An Evening with Artist Hew Locke

Hew Locke, artist Tumelo Mosaka, Mellon Project Director, African American and African Diaspora Studies, Columbia University Kelly Baum, Acting Curator in Charge and Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Curator of Contemporary Art, The Met Join artist Hew Locke for a conversation about The Facade Commission: Hew Locke, Gilt, which references works of art in The Met collection that span continents and millennia. The conversation considers how Locke’s work relies on the strategy of appropriation and an aesthetic of theatricality to deconstruct iconographies of power and to explore global histories of conquest and migration. Subscribe for new content from The Met:    / @metmuseum   #TheMet #Art #TheMetropolitanMuseumofArt #Museum © 2022 The Metropolitan Museum of Art