The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced a lineup of newly developed content to complement its existing selection of online materials, offering audiences at home the opportunity to engage with…
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Major and minor museums and galleries around the world are shuttered for the foreseeable future to ensure the safety of both staff and visitors. Luckily, even when their doors are closed, there are…
As a highlight of its 150th anniversary celebration, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art this month unveiled the results of a $22 million renovation of the 10 rooms that make up the Galleries for…
Until recently there was a sense that Diane Arbus’ landmark photography, which was not extensively exhibited during her lifetime, sprung fully formed into existence, rather than through thoughtful…
The Met announced today the acquisition of the monumental sculptural relief Two Horses (2019) by American artist Charles Ray (b. 1953).
Despite the importance and innovation of this work, Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey’s legacy has long been obscure.
Sumptuously shot in richly contrasting black and white, this lyrical series of vignettes provides a window into the hidden workings of the Museum. Employees punch time clocks;…
David Hockney's comprehensive retrospective at the Met showed what style means in modernism, and in particular what it means to Hockney, demonstrating the artist's originality as well as his…
The western Sahel—a vast region in Africa just south of the Sahara Desert that spans what is today Senegal, Mali, Mauritania, and was the birthplace of a succession of influential polities. Fueled…
Arte del mar: Artistic Exchange in the Caribbean presents a stunning narrative of creativity from the ancestral cultures that encircled the Caribbean Sea in the millennia before European…
The mahout (elephant keeper), the turbaned Ottoman warriors, and the crowning crescent all allude to the Eastern origins of the elephant.
Making Marvels is the first exhibition in North America to highlight the important conjunction of art, science, and technology with entertainment and display that was essential to European court…
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced that The Costume Institute’s spring 2020 exhibition will be About Time: Fashion and Duration, on view from May 7 through September 7, 2020.
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Curator-in-Charge of the Met Department of Arms and Armor Pierre Terjanian takes an absolutely out of his mind Adam Savage through the museum's historic and…
Exploring the history of St Michael Defeating the Devil by the Master of Belmonte from 1450-1500.
