Archinect - News2024-05-21T08:39:16-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150345811/the-met-announces-nairy-baghramian-for-its-fall-2023-facade-commission
The Met announces Nairy Baghramian for its Fall 2023 Facade Commission Josh Niland2023-04-11T13:57:00-04:00>2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/b5/b5a1331ccb73ff772bd160ae12d29b7a.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/30270830/the-metropolitan-museum-of-art" target="_blank">The Metropolitan Museum of Art</a> has announced Iranian-born German artist Nairy Baghramian as the next participant in its Fall 2023 Facade Commission series.</p>
<p>Baghramian follows Carol Bove, Wangechi Mutu, and last year’s <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150306447/artist-hew-locke-will-activate-the-met-facade-with-a-quartet-of-trophy-like-reflections-on-the-museum-s-history-and-collection" target="_blank">Hew Locke</a> for the fourth installment of the series, which first began in 2019 under the auspices of museum Director Max Hollein. </p>
<p>The museum says: “These projects are the latest in The Met’s series of contemporary commissions in which the Museum invites artists to create new works of art, establishing a dialogue between the artist's practice, The Met collection, the physical Museum, and The Met's audiences.”</p>
<p>Baghramian, also the winner of the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/14/arts/design/nairy-baghramian-nasher-prize.html" target="_blank">2022 Nasher Prize</a>, will install four abstract polychromatic sculptures as part of the commission. Working in the blank niches left behind after Richard Hunt Morris was unable to complete his work on the museum in 1902, the sculptures are said to have components that evoke images of flotsam and will be titled <em>Scratching the Back.</em></p>
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https://archinect.com/news/article/150302561/local-la-hero-lauren-halsey-s-met-rooftop-installation-will-focus-on-utopian-architecture-afrofuturism-and-community
Local LA hero Lauren Halsey’s Met rooftop installation will focus on utopian architecture, Afrofuturism, and community Josh Niland2022-03-15T20:36:00-04:00>2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/70/706ddf0aa67a81cd6ca00da6de4de2d8.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/373940/the-met" target="_blank">The Metropolitan Museum of Art</a> has announced the commission of artist <a href="https://www.davidkordanskygallery.com/artist/lauren-halsey" target="_blank">Lauren Halsey</a> for the tenth edition of its popular annual Roof Garden Commission series with a new work titled <em>the eastside of south central los angeles hieroglyph prototype architecture (I).</em></p>
<p>The 34-year-old artist’s temporary installation will feature an inhabitable structure that at once weaves the museum’s ample holdings of Egyptian art with elements of her own personal history and visual inventory in order to create a “monument to living architecture” overlooking Central Park and Fifth Avenue.</p>
<p>Halsey is known for inspiring work that examines the shifting dynamic between <a href="https://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2018/made-in-la-2018/lauren-halsey" target="_blank">architecture and community-building</a> as influenced by her upbringing in and around South Central Los Angeles. Her installation is thus taken from the desire to produce, as Met director Max Hollein put it, “a powerful form of documentation” that engages with the history, iconography, and local material culture of the neighborhood remixed with ele...</p>