News
More than 450 workers at the museum contributed works to the beloved exhibition, from security guards and technicians to librarians, registrars, and volunteers.
News
The five ancient Egyptian works, worth over $3M, may be tied to an international trafficking ring.
Opinion
In this moment of racial reckoning, we cannot continue viewing Homer's masterpiece as an apolitical seascape painting.
News
Scott Sartiano, owner of the members-only club Zero Bond, will act as Mayor Eric Adams’s liaison to the museum.
News
“Wearing historic clothing damages it. Full stop,” said the former head of conservation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, Sarah Scaturro.
News
It was glamorous! It was glitzy! It was the end of democracy as we know it!
News
Mako Komuro, who shed her noble title in 2017, is working on a show of Japanese hanging-scroll paintings at the New York museum.
Art
Despite all of the ancient painted objects in our museums, it’s rare to see an actual paint set.
News
“In America: An Anthology of Fashion” follows last year’s theme “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion.” Confused? So are we.
Art
Rather than accentuating his radicalism, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibition makes Jacques-Louis David a compelling case study in opportunism and survival.
News
Other major museums, like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, still require visitors to be masked indoors.
Art
Tensions between resistance to Surrealism as cultural imperialism and the embrace of it as a universalist vision of freedom unfettered run through the show.