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Hear Me Now: The
Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina
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JUST OPENED
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Through February 5, 2023
The Met Fifth Avenue
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Focusing on the work of African American potters in the
19th–century American South—in dialogue with contemporary artistic
responses—the exhibition presents approximately 50 ceramic objects from Old
Edgefield District, South Carolina, a center of stoneware production in the
decades before the Civil War. Hear
Me Now includes monumental storage jars by enslaved and
literate potter and poet David Drake alongside rare examples of the
region's utilitarian wares, as well as enigmatic face vessels whose makers
were unrecorded. Considered through the lens of current scholarship in the
fields of history, literature, anthropology, material culture, diaspora,
and African American studies, these 19th-century vessels testify to the
lived experiences, artistic agency, and material knowledge of enslaved
peoples.
"A revelatory
exhibition"
– New York Times
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The Facade
Commission: Hew Locke, Gilt
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JUST OPENED
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Through May 22, 2023
The Met Fifth Avenue
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Hew Locke created a suite of new sculptures for The Met Fifth
Avenue's facade niches, the third in a new series of site-specific
commissions for the exterior of the Museum. The Facade Commission: Hew
Locke, Gilt
will be on view September 16, 2022, through May 22, 2023. The sculptures are
fashioned into the likeness of trophies, two partial and two whole, that
reference works of art in The Met collection. At once visually stunning and
critically incisive, Locke's practice relies on the strategy of appropriation
and an aesthetic of excess and theatricality to deconstruct iconographies
of power and to explore global histories of conquest, migration, and
exchange.
"Commanding,
thought-provoking, majestic, and impossible to ignore. They are indeed
magnificent."
– Hyperallergic
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Bernd & Hilla
Becher
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Through November 6, 2022
The Met Fifth Avenue
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The renowned German artists Bernd and Hilla Becher (1931–2007;
1934–2015) changed the course of late twentieth-century photography.
Working as a rare artist couple, they focused on a single subject: the
disappearing industrial architecture of Western Europe and North America
that fueled the modern era. Their seemingly objective style recalled
nineteenth- and early twentieth-century precedents but also resonated with
the serial approach of contemporary Minimalism and Conceptual art. Equally
significant, it challenged the perceived gap between documentary and
fine-art photography.
"Fascinating,
frankly gorgeous"
– New York Times
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