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Metropolitan Museum of ArtLatest Stories

original drawings by Paul Rudolph will be on view at the Met
Materialized Space

A major retrospective displaying the work of Paul Rudolph debuts at the Met this September

Newly Appointed

Tanja Hwang is joining MoMA as a curator in the Department of Architecture and Design

A Metropolitan Affair

Peterson Rich Office is designing a new special exhibition gallery, dining and retail space, and street-level entrance at The Met

Nooks and Crannies

Artist Nairy Baghramian’s Scratching the Back emerges from the columns lining The Met’s facade

Child’s Play

The Met Fifth Avenue’s 81st Street Studio by KOKO Architecture + Design delights children and the young at heart

Woman With a Film Camera

A photo album of New York in 1929 by photographer Berenice Abbott rewards close inspection

met rooftop pavilion
From California With Love

Lauren Halsey’s rooftop pavilion at the Met melds Egyptian iconography with the visual culture of Los Angeles

“Flattery or Thievery?”

Artist Willie Cole calls the Met Gala’s plastic water bottle chandeliers “a blatant rip off” of his work

First Monday in May

Architect Tadao Ando designs decor for Met Gala and upcoming Karl Lagerfeld exhibition

Designing Tomorrow’s Met

A trio of talks last fall forecast winds of change on the Upper East Side

interior view of gallery with statues on display
Chromatic Odyssey

Exhibition at The Met brings ancient antiquities to life through colorful reconstructions

collage with egyptian sculptures on background
Raiding the Met

WAI Architecture Think Tank’s studio at Columbia GSAPP explored postcolonial conditions through narrative means

black and white photo of a series of blast furnaces
“The Cathedrals of Our Times”

At the Met, the first posthumous show of Bernd and Hilla Becher’s photography showcases their influential oeuvre

a colorful installation adorns an escalator bank at the met
Going Up

Michael Lin’s Pentachrome debuts at the Met’s Great Hall Escalator

cross section rendering of a skylight scheme at the met
Moving in the Light Direction

Beyer Blinder Belle’s “attic” renovations better illuminate the Met’s European Painting galleries

Met With Secrecy

The design competition for Montreal’s PHI Contemporary is public and transparent. Why can’t the Met do the same?

rendering of a large amphitheater on an insdustrial waterfront
Weekend Ready Design

Daily digest: Studio One Eleven to design waterfront L.A. amphitheater, Ottawa’s Block 2 finalists revealed, and more

rendering of a temporary room covered in cascading vines in Times Square
Great Outdoors Please

Daily digest: Raúl Cordero’s Times Square oasis, Kengo Kuma to design auditorium for Portland Japanese Garden, and more

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