New Yorkers are about to lose one of their favorite skyline perches—and no, it’s not another rooftop bar , it’s The Met’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden . The museum has just opened its 2025 roof garden commission and when it closes on October 19, the terrace will go dark for nearly five years.

The swan song belongs to Cincinnati-born artist Jennie C. Jones, who has filled the rooftop with , a trio of monumental sculptures modeled on string instruments. Think a trapezoidal zither reclining like a bass trap, a wind-played Aeolian harp standing tall against the skyline and a doubled one-string leaning in two directions as if in conversation with itself. Their taut lines and maroon-red planes look ready to be plucked, but the only “performer” is the breeze.

Jones has

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