This is the first part of a two-part exhibition introducing exciting, recently acquired works from UMMA's collections gifted to the museum during the past five years. Recent Acquisitions: Curator's Choice, Part I presents a first look at artworks, mostly prints, drawings, and photographs by artists as diverse as Annie Leibovitz, Edward Steichen, and Rembrandt van Rijn. Carole McNamara, Senior Curator of Western Art, chose works that focus on some of the enduring and compelling themes that have occupied artists in Europe and America. One is the preoccupation with the human form as an expression of ideas, feelings, and sensations. This selection begins with the tradition of the academic nude study and progresses to embrace different genres, from both secular and religious contexts. Another selection-landscapes and cityscapes-are each opportunities for artists to speak to our relationship to the natural world-both in how we experience landscape as well as how we construct our own urban environments.

This exhibition is made possible in part by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

UMMA's award-winning docents will guide visitors to experience art through active looking at selected highlights of the collections. Expect a lively and engaging conversation on a different theme each week.

PROGRAM: Bernstein - Sonata for Clarinet and Piano; Jeanjean - Andantino; Reger - Sonate for Clarinet and Piano in A-flat Major Op. 49, no. 1; Stockhausen - In Freundschaft; Allen - Magnitude

PROGRAM: Elgar - Cello Concerto in E Minor Op. 85; Brahms - Symphony no. 1 in C Minor Op. 68

Join Senior Curator for Western Art Carole McNamara in the galleries for a talk on the exhibition Face of our Time. More than 100 photographs in this exhibition by five contemporary photographers provide insight into the sometimes volatile civil and political transformations facing society and look reflectively at contemporary culture, recording history as it unfolds slowly over time.

Face of Our Time: Jacob Aue Sobol, Jim Goldberg, Zanele Muholi, Daniel Schwartz, Richard Misrach is organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Generous support is provided by Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council.

Face of Our Time at UMMA is made possible in part by the Lois Zenkel Photographic Exhibitions Fund, the University of Michigan Health System, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

In 1971, French composer Olivier Messiaen was commissioned by Alice Tully, the New York philanthropist most widely known for her contribution to Lincoln Center, to write a piece commemorating America’s bicentennial. Messiaen was inspired and fascinated by the natural wonder he found in the landscapes of the American West. Des canyons aux étoiles (From the Canyons to the Stars) represents his sonic impressions of America’s last untouched frontier. Conductor Jeffrey Tate and the Hamburg Symphony, in collaboration with Israeli filmmaker Daniel Landau, bring the piece alive in a new cinematic installation, where images of man’s impact on the environment create a counterpoint to sounds of untouched nature. Through film images projected on multiple screens, Hill Auditorium will be turned into a multi-sensory experience celebrating the beauty of the earth and our unaltered landscapes.

PROGRAM: Mussorgsky - A Tear; Levitin - Sonata for Solo Bass, Op. 58; Tchaikovsky - Three Melodies (Valse Sentimentale, Nocturne and Lenski\&##39;s Aria); Shostakovich - Passacaglia; Prokofiev - Sonata, Op. 94

PROGRAM: Liebermann - Trio no. 1 for Flute, Cello and Piano, Op. 83; Tchaikovsky - Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50

PROGRAM: Young - Human nature for Snare Drum and Tape; Becker - Mudra; Lam - Empty Mountain, Spirit Rain; Beethoven - Symphony no. 5; Daugherty - Raise the Roof; Yariv - Gyro