If everything goes as Nairy Baghramian imagined back in Berlin, then the people on New York buses M1, M2, M3 and M4 will be getting a visual sugar fix for the next seven months if they get to the 82nd .Look out the window on the right. Because there, on both sides of the main portal of the Metropolitan Museum, there are two empty niches in the facade. The architect William Morris Hunt once planned equally enormous sculptures between colossal columns. But when construction was completed in 1902, the bases remained empty. For four years now, the museum has regularly invited contemporary artists to fill the niches – a bit like filling the empty “Fourth Plinth” in London’s Trafalgar Square, only four times as lavish.
Nairy Baghramian in the Metropolitan Museum New York: What the Berlin artist shows – culture
