The Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces Funding Milestone for the Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing for Modern and Contemporary Art webwire.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from webwire.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Met announces Mexican as 1st female architect for wing thestar.com.my - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thestar.com.my Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Monday that a Mexican architect has been chosen as the first woman to design a wing at The Met, as the museum is known. The Met said in a statement Monday that Mexican architect Frida Escobedo has been selected to design the renovation of The Met’s modern and…
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