Mexican architect Frida Escobedo will oversee the renovation of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s $500 million modern and contemporary wing, the New York museum announced on Sunday. Escobedo, who established her studio in Mexico City in 2006, will be the first woman to design a wing at the Met since the museum’s founding in 1870. The restoration of what is currently known as the Modern Wing will see it expand to include 80,000 square feet of exhibition and public space.The Met had sought to overhaul its contemporary and modern art galleries for more than a decade and recently declared that it
Donors like to see their names on new building additions, and some find ways to promote diversity while doing so, but there are more direct ways to make staffs and collections more inclusive, a Georgetown scholar argues.