The Metropolitan Museum of Art in N.Y.C. reveals renderings of a forthcoming wing, named after donors Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang.
, the first woman ever to envision a wing at the 154-year-old New York museum. Some $550 million in private donations have been raised to support the creation of the wing, which is officially set to open in 2030.American Eagle CEO’s Oceanfront South Florida Penthouse Hits the Market for $34 Million$125 million, the wing has been in the works since 2014.
In its current plan, the wing will vastly expand the Met’s space for modern and contemporary art, growing the existing wing’s gallery space by about 50 percent. The design itself appears to reflect the Met’s ambitions of globalizing its modern and contemporary art galleries, which have historically skewed American and European, as is the case at many major US institutions. The Met began to remedy this in a public way during the mid- and late 2010s with its short-lived Met Breuer annex, housed in the Whitney Museum’s former headquarters, where the Met staged surveys for international artists such as Mrinalini Mukherjee, Lygia Pape, and Marisa Merz.
Her plan includes a cafe to be located on the wing’s fifth floor, as well as a relocated sculpture garden. Formerly, the sculpture garden, which has played host to large-scale works by Jeff Koons, Imran Qureshi, Adrián Villar Rojas, and more, was sited on the museum’s fifth-floor rooftop; it has been a site of pilgrimage for summertime visitors. Now, that sculpture garden will be on a fourth-floor terrace of Escobedo’s wing.
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