Walking into the galleries of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, one might expect to encounter ancient nudes rendered in marble. It's surprising, then, to see a life-size Japanese cypress sculpture of a shirtless, man-bunned, flip-flopped young man, balanced elegantly atop a wooden plinth and titled-of all things Archangel. But then again, as a work by the always-surprising sculptor Charles Ray, it makes a lot more sense.

Walking into the galleries of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, one might expect to encounter ancient nudes rendered in marble. It's surprising, then, to see a life-size Japanese cypress sculpture of a shirtless, man-bunned, flip-flopped young man, balanced elegantly atop a wooden plinth and titled-of all things Archangel. But then again, as a work by the always-surprising sculptor Charles Ray, it makes a lot more sense.

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