(by Alessandra Baldini) (ANSA) – NEW YORK, NOV 22 – What do Disney cartoons and French decorative arts have in common? More than one might imagine, as explained by an exhibition on this theme that will open at the Metropolitan in New York on December 10: one of the many offers to visitors in the Big Apple since November 8, the United States reopened the doors to vaccinated tourists from abroad.
You have to book the ticket online, bring the vaccine certificate with you and wear the mask for the entire time of the visit, but “the city is coming back to life”, said the president of the Met, Dan Weiss, presenting the press. program for the next few months. Even if, data in hand, the Met is still far from the seven million visitors in a year counted in 2019, the museum is satisfied with the 2-4 million admissions in 2021 and continues to “churn out experiences”, Weiss said. . Including, not to be missed, the new “period room” created by Hannah Bealcher, screenwriter of “Black Panther”, who was inspired by Afrofuturism, an artistic movement that “projects people of African descent into the future” imagining that Seneca Village, an Afro-American community uprooted in the mid-nineteenth century to make way for Central Park, continues to live in the present and in a prosperous future. The Met is not the only museum with important proposals for the days of the holidays: at the Whitney the crowded retrospective “Mind, Mirror” on Jasper Johns pushes to add a trip to Philadelphia where, at the art museum of the city, The “twin” exhibition is in progress until 13 February: both mirror 65 years of art. Johns, who is 91, continues to be creative. The discovery at MoMA will be Sophie Tauber-Arp, 400 works over a span of 40 years between applied arts, murals, design, sculptures by an artist who died in 1943 who was also a Dada dancer and magazine editor. The Guggenheim dedicates its roundabout to Vasily Kandinsky with a backward view from recent years in France to its beginnings in Munich, but also presents the first North American retrospective of the British Turner Gillian Wearing prize (“Wearing Masks”). Finally, a small jewel at the Jewish Museum: “The Hare with the eyes of Amber” remains open until May, the reconstruction of the history of the Ephrussi family celebrated in the 2010 memoir by the ceramist and writer Edmund de Waal. The exhibition is signed by Elizabeth Diller, the “starchitect” of the High Line in collaboration with de Waal, and reconstructs the homes of the Ephrussi, focusing on the collection of netsuke, the tiny Japanese sculptures of the Edo era saved by a maid who hid in a mattress during World War II and returned to the family after the defeat of Nazism. (HANDLE).
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