MetSpeaks: Designing Tomorrow’s Met—Kulapat Yantrasast

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is currently undertaking the renovation of one quarter of its gallery system. This fall, The Met will invite the three architects leading these distinct projects to participate in MetSpeaks: Designing Tomorrow’s Met, a three-part series of onstage conversations with Met curators.

The series will take place at the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at The Met. Each event will begin with opening remarks by Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director of The Met, followed by a presentation by the architect. The event will conclude with a conversation with Met curators and an audience Q&A with the architects about their practice. Talks are free; advance registration is required. 

Michael C. Rockefeller Wing; Arts of sub-Saharan Africa; Arts of Oceania; and the Ancient American Arts

Nearly 50 years after the groundbreaking of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, conceived to usher much of the world’s creative brilliance into an expanded Museum campus, The Met is engaged in executing of a plan to reimagine its galleries for the arts of sub-Saharan Africa, Oceania, and the ancient Americas. The new galleries seek to reintroduce these three major world traditions concentrated in a Wing that represents a global crossroads.

In 2019, The Met began a complete renovation of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing in partnership with architect Kulapat Yantrasast, founder of WHY, who has dedicated his career and practice to cultural inclusivity. For the unique challenge of equitably articulating three separate but adjacent galleries united under a single wing of the Museum—the arts of sub-Saharan Africa, Oceania, and the ancient Americas—Yantrasast’s solution has been to develop aesthetically customized yet complementary galleries for each of these art histories, each with its own spatial qualities and relationship to light. His design reimagines and reintroduces these three major world traditions in dialogue with The Met collection as a whole. The new galleries are scheduled to open in early 2025.

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6 December 2022, 18:00
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