The architect will become the first woman to design a wing of the Met.
The new modern and contemporary art wing is expected to cost $500 million, and it will bear the names of Oscar L. Tang, an emeritus trustee at the Met, and his wife H. M. Agnes Hsu-Tang, who last November announced plans to give the museum $125 million.
First announced in 2014, the plans to renovate the wing have been viewed as an attempt by the Met to beef up its modern and contemporary art offerings, something it had already tried to do in recent years with its now-defunct Met Breuer annex, taking over the Whitney Museum’s former Madison Avenue home. The new wing is expected to provide a permanent home to the dozens of Cubist masterworks that collector Leonard A. Lauder donated to the Met in 2013.
Escobedo has become known for taking on projects in institutional settings that pay mind to the formal and social properties of the materials she relies upon. She designed an expansion of La Tallera Siqueiros, David Alfaro Siqueiros’s workshop in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and in 2018, she took on the Serpentine Galleries’s esteemed annual architecture commission, becoming the youngest person ever to do so, at age 38.
In a statement, Escobedo said, “The Met is one of the most relevant sites for culture on a global scale, and it is an honor to be selected for this historic architectural reimagining. The Tang Wing presents an opportunity to give new life to the Museum’s art from the 20th and 21st century; to celebrate the dynamics we can find within art of different times, geographies, and ideologies; and to uncover new spaces for self-reflection and connection with others.
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