Art
Animating the Art of the Metropolitan Museum
Simone Seagle transforms iconic works by artists like Paul Klee and Claude Monet into interactive animations.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
News
Metropolitan Museum Turns Away Visitor in 18th-Century Style Gown
On Saturday, a historian wearing her handmade robe à la française style dress was barred from entering the museum to take part in a tour.
Art
Leon Golub’s Cycles of History
Golub’s paintings cast the West’s Greco-Roman heritage not as a reflection of reason and order, but as a manifestation of its latent savagery.
Art
Michelangelo Traces the States of Being and Non-being
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 Cast the Sculptor’s Legacy in Very Different Lights
Two Rodin shows place the first modernist sculptor in historical context.
Art
Michelangelo's Divine Magnitude and Picasso's Parade of Power
The intimate drawings of Michelangelo Buonarroti and the largest painting Pablo Picasso ever made.
News
Michelangelo the Ninja Turtle Visits Michelangelo the Artist at the Metropolitan Museum
Michelangelo, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, went to see works by his Renaissance namesake this morning.
Art
Do the Met Museum's Admission Numbers Add Up?
The bigger question regarding the Metropolitan Museum's new admission policy is who should pay? Donors? The public?
Interview
Met Museum President Daniel Weiss Answers Questions About the New Admissions Policy
The President and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum spoke to Hyperallergic about the new admissions policy and what it means for visitors.
News
Metropolitan Museum Will Charge Mandatory Admission to Non-New Yorkers
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
12 Revelatory Exhibitions from 2017
Each of these exhibitions showed me something I had not seen before.
Art
Edvard Munch’s World Without Pity
Munch absorbed avant-garde styles but never became an avant-garde artist.