Museums & Institutions Artist Hew Locke Mines the Met’s Trophy-Hunting History in His New Facade Commission. The British-Guyanese artist is the third sculptor to take on the Met's Facade Commission.

Installation of Hew Locke’s urn-like trophy on the facade of the Met, inspired by an eighth-century B.C. ivory of a man leading an antelope, found in the ruins of Nimrud, ...

The artist talks to Ben Luke about about his influences and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work—from ...

Artist Hew Locke in front of “Trophy 2” The sculptures on display include a pair of large trophy cups, flanking the museum’s main entrance, and another pair of smaller trophy fragments.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has selected the Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke to create new works for its Fifth Avenue facade niches, the third in a new series of site-specific commissions for ...

Hew Locke’s Armada (2017–19) on currently view in “Entangled Pasts, 1768–now. ... These works explored the trophy-hunting acquisition strategy of many of the world’s best known museum.

And although Locke’s project turning a ‘critical eye’ on the museum’s colonial legacy, it is also curious about the historical and moral ambiguities that disappear in today’s climate of ...

Hew Locke at the British Museum review: a dense but endlessly fascinating look at untold histories - 4/5 The artist is after ...

The volume of problematic artifacts Locke uncovered in the British Museum’s archives illustrates the fundamental importance of objective historical research. Hew Locke, (left to right) "Souvenir ...

Hew Locke visits the British Museum in preparation for his exhibition. Richard Cannon “What have we here?” is the fruit of two years of Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke’s research at the ...

Hew Locke's installation, "The Procession," was commissioned by Tate Britain in 2022. It's now on view at the ICA's Watershed in East Boston. (Courtesy Mel Taing/Institute of Contemporary Art) ...

‘Hew Locke: The Procession’ featured in ICA Watershed’s 2024 season The collection, which includes 100-plus life-size figures, is coming to Boston this May. Email to a Friend ...