Opinion
An Archconservative Magazine Discovers Afrofuturism at the Met and Is Not Pleased
Conservative critic Gilbert T. Sewall wants to make the Met great again.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Art
Met Museum Reimagines the Period Room Through the Lens of Afrofuturism
From Njideka Akunyili Crosby to Elizabeth Catlett, Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room integrates works by Black creators from the past to the present.
News
Responding to Pressure From Cambodia, Met Museum Reviews Suspected Looted Artifacts
An investigation by the Cambodian government flagged 45 “highly significant” items in the museum's collection as looted.
News
A Turkish Idol Will Not Be Repatriated, New York Judge Rules
A US District Judge ruled Turkey “slept on its rights” to the figurine by waiting until 2017 to seek its return, after it had been on view at the Metropolitan Museum for decades.
Art
Cloaked in Power and the Tutored Gaze, the Medici Portraits at the Met
My sense is that people come to this museum and this show wanting to learn other histories by having their way of looking tutored and trained.
News
Art Dealer Used Offshore Accounts to Trade Looted Antiquities, Pandora Papers Say
Cambodian artifacts traded by dealer Douglas Latchford, accused of trafficking in looted art, are on view at the Met and the British Museum.
Art
Neglected 20th-Century Women Photographers Begin to Get Their Due
The exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum aims to move beyond Euro-American historical narrative.
News
The Best Thing About This Year’s Met Gala Are the Memes
The Met Gala moved forward last night with the laughably dystopian theme of “American Independence.”
News
Maya Stone Monuments Are Latest Additions to the Met Museum’s Great Hall
Loaned to the Met by the Republic of Guatemala, the two stelae feature life-sized representations of influential Indigenous American rulers.
Art
What “All the Rapes in the Met Museum” Tell Us About Sexual Violence in Art History
A new book project by Macushla Robinson looks at the way in which sexual violence is discussed, and often downplayed, in museum wall labels and cataloguing.
News
David’s Painting of Eminent Scientists Depicted Them as More Elite Than Revolutionary
The original composition showed the chemists “as wealthy tax collectors and fashionable luxury consumers rather than as the progressive and scientifically minded couple that define the portrait today.”
Music
When Live Music Brings the Beat Back Into Your Body
A concert at the Cloisters shed the Met’s stuffiness, broadening what performance can be.