work using images from the Met’s spring civil War photography exhibition.

Friday, May 10 at 7:00pm: $30Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

MeT Salon SerieSDocumenting WarDJ Spooky, Artist in ResidenceSusan Meiselas, PhotographerJeff l. rosenheim, Curator in Charge, Department of PhotographsSee page 15.Tuesday, May 21 at 6:00pm: $27Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall

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african art, new york and the avant-gardenell irvin painter, Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, Princeton UniversitySarah lewis, faculty, Yale University School of Artintroduced 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 art’s arrival in new york and its impact on Modernism in the united States.

Tuesday, March 19 at 6:00pm: $25Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

This event is in conjunction with the exhibition African Art, New York, and the 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 Vinciexplore the life and process of leonardo da vinci and gain insights into his practice and method.

March 6: leonardo da Vinci: Singular and pluralluke 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 london’s national Gallery) explores artistic production, collaboration and delegation, and will track leonardo’s personal journey from a solitary artist to a collaborator working with pupils, assistants and peers, and back.

March 13: rethinking leonardo in his old ageCarmen 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 it’s sometimes fashionable to consider an artist’s 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 Met’s seminal 2003 exhibition Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman) examines leonardo’s 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 leonardo’s old age is the unfinished dimension of his thought and production.

2 Wednesday at 6:00pm: $40Single tickets: $25Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

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

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.

Leonardo da Vinci (Italian 1452–1519), 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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Tulips Beyond holland: inspirations from Flowers in islamic art

A Lecture Demonstration

remco Van Vliet, 3rd generation Dutch Master Floristnavina 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.

Wednesday, May 15 at 2:30pm

Single tickets: $30premium Seating (first 4 rows): $45Mezzanine Seating: $25discounts available for groups of 15 or more. Please call 212-570-3949.Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Dish Depicting Two Birds Among Flowering Plants, Dish, (Turkey, Iznik ca. 1575–90), 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 Dimand’s curatorship, 1933–1959, 1959 (59.69.1)

From Canvas to Costume: painting at the intersection of Theater and FilmTim gunn and a stellar panel of today’s 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 6:00pm: $35Grace Rainey Rogers AuditoriumPhoto of Gina Breedlove as Sarabi. Photo by Per Breiehagen © Disney

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glittering images: an evening with Camille pagliain 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 don’t realize.”

Wednesday, May 22 at 6:00pm: $30Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

(left) Service, Coffee and Tea (Déjeuner Chinois Reticulé), 1855–61. 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, 1870–1956), 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)

plain or Fancy, restraint and exuberance: a Conversation about TasteWayne Koestenbaum, author, The Queen’s Throat, humiliationluke Syson, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Curator in Charge, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

The Metropolitan Museum of art’s exhibition Plain or Fancy: Restraint and Exuberance in the Decorative Arts culls highlights from the Met’s 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 today’s 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?

Wednesday, May 15 at 6:00pm: $25Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

This event is in conjunction with the exhibition Plain or Fancy? Restraint and Exuberance in the Decorative Arts on view from February 26–August 18, 2013

From la Vie Moderne to la Belle epoque Art and Society in Paris from 1853-1914Jerrilynn Dodds, Dean, Sarah Lawrence College

The period between the 1850’s 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 lifeMarch 8 from degas to lautrec: The city and the dark Side of café Society

2 Fridays at 6:00pm: $55Single tickets: $30Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

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Giulio Cesare: Met Meets Metin anticipation of the Metropolitan opera’s new production of handel’s 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 caesar’s 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 Met’s new production, will perform an excerpt from the opera.

Thursday, March 28 at 6:00pm: $25Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Giulio Cesare © Robert Kusel

not only photoshop: Manipulating the “news,” and how to prevent itMargaret 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 today’s 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 6:00pm: $25Grace 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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date day time event page

january

Jan 11 Fri 7:00 pm Metropolitan Museum Artists 9

Jan 18 Fri 7:00 pm DJ Spooky: The Nauru Elegies 3

Jan 19 Sat 4:00 pm Gallery Talk: DJ Spooky in the Oceanic Galleries 3

Sat 7:00 pm Masters at the Met: Paco Peña Flamenco Dance Company 12

Jan 23 Wed 6:00 pm Met Salon Series: DJ Spooky (Gerrard/Sachs/Greene) 14

Jan 25 Fri 7:00 pm Masters at the Met: Jordi Savall 13

feBruary

Feb 2 Sat 7:00 pm Sau-Wing Lam Collection in Action: Eight Seasons 8

Feb 12 Tue 6:00 pm Lincoln Seen and Heard 6

Feb 13 Wed 6:00 pm Met Salon Series: Matisse: In Search of True Painting (Rabinow) 14

