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French artist Pierre Huyghe installed the third in a new series of site-specific commissions for The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. Huyghe has spent the past 25 years working across media to create ritualistic situations and immersive encounters. At the Met, his project explores the transformation of cultural and natural resources through an evolving process and a complex network of elements taken from the surrounding environment. The Roof Garden Commission: Pierre Huyghe is on view from May 12 through November 1, 2015 (weather permitting). “We are proud to present this unusual new commission,” said Sheena Wagstaff, the Museum’s Leonard A. Lauder Chairman of Modern and Contemporary Art. “For years, Pierre has created thought-provoking encounters with art and exhibitions that explore the surprising mutability

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