Metropolitan Museum of Art Acquires Mixed-Media Work by Rashid Johnson

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired Rashid Johnson’s 2019 mixed-media work The Broken Five, which debuted at the artist’s solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in New York that same year. The piece has not been on view since that showing, and it is the first unique work by Johnson to enter the institution’s collection, following its acquisition of an untitled etching by the artist from 2015.
Johnson announced the Met’s latest acquisition of his work in an Ins