In Brief
#CongressSaveCulture: Metropolitan Museum Advocates $4B in Funding for Museums
Thousands have signed the museum’s petition asking Congress to dedicate part of its potential $2 trillion stimulus package to museums.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Opinion
Dire Forecast From Metropolitan Museum Suggests Closure Until July
The president of the American Alliance of Museums tells the New York Times, “This situation is by far more dire than anything I have experienced in my 25 years of being an arts finance professional.”
News
Metropolitan Museum Announces Indefinite Closure to Contain COVID-19
Starting tomorrow, March 13, the museum's three locations will shutter.
Art
The Parisian Bourgeoisie According to Félix Vallotton
In an age that celebrated the avant-garde and the so-called vie bohème, Swiss-born painter and printmaker Félix Vallotton deftly demonstrated that everyday, middle-class people were just as worthy of artistic representation.
Art
The Ornate Objects of Early European Technology
At the Metropolitan Museum, Making Marvels: Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe makes clear Europe’s obsession with technological and scientific advancement between 1550 and 1750.
Art
Kent Monkman Introduces Candid Indigenous Narratives to the Metropolitan Museum’s Great Hall
In a new major commission for the Met, Monkman renders the past injustices and contemporary challenges endured by Indigenous people in the style of academic history painting.
Books
A Peek Into Some of the Best Art Books of 2019
Paula Rego, John Ruskin, Donald Judd, Lucian Freud, Hokusai, and, yes, Leonardo da Vinci.
Art
A Creative Workshop to Affirm and Empower Black Girls and Women
The Beautiful Project, a North Carolina-based collective, is hosting a creative workshop at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to forge community between Black girls and women through photography and writing.
News
A Glorious Gift of European Artworks Is on Display at the Metropolitan Museum
Selections from the trove donated by the late Jayne Wrightsman includes stunning works by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Jean François de Troy, and Eugène Delacroix.
Art
What Cookie Monster Can Teach Us About Art
From art critic, to poet, to journalist, the Sesame Street character is always hungry for cookies — and in pursuit of beauty.
Art
Learn How to Volunteer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has over 1,400 volunteers, but it's looking for more.
News
Hundreds March from American Museum of Natural History to Metropolitan Museum for Anti-Columbus Day Tour
For its fourth annual Anti-Columbus Day Tour, Decolonize This Place reiterated its demands that AMNH remove its controversial statue of Theodore Roosevelt