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Met Museum Will Hire Team to Investigate Looted Art
Following a number of high-profile art seizures by the Manhattan DA, the museum will bring on new staff to conduct provenance research.
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Met Gala Memes for a Meh Gala Theme
If honoring Karl Lagerfeld wasn't awful enough, this year’s theme was also painfully boring.
Opinion
Why Is The Met Gala Honoring an Islamophobe With Nazi Roots?
The Costume Institute is willfully ignoring Karl Lagerfeld’s bigoted views and his family’s concealed Nazi past.
Art
An Ode to South Central LA, Inspired by Ancient Egypt
Lauren Halsey’s monumental installation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art casts a new light on a classic New York City view.
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Report Finds Major Provenance Holes in Met Museum’s Native American Art Collection
About 85% of Native Art objects gifted to the museum by Charles and Valerie Diker lack established ownership histories, according to an investigation by ProPublica.
Opinion
We Need More Nuance When Talking About Repatriation
Patricia Marroquin Norby, the Met Museum’s curator of Native American Art, reflects on the lesser-discussed everyday challenges of repatriation work.
News
Six Perfumes That Capture the Met Museum’s Essence
The new fragrances are compatible with in-room diffusers, so you can now refer to your living room as the Egyptian Gallery.
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Met Museum Repatriates 15 Objects to India
The sculptures were all at one point sold by the disgraced art dealer Subhash Kapoor.
News
Dual Portrait of Old Master Rachel Ruysch Holds a Trove of Secrets
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has just acquired the rare painting, which depicts the Dutch artist at work surrounded by her signature flora.
Art
Hundreds of Artworks by NYC Teenagers Go on View at the Met
The talented seventh through twelfth-grade students are recipients of the 2023 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.
Opinion
Met Museum Kicked Me Out for Praying to My Ancestral Gods
My danced prayer to looted Cambodian antiquities was too much for the New York museum.
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1,000+ Objects at The Met Linked to Antiquities Smugglers
A report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists revealed hundreds of works once owned by people accused of or convicted of antiquities crimes.