The Met’s Revamped Rockefeller Wing Shows the Indispensable Power of Art

$70 Million and Four Years Later, the Met Reopens the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing

The renovated wing includes the museum’s galleries dedicated to the Arts of Africa, the Ancient Americas, and Oceania.

The Met’s revamped Rockefeller Wing shows the indispensable power of art

The museum’s bright new spaces offer an invigorating, enlightened view of art from Africa, Oceania and the ancient Americas

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.

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 …

After four years of work and a $70 million project, the reopening of the Michael C. Rockefeller wing of the Metropolitan Museum in New York is taking place against the backdrop of vigorous debates on the representation of cultural diversity in Western museums and questions about the return of works to their home countries. In this context, the ...

Mexico City.- The light that reverberates in the renewed Michael C. Rockefeller Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) of New York constitutes a declaration of principles: to illuminate, yes, the ancient pieces of Africa, America and Oceania, but above all to illuminate the understanding about them and about those who produced them. Even more: the multiculturality that forged these artistic expressions and their belonging to cities that, i…