The Threads of Architecture with Sheila Hicks and Frida Escobedo
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Friday, March 8, 2024 6 – 7 pm
Sheila Hicks for NGV Triennial 2023. Courtesy of National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Photo: Antoine Doyen
Sheila Hicks will be in conversation with Frida Escobedo (lead architect of The Met’s new Oscar L. Tang and H. M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing for modern and contemporary art) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Hicks and Escobedo join Met curators to discuss their shared interests, including ancient and modern architecture, textile chronologies, and their experiences of Mexico in connection with their respective practices.
The event is presented in celebration of Women’s History Month, and in conjunction with the opening of ‘Weaving Abstraction in Ancient and Modern Art’, now open at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. For those unable to attend, this event will be recorded.