NEW YORK.-In a unique collaboration between the Metropolitan Opera and The New Yorker magazine, the Arnold & Marie Schwartz Gallery Met brings together artists from the magazine, plus special guests, in a colorful exhibition of original artworks titled “Hansel and Gretel” which opens on Friday, November 16, and runs through February 2008 at Gallery Met, located in the south side of the lobby of the Metropolitan Opera House.

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.

Organized by Gallery Met Director Dodie Kazanjian in collaboration with the New Yorker’s Art Editor Francoise Mouly, “Hansel and Gretel” is inspired by the Met’s holiday presentation of Humperdinck’s operatic version of the Grimm fairy tale, premiering at the Met on December 24.