Katya Kazakina, Here’s How the Met Raised $70 Million to Revamp Its African and Oceanic Galleries. (It Wasn’t Easy.), ArtNet, 6 June 2025
Some surprising patrons from the contemporary art realm provided assistance.
Stepping into the renovated wing for art from Africa, Oceania, and the ancient Americas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art last week, I gasped. The bright new space is filled with 1,800 objects representing 663 cultures. There are Fang masks from Central Africa, a ceremonial dance paddle from the Austral Islands, and 15-foot-tall wooden funerary poles carved by the Asmat people of New Guinea.
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