New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art says it’s planning a major exhibition of works by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) subsequent 12 months.
Taking place 170 years after the Dutch artist’s delivery, the show will deal with the cypresses in his work, stated Max Hollein, the director of the museum in Manhattan’s Central Park. These cypresses are “presumably essentially the most well-known timber in the historical past of artwork,” Hollein stated.
Among different issues, the show deliberate for May 2023 will convey collectively two of the painter’s most well-known cypress work for the primary time since they have been accomplished: Starry Night from New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Wheat Field With Cypresses, which hangs on the Met and isn’t allowed to go away the museum because of donor stipulations.
Overall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is in good condition, stated Met chief Daniel Weiss. Visitor numbers at the moment are about 60 to 75% of pre-pandemic numbers, he stated.
The Friday after the Thanksgiving vacation in November was the busiest day for the reason that pandemic, with about 21,000 guests, the museum stated. During the pandemic, the Metropolitan Museum of Art was closed for about half a 12 months. – dpa
