(by Alessandra Baldini) (ANSA) - NEW YORK, NOV 22 - What do Disney cartoons and French decorative arts have in common?
More than one can 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 to the Big Apple since November 8, the United States reopened its doors to vaccinated tourists from from abroad.
You have to book the ticket online, bring the vaccine certificate with you and wear the mask for the whole time of the visit, but "the city is coming back to life", said the president of the Met, Dan Weiss, presenting the program for the next months to the press. . Although, data in hand, the Mete '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 the Seneca Village , a communityAfrican-American uprooted from the 19th century to make way for Central Park, you continue to live in the present and in a prosperous future. The Met is not the only museum with important proposals for festive days: at the Whitney the crowded retrospective "Mind, Mirror" on Jasper Johns pushes to add a transfer to Philadelphia where, at the city's art museum, it is The "twin" exhibition runs until 13 February: both tell a mirror image of 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 VasilyKandinsky with a backward view that goes from recent years in France to its beginnings in Munich, but also presents the first North American retrospective of the British award-winning Turner Gillian Wearing ("Wearing Masks"). Finally, a small jewel at the Jewish Museum: "The Hare with the eyes of Amber" is open until May, the reconstruction of the history of the Ephrussi family celebrated in the 2010 memoir of 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 residences of the Ephrussians focusing on the collection of netsuke, the very small Japanese sculptures ofEdo period saved by a waitress who hid them in a mattress during World War II and returned to the family after the defeat of Nazism. (HANDLE).