Meanwhile, Americans of all political stripes disapprove of the president’s cultural takeover while Max Hollein says Trump’s new anti-DEI rules “do not apply” to the Met

Exploring the late pontiff’s deep connection to and impact on visual culture, plus why Turner’s work continues to resonate so strongly today, and the story of Sargent’s most famous painting

The New York museum’s former security head admits to taking the street artist's work after it was illicitly hung on the wall in 2005

The artist's installation on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Roof Garden explores the outer limits of sound and form

Per the terms of the Met’s agreement with the Greek government, the cast-bronze antiquity will return to New York next year for a special exhibition

Designs for the Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing, conceived by the architect Frida Escobedo, show a stepped exterior of latticed limestone

Reuniting the surviving sections of the city’s altarpiece marvel is just the start of this important, beautifully staged show at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art

With the country still in the throes of a civil war, the ancient sculptures were returned by a family in New Zealand but will be temporarily kept in New York

What does “Native Modernism” mean?

While the New York institution has not reached pre-Covid numbers with international visitors, the figures paint a promising picture

The purchase was made possible after an export license for the Romanesque carving was deferred by the UK authorities last year

As the UN holds its first official Srebrenica Genocide Remembrance Day on 11 July, Halilaj is hoping his work reviving the House of Culture in Runik will inspire conversations about heritage lost under Serbian rule

South African singer Tyla’s sandy Balmain dress was a show-stopper—and not just because she had to be carried up the stairs

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is on the hunt for a new social media manager

From a historic Harlem Renaissance show at the Met and MoMA's Joan Jonas retrospective to solo museum debuts for Melissa Cody and Nona Faustine

In a ceremony at the museum, Met director Max Hollein signed a "memorandum of understanding" together with a representative of the Thai cultural ministry

The museum’s latest repatriation comes as it ramps up efforts to audit the provenance of objects in its collection

Our exclusive Visitor Figures 2023 survey shows that many of the world’s leading art museums returned to their pre-pandemic attendance levels. But some, especially in the UK, are still missing millions of visitors

A two-hour rally at the New York museum drew many supportive cheers and honks, plus a handful of antagonistic shouts

More than 150 people have signed onto the letter, which was delivered to museum director and chief executive Max Hollein this week

The artists' forthcoming façade and rooftop installations at the museum will explore the intersections of identity and art history

An export licence has now been deferred a second time to allow the UK museum to raise funds

Decades after sparking protests, the museum takes another pass at presenting Manhattan’s historical centre of Black creativity

The annual benefit gala's theme for this year is "The Garden of Time"; as usual, Vogue editor Anna Wintour will chair the event

An innovative agreement between the Metropolitan Museum, American businessman Leonard N. Stern and the Greek government led to the new display of 161 Cycladic antiquities at the New York museum

The 12th-century walrus ivory sculpture represents “one of the most culturally and aesthetically significant objects” the UK government’s reviewing committee has handled in the past five years

Plus, last Donatello in private hands is sold to Bargello and Courtauld’s Claudette Johnson purchase helps demarginalise Black women

Dick Wolf gives works by Van Gogh, Bronzino and Artemisia Gentileschi to the New York museum

The Gilbert Stuart painting is one of less than 20 versions of the image known to exist