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Installed under the Met Museum<\/a>\u2019s central interior staircase, the atmospheric Byzantine Crypt is host to the exhibition \u2018Afterlives,\u2019 a show of contemporary art that engages with life after death.\u00a0 Tavares Strachan\u2019s \u2018ENOCH,\u2019 titled after the Biblical character who, rather than dying was \u2018taken up,\u2019 is one of the show\u2019s standout pieces, a monument to Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., the first Black American astronaut who died in a flight crash in 1967.\u00a0 The small bronze sculpture resembles an Egyptian canopic urn, a vessel intended to hold partial remains of a deceased person, but is surfaced in gold, adding to the precious quality of the piece.\u00a0 An edition of the sculpture was launched into space<\/a> as a small, 3U satellite in 2018, symbolically completing a final mission.\u00a0 (On view through Jan 25th<\/sup>, 2026).<\/p>\n

Tavares Strachan, ENOCH (display unit), bronze, 24k gold, steel, radar retroreflectors and sacred air blessed by a Shinto priest, 14 3\/8 x 3 \u00bd x 4 1\/8 inches, 2015-17.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Tavares Strachan, ENOCH (display unit), bronze, 24k gold, steel, radar retroreflectors and sacred air blessed by a Shinto priest, 14 3\/8 x 3 \u00bd x 4 1\/8 inches, 2015-17.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Installed under the Met Museum\u2019s central interior staircase, the atmospheric Byzantine Crypt is host to the exhibition \u2018Afterlives,\u2019 a show of contemporary art that engages with life after death.\u00a0 Tavares Strachan\u2019s \u2018ENOCH,\u2019 titled after the Biblical character who, rather than dying was \u2018taken up,\u2019 is one of the show\u2019s standout pieces, a monument to Robert … <\/p>\n

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