Feb 14 Thu 7:00 pm Masters at the Met: Judy Collins 13

Feb 15 Fri 6:00 pm Framing Beethoven (Galitz) 5

7:30 pm The Endellion String Quartet: Beethoven String Quartets 4

Feb 16 Sat 7:00 pm The Endellion String Quartet: Beethoven String Quartets 4

Feb 17 Sun 2:00 pm The Endellion String Quartet: Beethoven String Quartets 4

Feb 19 Tue 6:00 pm Framing Beethoven (Morris) 5

Feb 22 Fri 6:00 pm Framing Beethoven (Morton) 5

7:30 pm The Endellion String Quartet: Beethoven String Quartets 4

Feb 23 Sat 7:00 pm The Endellion String Quartet: Beethoven String Quartets 4

Feb 24 Sun 2:00 pm The Endellion String Quartet: Beethoven String Quartets 4

march

March 1 Fri 6:00 pm From La Vie Moderne to La Belle Epoque (Dodds) 19

March 6 Wed 6:00 pm Leonardo da Vinci (Syson) 17

March 8 Fri 6:00 pm From La Vie Moderne to La Belle Epoque (Dodds) 19

March 9 Sat 7:00 pm Iraq Now!: Naseer Shamma and Al-Oyoun Ensemble 11

March 13 Wed 6:00 pm Leonardo da Vinci (Bambach) 17

March 14 Thu 6:00 pm Iraq Now!: Zaha Hadid 11

March 15 Fri 7:00 pm Masters at the Met: Charles Lloyd New Quartet and Friends 12

March 19 Tue 6:00 pm African Art, New York and the Avant-Garde (Painter/Lewis/Biro) 17

March 22 Fri 7:00 pm Seven Words 7

March 23 Sat 7:00 pm DJ Spooky: Of Water and Ice 2

March 24 Sun 2:00 pm DJ Spooky: Art and the Environment 2

March 27 Wed 6:00 pm Met Salon Series: The Art and Science Dating Game (DJ Spooky) 15

March 28 Thu 6:00 pm Giulio Cesare: Met Meets Met (Lightfoot/et al) 20

March 29 Fri 7:00 pm Metropolitan Museum Artists 9

Met MuseuM Presents

performance talk bring the kids (see page 21)

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april

April 5 Fri 7:00 pm CONTACT! New York Philharmonic 9

April 10 Wed 6:00 pm Geraldine Brooks and Tony Horwitz: A Civil War Dialogue 16

April 11 Thu 6:00 pm Documenting War Today: Sebastian Junger 16

April 12 Fri 7:00 pm Sau-Wing Lam Collection in Action: The Dark Arts of the Viola 8

April 23 Tue 6:00 pm Not Only Photoshop: Manipulating the “News” (Sullivan) 20

April 24 Wed 6:00 pm From Canvas to Costume (Gunn/Bryant/Taymor/Zuber) 18

April 27 Sat 8:00 pm Dan Deacon in The Charles Engelhard Court 6

may

May 4 Sat 7:00 pm Sau-Wing Lam Collection in Action: The Virtuosic Violin 8

May 8 Wed 6:00 pm Met Salon Series: Georgia O’Keeffe (Messinger) 15

May 9 Thu 6:00 pm DJ Spooky and Bill McKibben in Conversation: Climate Change 2

May 10 Fri 7:00 pm DJ Spooky: Photography and the American Civil War 3

May 15 Wed 2:30 pm Tulips Beyond Holland (Van Vliet/Haidar) 18

6:00 pm Plain or Fancy, Restraint and Exuberance (Koestenbaum/Syson) 19

May 18 Sat 7:00 pm Liars in The Temple of Dendur 10

May 21 Tue 6:00 pm Met Salon Series: Documenting War (DJ Spooky/Meiselas/Rosenheim) 15

May 22 Wed 6:00 pm Glittering Images: An Evening with Camille Paglia 19

june

June 7 Fri 7:00 pm Metropolitan Museum Artists 9

June 8 Sat 7:00 pm So Percussion & Man Forever 10

June 21 Fri 9:30 pm DJ Spooky: iPad Mixing Piece 2

Spring 2013 SeaSon

performance talk bring the kids (see page 21)

live streaming from the MetCan’t be here in person? Visit metmuseum.org/livestream for a live web stream of these events.

Friday, January 18 at 7:00pm

dJ Spooky: The Nauru Elegies (page 3)

Thursday, February 14 at 7:00pm

Judy collins (page 13)

Saturday, March 9 at 7:00pm

iraq now! naseer Shamma and al-oyoun ensemble (page 11)

Friday, March 15 at 7:00pm

charles lloyd new Quartet and friends at The Temple of dendur (page 12)

Friday, March 22 at 7:00pm Seven Words (page 7)

Saturday, March 23 at 7:00pm dJ Spooky: Of Water and Ice (page 2)

Friday, May 10 at 7:00pm

dJ Spooky: Civil War (page 3)