When the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City opens a new gallery in 2025 to showcase art from the Pacific Islands, it will do so with a heavy focus on the environment.
The museum is teaming up with the World Monuments Fund to present "What Makes a Cultural Landmark? Perspectives from Oceania," a program that will look at "the ways in which interisland mobility, ocean navigation, and cosmology influence the region's expansive sense of spatial and built environments," the New York Times reports.
The June 21 event will include a panel of experts who will discuss "the ways in which interisland mobility, ocean navigation, and cosmology influence the region's expansive sense of spatial and built environments," the museum says in a press release.
The art in the Met's new galleries will focus on the "rich history of creative expression and innovation that is emblematic of this expansive region," the museum says.
The Met's galleries for the Arts of Oceania currently feature 2,800 works from the two neighboring regions of Australia and Southeast Asia, whose indigenous peoples share a common ancestry with Pacific Islanders. Read the Entire Article
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