Metropolitan Museum

For my Museum Visit Assignment, I chose a museum that I’ve longed to visit since the day I entered New York for the first time, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, or simply known as “The Met”. From afar, I was able to identify the shape of the building as a late-European architecture. Lucky enough, when I asked one of the staff members at the museum about the architecture of the building, they said that one of the contributing architects was Richard Morris Hunt, who is known for the “Beaux-Arts” architecture around the New York and other states. Enchantingly enough, it’s really only the façade and the entrance that define Beaux-Art. As I journeyed through the different eras and cultures, the design seemed to change. From a European entrance to a brick wall, hosting the tales of the Egyptian art that was displayed, to the entrance of a Siheyuan architected room that made me feel like a trespasser, walking through someone’s house without an invitation. While walking through most of the stairways, I could tell that there was nothing special about them, even when entering the Modern and Contemporary Art section, I realized that like the other historical eras, the design of the room resembled the style of art, both being modern and contemporary. As the Metropolitan Museum is large and adventurous, I found it slightly difficult in terms of finding pieces

She produced the piece “Lyautey Unit Blocks” in 2010 which was made from wood and paint. Each block varies size and shape as they were made to spell out the name “Lyautey”, a French army general during the French invasion of Morocco. The pieces of wood in “Lyautey Unit Blocks” have two meanings. The blocks represent the fact that General Lyautey was responsible for the building structures of Morocco’s famous Casablanca and other places also, however, the placement of each block also symbolizes the destruction that the general brought upon