Art
Michelangelo's sensitive phantasmagorical drawings are riveting because they are fierce and fragile; strength and tenderness, like figure and ground, are tied together, neither one complete without the other.
Art
Two Rodin shows place the first modernist sculptor in historical context.
Art
The intimate drawings of Michelangelo Buonarroti and the largest painting Pablo Picasso ever made.
News
Michelangelo, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, went to see works by his Renaissance namesake this morning.
Art
The bigger question regarding the Metropolitan Museum's new admission policy is who should pay? Donors? The public?
Interview
The President and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum spoke to Hyperallergic about the new admissions policy and what it means for visitors.
News
The museum's president announced that as of March 1, visitors from outside of New York State will be charged a mandatory admission, but will make tickets valid for three days.
Art
Each of these exhibitions showed me something I had not seen before.
Art
Munch absorbed avant-garde styles but never became an avant-garde artist.
Art
From dinosaur-shaped trees to quirky menorahs, here are six of our favorite holiday decorations at New York City museums.
Art
It was a powder keg of a year in visual art, with strong, politically inflected, deeply personal, and wildly inventive exhibitions that touched on the classics, courted controversy, and yielded new favorites.
Art
Ephemera provides an important history lesson, especially for a war that is disappearing from America’s collective memory, but the most affective works in World War I and the Visual Arts are those that convey the pathos of the war experience.