Cultured Magazine: Architect Kulapat Yantrasast Is Bringing His Boundless Imagination to the Met’s Arts of Africa, Ancient America, and Oceania Galleries

Cultured Magazine sat with Kulapat Yantrasast in the months before the Met’s Michael C. Rockefeller Wing reopened, exploring the design intent behind the museum’s first major reimagining of its galleries for the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Ancient Americas in nearly four decades.

The conversation traces the project’s ambition: more daylight, a looser sequence, room for living traditions alongside historic works, and a recalibrated relationship with the rest of the Met. For Kulapat, the work is less about intervention than about clearing space — letting the art do the talking

Image: Eric Petschek / courtesy of WHY Architecture.

Pre-opening, the magazine framed the project as one of the most consequential museum renovations of the decade.