Art
Two Rodin Shows Cast the Sculptor’s Legacy in Very Different Lights
Two Rodin shows place the first modernist sculptor in historical context.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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.
Art
New York City Museums Decked Out for the Holidays
From dinosaur-shaped trees to quirky menorahs, here are six of our favorite holiday decorations at New York City museums.
Art
Best of 2017: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows
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
The International Modernisms of World War I
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.
Art
Skeleton of 18th-Century Philosopher Jeremy Bentham Will Travel to the Metropolitan Museum
The auto-icon of 18th-century philosopher Jeremy Bentham will travel from London to New York for an exhibition at the Met Breuer that explores the human body.