For four months, beginning on Monday (September 9 – January 20), the exterior facade flanking the front doors of The Metropolitan Museum of Art will feature artist Wangechi Mutu’s sculptures. It will be the first such installation near the museum's historic Fifth Avenue steps, The Met announced. The exhibition, tilted “The NewOnes, will free Us,” is the museum’s inaugural program for an annual artist commission series that will fill the unused space with art. The sculptures represent “words that we haven’t heard, people we haven’t noticed,” Mutu told The New York Times.
The 47-year-old Kenyan-American artist has been applauded for her collage-paintings, art films, live performances and sculptures, which are made of bronze and organic materials. “Like her collage-paintings, Mutu’s sculptures reflect critically on social and ecological injustices and inequalities. Female transformation and empowerment are at the core of all her ideas and evidence in the completed work,” reads The Met’s exhibition overview.
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