What might have been (and could be) at the Met.

• Position: Metropolitan Museum of Art - Museums Today

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"Pablo Bronstein at the met" is a presentation of new work by the London-based artist, addressing the history and future of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Several large ink drawings suggest a mythical history of the museum, imagining the building under various stages of construction. A series of computer drawings will focus on hypothetical futures of the museum.

Bronstein was born in 1977 in Argentina and now lives and works in London. Through drawings, installations, performances, and books, he has investigated a variety of historical periods and tastes during his short career. His palette encompasses myriad styles: from the mannered Baroque of Turin to the classical architecture of 18th-century England and France, from early 20th-century modernism to post-modemism in its various manifestations.

Adopting the guise of architect, architectural historian, and romantic and conceptual artist, Bronstein reveals what might be described as the veneer of architecture. In so doing, he invites viewers to consider the mechanisms that delineate private and public space, question their own understanding of history, and reflect the nature of display and the role of museums in interpreting culture and history.

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For his first solo exhibition in New York, Bronstein has taken as his subject the history of The Metropolitan Museum of Art as seen retrospectively, and inaccurately, from an unspecified future date. He shows the construction of the Fifth Avenue facade as if it had been built all at...