Dark times light up roof of art museum

NEW YORK - A sculptor brings dark times, science fiction and a desire to provoke to New York's famed Metropolitan Museum of Art for this year's rooftop installation overlooking the Manhattan skyline.

Huma Bhabha's We Come in Peace depicts a towering 3.6-meter, five-headed figure weighing 1.5 tons and a 6-meter-long prostrate figure covered in a trash bag and called Benaam, or "without name" in Urdu.

The installation, which opened on Tuesday, is the sixth annual commission at the illustrious US museum's roof garden, a popular summer spot that draws nearly half a million visitors every year.