Katrin Sigurdardottir, “Boiserie” (detail), 2010 (Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Bruce Schwarz, The Photograph Studio. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Uris Center for Education, ground floor
1000 Fifth Ave. at 82nd St.
Friday, December 10, $18, 7:00
212-535-7710
www.metmuseum.org
www.katrinsigurdardottir.info
Spectrum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s initiative to introduce midcareer artists to younger audiences through social events, has previously staged gathering with Pablo Bronstein, the Moth storytelling collective (with Jonathan Ames and Kyp Malone), and Ringo Starr playing with Ben Harper & Relentless7. On Friday night, December 10, Icelandic artist Katrin Sigurdardottir, who was born in Reykjavik and lives and works in New York, will discuss her current exhibit, “Katrin Sigurdardottir at the Met,” with curators Anne Strauss and Daniëlle O. Kisluk-Grosheid, followed by a reception and a viewing of the works. The exhibit consists of a pair of site-specific installations that re-create two of the Met’s eighteenth-century French period rooms known as boiseries from the Hôtel de Crillon and the Hôtel de Cabris, one of which can be viewed through one-way mirrors while the other can be physically entered, offering opposing museum experiences.