A woman’s blueprint, a city’s resolve: Meet the artist and philanthropists behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new wing
Architect Frida Escobedo is designing the new Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is the first woman to design a wing in the museum's 156-year history.
A museum may preserve the past so reverently that it forgets the future is waiting at the door. At The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Frida Escobedo is giving that promise architectural form. The first woman to design a wing in its 156-year history, she is shaping the Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing—and,...
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