December Exhibits

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000-5th Ave NYC

The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Drawings, prints and paintings by renowned artists from the Dutch
Renaissance such as Rembrandt, Cuyp, Hals, and Vermeer. Hundreds of
masterpieces on exhibit until January 6, 2008.

The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti’s
These doors are masterpieces known for their beautifully narrated reliefs of biblical subjects.After more than 25 years, the conservation of Lorenzo Ghiberti’s doors for the Baptistery in Florence—called the Gates of Paradise—now in the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, is nearing completion. This exhibition will provide the American public with an unprecedented opportunity to see three of the doors’ famous narrative reliefs, with their masterful retelling of Old Testament subjects, as well as four figural sections from their opulent surrounding frames, before they are permanently installed in the museum. The panels and elements from the doorframe—two of its supremely elegant figures of prophets and two decorative heads set in roundels—represent the sculptor’s intense involvement in this project, a seminal monument of the Italian Renaissance, during the 27 years (1425–1452) of its creation.
October 30, 2007–January 13, 2008


The Jewish Museum, 1109-5th Ave NYC

Exhibit: Camille Pissarro: Impressions of City and Country
Drawings, paintings and sketches by preeminent French Impressionist
Camille Pissaro, on exhibit until February 3, 2008. These works of art
Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) was one of the pre-eminent French Impressionists and the only artist who showed his work in all eight of the Impressionist exhibitions (1874–1886). This exhibition brings together more than 50 paintings and works on paper in New York area public and private collections that explore the motifs Pissarro found in the rural and urban locales where he traveled and lived. Growing up in the Caribbean in a Sephardic Jewish family, Pissarro later became interested in anarchism and the plight of the poor. This exhibition examines the social ideologies and aesthetic theories that concerned Pissarro during his long career, through themes such as work and leisure, retreat from city life, and transitions in time and place, as seen in his Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist works.

September 16, 2007 - February 03, 2008, The Jewish Museum, 1109 5th Ave., New York City