The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Venue Partner)
1000 Fifth Ave at 82nd St
212.535.7710
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Image: Romare Bearden (American, 1911–1988). The Block, 1971. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Shore, 1978 (1978.61.1-6). © Romare Bearden Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
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Jan 16, 2010 – Apr 18, 2010
Daily
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Directions: Main Building: Take the 4, 5, or 6 train to 86th Street and walk to Fifth Avenue; OR take the M1, M2, M3, or M4 bus along Fifth Avenue. The Cloisters: Take the A train to 190th Street and walk, or transfer to the M4 bus and ride north one stop.
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Free with museum admission
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This show from the Met’s permanent collection features the 1971 mural-size collage The Block by Romare Bearden (American, 1911–1988), as well as a dozen of his preliminary sketches and photographs, which were given recently to the Museum and are being shown for the first time. As a group, they reveal the artist’s creative process, in which he literally and figuratively "collages" different images and experiences from reality, and from his memory and imagination, into a tableau that transcends the limitations of a fixed time and place. At the same time, he pays homage to a specific street in Harlem, the neighborhood that inspired so much of his work.
