Metropolitan Museum of Art to Display Giacometti Sculptures at Temple of Dendur

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will present an unusual exhibition pairing Alberto Giacometti's sculptures with the ancient Egyptian Temple of Dendur, opening in June. The collaboration between the museum and the Giacometti Foundation brings together the Swiss sculptor's modernist works and the 2,000-year-old sandstone temple, which has been housed in the Met's Sackler Wing since 1978. The exhibition represents an unconventional curatorial choice, juxtaposing 20th-century figurative sculpture with one of the museum's most iconic architectural installations from antiquity.