“@hewdjlocke’s commission offers a culturally more far-ranging introduction to the art history that awaits within, and a realistic take on how art operates in the world,” #HollandCotter writes for @nytimes. “Locke is back in a New York museum, this time solo and center-stage, as the creator of an impressive suite of sculptures installed in niches in the @metmuseum’s Fifth Avenue exterior... Probably the first thing to know about the project is that many of its images refer to specific objects in the museum’s collection, which the artist reviewed through the museum’s online catalog during the Covid lockdown. Most of the objects he pulled out are antique in date and came to the museum after being “found” — to use a term that can cover a fair amount of archaeological larceny — by modern-day diggers, dealers and institutional hoarders. Enough to say that Locke’s homophonic title, “Gilt,” alludes both to the gold paint with which his sculptures are covered and to the politically instrumental uses and misuses of art over centuries.” Read the full #NewYorkTimes article through the link in bio.