The Met Cloisters · Fort Tryon Park, Washington Heights, Upper Manhattan
Creatures of Myth and Imagination: Europe and the Americas
התערוכה הסתיימה.
Set in the medieval galleries of The Met Cloisters, this exhibition gathers over 50 works from Europe and the ancient Americas (500 to 1500 CE) exploring myth, hybrid creatures and the imagination.
אתר המוזיאוןעוד בניו יורק
Near the entrance stands a seven-foot ceramic man with the claws, ears and mouth of a bat: Tzinacantecuhtli, the Zapotec "bat lord", lent by Mexico City's Museo del Templo Mayor and never shown in New York before. Mario Naves, reviewing for the New York Sun, called him "worth a trip to Upper Manhattan". On his first New York trip, he went further uptown than plenty of Brooklynites ever get.
Around him are about 50 more hybrids made between 500 and 1500 CE on both sides of the Atlantic, the first time art of the ancient Americas has been shown at the Cloisters. You go from Spanish frescoes of dragons and lions to gold crocodile pendants from Panama and Colombia, across Galleries 001, 010 and 016.
The catch, per Naves: most of the American art sits in a Glass Gallery "down-the-back-stairwell", and the whole thing is "less a full meal than an amuse-bouche". It's free with Museum admission and closes 18 October; the Cloisters is shut on Wednesdays.
לא לפספס
Tzinacantecuhtli, the bat lord
Look for the seven-foot ceramic figure by the entrance: a thickset man in jewelry, bells and a loincloth, with three claws, a bat's face and his right arm missing.
The Arlanza dragon
A monumental fresco from the Spanish monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza puts a ferocious dragon front and centre in the first gallery.
The Tairona gold pendant
A small gold figure from northern Colombia stands with hands on hips, a crocodile-like head and an enormous headdress, made to show off its wearer's power.
Quetzalcoatl making a person
On a carved conch-shell pendant, the feathered serpent has a human torso, hands and legs emerging from its body, mid-creation.
The reversible Lombard brooch
Turn your head: one way up this bow brooch is a human figure, the other way it becomes a four-legged beast.
מתאים ל
- מקומיים שכבר ראו הכול
- צלילה לעומק
לוותר אם
You'd trek uptown for this show alone: Naves called it a sampler rather than a full meal.
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- Anna Maria Maiolino. ANNA – והקו האינסופי (Anna Maria Maiolino. ANNA—And the Infinite Line)Courtesy of Hauser & Wirth
- Luminous ColorCourtesy of The Morgan Library & Museum
- Common SenseCourtesy of Brooklyn Museum
- The Met CloistersChristopher Down / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0