{"id":8636,"date":"2020-03-17T17:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T21:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=8636"},"modified":"2025-02-09T18:55:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T23:55:36","slug":"wangechi-mutus-metropolitan-museum-of-art-facade-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/17\/wangechi-mutus-metropolitan-museum-of-art-facade-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Wangechi Mutu’s Metropolitan Museum of Art Facade Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a> may be closed to deter the spread of COVID-19 but one of its most exciting new commissions is still on view outside.\u00a0 In never-filled niches designed to hold statuary, Wangechi Mutu has installed four bronze sculptures of powerful women wrapped in coiled garments that the artist describes as \u2018living, tactile and fleshy\u2019 but which also act protectively.\u00a0 Polished disks (here, at the back of this figure\u2019s head) echo traditional ornament worn by women of status in many African cultures.\u00a0 Though inspired by caryatid sculptures in which women support a burden (from prestige stools<\/a> to the Vanderbilt mantlepiece<\/a>) these queenly and otherworldly figures are leaders, not servers.\u00a0 (On view outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art through June 8th<\/sup>, 2020).<\/p>\n

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Wangechi Mutu, \u2018The Seated\u2019 (one of four sculptures in the series), bronze, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Metropolitan Museum of Art may be closed to deter the spread of COVID-19 but one of its most exciting new commissions is still on view outside.\u00a0 In never-filled niches designed to hold statuary, Wangechi Mutu has installed four bronze sculptures of powerful women wrapped in coiled garments that the artist describes as \u2018living, tactile … <\/p>\n

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