The Met Names Artists for 2024 Commissions

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Lauren Halsey’s rooftop commission for the Metropolitan Museum of Art was a smash hit this year. Her Ancient Egyptian temple inspired by the people of South Central Los Angeles was widely admired, as was Hew Locke’s subversive, punny facade commission, Gilt, which saw gold trophies mounted in front of a museum filled with treasures taken from around the world.

Yesterday, the Met announced the artists creating new works for the museum in 2024.

In April, Kosovar artist Petrit Halilaj will unveil a sculptural installation on the museum’s rooftop. Halilaj’s work is biographical, drawing on his experience living through war in the Balkans during the 1990s.

Four sculptures by South Korea’s Lee Bul will be installed in The Met’s Fifth Avenue facade in September. Lee is known for making wearable monster sculptures, cyborgs that blend classical sculpture with machine-like body parts, and utopian architectural installations.

Taiwanese artist Tong Yang-Tze will present two large-scale works of calligraphy in the Museum’s Great Hall from 21 November. Over the summer, Tong’s 100-piece ink series Silent Music (2003–2010) was animated by Chris Cheung and presented on M+ Museum’s giant multimedia facade in Hong Kong.

Met Director Max Hollein said all three artists were ‘boundary-pushing in their own right.’ —[O]

Main image: Lee Bul, Sorry for suffering – You think I'm a puppy on a picnic? (1990). 12-day performance, Kimpo Airport, Narita Airport, downtown Tokyo, Dokiwaza Theater, Tokyo. Courtesy the artist.