New Logo and Identity for The Met by Wolff Olins

Review by Mark Kingsley. This is how they describe themselves: The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the largest museum in the Western Hemisphere, and the world’s most encyclopedic art museum under one roof. Founded in 1870, its permanent collections, housed in 17 curatorial departments, embrace more than two million works of art spanning 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the present, from every part of the globe, in all artistic media, and at the highest levels of creative excellence.Metropolitan Museum of Art website I have no argument with that. The museum is the closest thing I have to a spiritual wellspring in New York City. And it’s been that way to me, several times a month, for well over three decades.Early last week I received a robo-mailing from the museum