Lauren Halsey / Abraham Thomas, Douglas Kearney

New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2023]

New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press

©2023

63 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 19 cm

Published in conjunction with the exhibition "The Roof Garden Commission : Lauren Halsey" held at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from April 18 through October 22, 2023

"American artist Lauren Halsey (b. 1987, Los Angeles) has been commissioned to create a site-specific installation for The Met's Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. Halsey will create a full-scale architectural structure imbued with the collective energy and imagination of the South Central Los Angeles Community where she was born and continues to work. Titled the eastside of south central los angeles hieroglyph prototype architecture (I), the installation is designed to be inhabited by The Met’s visitors, who will be able to explore its connections to sources as varied as ancient Egyptian symbolism, 1960s utopian architecture, and contemporary visual expressions like tagging that reflect the ways in which people aspire to make public places their own.."--Metropolitan Museum of Art website

English

June 09, 2023

Includes bibliographical references (page 61)

Exhibition catalogs.