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Schwartz Gallery Met hosts 'New Yorker Magazine' Artists

Ana Juan - “Roundabout the Witch” Acrylic on canvas; two panels - Courtesy of the artist  

NEW YORK - The Arnold & Marie Schwartz Gallery Met celebrate a unique collaboration between the Metropolitan Opera and The New Yorker bringing together artists from the magazine, plus special guests, for a colorful exhibition of original artworks titled “Hansel and Gretel” on Thursday, November 15, from 12:30pm to 1:30pm, at the Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery Met at the Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, 65th Street and Broadway.

Christoph Niemann, “Hell’s Kitchen”, (Watercolor)The exhibition features renowned New Yorker artists Roz Chast, Ian Falconer, Jules Feiffer, Ana Juan, Ed Koren, Anita Kunz, Lorenzo Mattotti, Christoph Niemann, Lou Romano, Owen Smith, William Steig, Gahan Wilson, and Bob Zoell. The exhibit also features new works by contemporary artists John Currin, George Condo, and William Wegman—also inspired by Hansel and Gretel. The art will be on display and free to the public from November 16 through February 2008.

The “Hansel and Gretel” exhibition is inspired by the Met’s holiday presentation of Engelbert Humperdinck’s operatic version of the Grimm fairy tale, which premiers at the Met December 24.

Located in the Met's south-side lobby, Jules Feiffer “Into the Woods” the Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery Met hosts works by some of the contemporary art world's most innovative and provocative figures. Created by General Manager Peter Gelb and curated by Dodie Kazanjian, the new venue continues and reaffirms the Met's long history of groundbreaking relationships with major visual artists-such as Chagall and Hockney-while fostering new opportunities for collaboration. The Schwartz Gallery Met is open every day, and admission is free to ticket holders and the general public.

An extraordinary $1 million gift from Marie Schwartz, an Advisory Director on the Met Board, has made this initiative possible, and in recognition the Met has named the gallery for her and her late husband, Arnold.

Gallery Met opened in September 2006 with an exhibition of works inspired the 2006-07 season's new productions. The artists represented included Cecily Brown, John Currin, Barnaby Furnas, Makiko Kudo, Richard Prince, David Salle, Sophie von Hellerman, and others. During the summer of 2007, the space is home to Opera by Design, an exhibition of set models of the seven new productions that will premiere in the 2007-08 season.