Tag: Metropolitan Museum of Art
At the Met, Protest and Poetry About Water
In a transfixing two-minute video called “River (The Water Serpent)” in the Metropolitan Museum’s American Wing we see…
The Multi-Layered Movie of American Fashion
When “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion,” the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute show, opened last September…
Everything You Need to Know About the Met Gala 2022
Follow our live coverage of the Met Gala 2022 red carpet.First things first: What is the Met Gala?Officially,…
Lauren Halsey Chosen for Met Roof Installation
Lauren Halsey, 34, an artist from South Central Los Angeles who often makes site-specific installations and also founded…
Met Museum Names a Mexico City Architect to Lead a New Major Project
The Mexican architect Frida Escobedo, who at 38 was the youngest architect to design the Serpentine Pavilion in…
‘Carpeaux Recast’: A Sculptural Gem With a Knotty Back Story
Traditional museums are literally conservative places. They’re built to freeze objects in time, to shield them from change.…
Review: Beethoven Returns for the Age of Black Lives Matter
Beethoven’s only opera, “Fidelio,” is hardly a fixed text. He wrote several possible overtures for it and reworked…
In ‘Charles Ray: Figure Ground,’ a Radical Conservative on Display
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has never looked as sharply contemporary, even hip, as it does with the…
Charles Ray Is Pushing Sculpture to Its Limit
“When you get to the more volatile social subject matter, I often think it starts as a provocation…