清 王翬等 康熙南巡圖，第三卷: 濟南至泰山, Wang Hui (1632-1717) and assistants, The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Three: Ji'nan to Mount Tai, Datable to 1691-98, Handscroll; ink and color on silk, 26 11/16 x 548 1/2 in. (67.8 x 1393.8 cm). Purchase, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1979, detail, Leaving Ji’nan into landscape

NEW YORK.- The theme of journeys, both real and imagined, will be presented in Journeys: Mapping the Earth and Mind in Chinese Art, opened at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Featuring more than 60 works of art in various pictorial formats – hanging scroll, handscroll, album, fan, book, and photograph – the exhibition explores the rich symbolic meanings and cultural significance of journeys as embodied in works of art dating from the 11th century to the present. The exhibition will be organized thematically: emotional partings and returns, roaming the wilderness, escapist visions and garden retreats, dream journeys, travelers, scenic sites and landmarks, and topographic paintings and maps. Highlights of the exhibition will include a brilliantly colored 42-foot-long map entitled Ten Thousand Miles Along the Yellow River (late 17th-early 18th century), a rare deerskin map of Forts Zeelandia and Provintia and the City of Tainan (18th century), as well as a striking series of eight photographs, The North: Bicycle Rider, by contemporary artist Hai Bo (born 1962). Approximately one third of the works are to be shown for the first time at the Museum, including 16 loans and three new acquisitions... lire la suite sur http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=19368

明 文徵明 樓居圖 軸, Wen Zhengming (1470-1559), Living Aloft: Master Liu's Retreat (detail), Dated 1543, Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper, 37 1/2 x 18 in. Promised Gift of Marie-Hélène and Guy Weill.