The redisplay of the Ceremonial House Ceiling in one of the Oceanic art galleries in The Met's renovated Rockefeller Wing (all photos Maya Pontone/Hyperallergic unless noted otherwise) When the ...
The Ceremonial House Ceiling, a map of mythical knowledge, had hung a particular way over the Rockefeller Wing for decades. Then the Kwoma people of Papua New Guinea had their say. Detail from the ...
NEW YORK — Beginning in the late 1930s, Nelson Rockefeller tried to interest the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the exhibition of pre-Columbian artifacts, which he had begun to collect after a 1933 ...