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The Genesis Facade Commission: Liu Wei
17 Sep 2026 — 8 Jun 2027 at Metropolitan Museum of Art
· New York City
The Genesis Facade Commission: Liu Wei presents a distinctive artistic intervention on an architectural facade. This commission showcases the contemporary practice of Liu Wei, engaging with the intersection of visual art and public space.
About the artist
Liu Wei
1972
Liu Wei is a Chinese artist based in Beijing. He works in varied media – video, installation, drawing, sculpture, and painting – with no uniting stylistic tendency, though the Saatchi Gallery finds a uniting theme of "a sentiment of excess, corruption, and aggression reflective of cultural…
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
· New York City
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City. By floor area, it is the fourth-largest museum in the world and the largest art museum in the Americas. With 5,727,258 visitors in fiscal year 2025, it was the most-visited museum in…
