The heirs of a Jewish collector who fled Germany in the 1930s claim that well-documented provenance issues with the painting “La cueillette des olives” have been overlooked by the museum and the Greek foundation that now owns it
Some of the works from the collection, which will go on view next year, are featured in the controversial traveling retrospective devoted to Guston
New York’s Met plans a major show opening next May, with some of his greatest landscapes of Provence
A major exhibition next year will survey the artist’s fascination with the undulating trees
The philanthropist Adrienne Arsht is a longtime supporter of the museum and performing arts programmes nationwide
An ongoing investigation into White's collection expects to see more objects repatriated in the future
The Greek state is now the sole owner of the artefacts but all 161 pieces will be on a 25-year loan to the Met from January 2024
Plus, Joan Mitchell and Claude Monet at the Fondation Louis Vuitton and England's Tudors head to New York
Masterpieces amassed in Renaissance England are brought together in an exhibition freed from expectations to tell a “hallowed national narrative”
Breslin, who co-curated the 2022 Whitney Biennial, will oversee the Met’s major expansion project
The suite of sculptures is inspired by works in the museum’s collection with convoluted histories
The exhibition stages works ranging from Dave the Potter in 1834 to contemporary responses by the likes of Theaster Gates and Simone Leigh
The artefacts could be exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art before traveling to Athens
The pieces include paintings by Frederic Leighton, John Everett Millais and Sir Edward Burne-Jones
The two works, given to the museum in the 1990s, were looted from temples in Kathmandu according to recent internal provenance research
Georges Lotfi has been accused of handling the types of materials he helped the police recover and repatriate for years
Hollein, who will add the role to his title after Daniel H. Weiss resigns next year, was the “clear choice”, according to the Met’s board of trustees
The late British artist envisioned that his collection would be acquired by the Ashmolean Museum, which rejected the offer due to provenance concerns
The exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the pair’s first major US survey and will include their signature grid works as well as largely unknown early pieces
The museum initially changed its "pay-as-you-wish" policy in 2018
Weiss, who guided the Met through several major projects and challenges during his tenure, will step down in June 2023
The show offers a thought-provoking and transnational approach to the T-shaped garment
Five objects worth more than €3m have been confiscated by authorities as part of a wide-ranging global investigation involving former Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez
Martinez has been indicted for “complicity of gang fraud and laundering“ of objects purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Louvre Abu Dhabi
Investigation focuses on purchases made by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre Abu Dhabi
The venture, made in collaboration with the World Monuments Fund and several African art and culture scholars, will examine historical sites in sub-Saharan Africa
From Genesis P-Orridge at Pioneer Works to Louise Bourgeois at the Met, our pick of the best exhibitions in the city this week
The Metropolitan Museum’s annual fashion extravaganza drew divergent interpretations of its Gilded Age theme
Dr. Biden joined Anna Wintour and several of the film directors who curated the period rooms of the Metropolitan Museum’s American wing
All you ever wanted to know about Bourgeois, from the artist in her own words to an illustrated book for children—selected by the Hayward Gallery’s Ralph Rugoff and Katie Guggenheim