![]() Featuring more than 50 outstanding works-including percussion, wind, and string instruments and forms unique to the Pacific-the exhibition will explore not only the diverse forms of Oceanic musical instruments but also the many different roles they play, or played, in Pacific cultures, from announcing the onset of war, to embodying the voices of supernatural beings or softly enticing a lover. Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania, the first exhibition devoted to the subject ever mounted by an art museum, will open at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on November 17. Exhibition Featuring Musical Instruments of Pacific Islands Goes on View at Metropolitan Museum. ![]() To confirm scheduling and dates, call the Communications Department at (212) 570-3951.ĬONTACT NUMBER FOR USE IN TEXT IS (212) 535-7710. Featuring 48 works from public and private collections-including many that have rarely or never been exhibited before- Playing with Pictures will provide a fascinating window into the creative possibilities of photography in the 19th century.ĮDITORS PLEASE NOTE: Information provided below is subject to change. With subjects as varied as new theories of evolution, the changing role of photography, and the strict conventions of aristocratic society, the photocollages frequently debunked stuffy Victorian clichés with surreal, subversive, and funny images. Whimsical and fantastical Victorian photocollages, created using a combination of watercolor drawings and cut-and-pasted photographs, reveal the educated minds as well as accomplished hands of their makers. Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art February 2 – May 9, 2010, is the first exhibition to comprehensively examine this little-known phenomenon. ![]() In the 1860s and 1870s, long before the embrace of collage techniques by avant-garde artists of the early 20th century, aristocratic Victorian women were experimenting with photocollage.
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