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The Met’s Revamped Rockefeller Wing Shows the Indispensable Power of Art
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York reopened its Michael C. Rockefeller Wing on Saturday after a four-year, $70 million renovation.
- The reopening takes place amid ongoing discussions about how Western museums represent cultural diversity and the movement to return artifacts to their nations of origin.
- The renovated wing displays over 500 works from more than 170 cultures across Africa, the ancient Americas, and Oceania, including a 13th-century clay sculpture from Djenne-Djenno and self-portraits by photographer Samuel Fosso.
- Curator Alisa LaGamma emphasized the collection’s post-independence formation free from colonial weight, while a third of the works are newly acquired, including thousands of photographs from the Arthur Walther collection.
- The reopening highlights sub-Saharan African artists’ achievements as equal to other world traditions and aims to provide nuanced, contextualized understanding through redesigned galleries and digital features.
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New York's Met museum sheds new light on African art collection
From a delicate 13th-century clay figure to self-portraits by photographer Samuel Fosso, New York's Metropolitan Museum reopens its African art collection on Saturday, exploring the "complexity" of the past and looking to the present.
Metropolitan Museum Celebrates Grand Reopening of Revamped Michael C. Rockefeller Wing with Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony
(New York, May 31, 2025)—The Metropolitan Museum of Art officially reopened The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing for the Museum’s collections of the Arts of Africa, the Ancient Americas, and Oceania, with a ribbon cutting ceremony. Guests were greeted by performances from Real De Mexico in the Great Hall and by Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation (ASASE) in The Met’s Milton Petrie European Sculpture Court where the event was held. Marques Marzan opene…
Rotuma cultural handicrafts displayed in top Museum
It was a proud day for Rotuman artist Sofia Tekela-Smith, putting her island home on the world map as her work was displayed among the greats at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The reimagined Galleries of the Arts of Oceania showcase artifacts from across the Pacific, including Fiji and Rotuma, at the […]
After four years of transformation, the Rockefeller wing of the Metropolitan Museum offers a new perspective on the arts of Africa, Oceania and the pre-colonial Americas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York inaugurates a revamped scenography to highlight centuries of often unknown artistic creations. Among the masterpieces, a moving statuette on earth [...] Article The Met unveils a renovated setting for its African and oceanic treasures …
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