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Met Museum Returns Two Sculptures to Nepal
A carved wooden beam that once adorned the exterior of a temple and an 11th-century stone rendering of the god Vishnu will be returned.
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On Labor and Race in Great Depression America
Art for the Millions at the Met Museum foregrounds the perspectives of women and people of color in the 1930s in the wake of industrialized labor.
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What’s Left to Say About Picasso?
A Cubist Commission in Brooklyn at The Met is a compact, simple display, but the work and research it contains is diminished by being so cut off from its historical and personal contexts.
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Free Children's Space Opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The interactive center is intended to serve as a community hub, the museum says.
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The Dark Side of Van Gogh’s Cypress Trees
The challenge at the heart of Van Gogh’s Cypresses is that the trees carried associations in the late 19th century that are lost on us today.
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Met Museum Acquires Rare 19th-Century Portrait of Enslaved Child
The painting of 15-year-old Bélizaire with the children of the family that enslaved him was restored to its original composition after his figure was covered up around 1900.
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Play Dress-Up at the Met Museum With New AR App
Using the Replica app, users can track down artworks at the museum and turn them into digitized wearable items, like a Van Gogh straw hat and a Corinthian warrior helmet.
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Do You Have What It Takes to Be the Met Museum’s Head of Provenance?
The new hire, who will be paid $140,000–$160,000, will be responsible for investigating the sometimes murky backstories of the museum’s vast holdings.
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Protesters Take to Met Museum to Denounce Charges Against Climate Activists
The action was staged in solidarity with climate protesters Joanna Smith and Tim Martin, who were indicted for targeting a Degas sculpture.
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Met Museum to Return Donations From Failed FTX Crypto Exchange
The Met received two gifts totaling $550K from the now-bankrupt company.
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Sotheby’s Buys Whitney’s Breuer Building for Reported $100M
The auction house will relocate its galleries and sales room to the Marcel Breuer-designed Brutalist building in 2025.
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Manet’s Controversial Nude Is Coming to New York
“Olympia” (1863) will be shown in the US for the first time as part of a Met exhibition focused on the joint careers of Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas.