Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum lines up three major contemporary art commissions for 2024
Petrit Halilaj, Lee Bul and Tong Yang-Tze have been chosen to complete new projects at one of the most visited museums in the US
The Big Review: Africa & Byzantium at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ★★★★☆
An array of artefacts show how cultural cross-pollination thrived across centuries and continents under Byzantine rule
Frieze turns 20: what's next for the popular art fair?
Plus, we speak to the artist Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir, who will be representing Iceland in Venice next year, and pick a work from the Matisse show at the Metropolitan Museum in New York
Metropolitan Museum returns two sculptures to Nepal
The artworks include an 11th-century stone sculpture donated by a relative of a longtime curator of Asian art at the Met
Metropolitan Museum to transform its largest retail space into a gallery
The Met’s main store, just off its great hall, will be relocated to ground level, in part to accommodate the museum’s hugely popular Costume Institute exhibitions
Acquisitions round-up: Paula Rego abortion etchings acquired by New York's MoMA and Metropolitan Museum of Art
Plus, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco gain a major collection of American art and the Rijksmuseum acquires recently restituted silver salt cellars
The Met and Yemeni government reach agreement for long-term display and care of two ancient sculptures
The artefacts, dating from the third millenium BC, will remain in New York as Yemen’s civil war drags on
Nairy Baghramian's playful forms grace the facade of New York's Metropolitan Museum
The artist is the fourth to receive the museum's commission to install work on the Fifth Avenue entrance of its Neoclassical building
Ten exhibitions to see in New York City this autumn
From large-scale surveys of Judy Chicago and Ed Ruscha, to showcases of Barkley L. Hendricks’s portraits, Ruth Asawa’s works on paper, Shary Boyle’s surreal ceramics, Korean experimental art and more
The Metropolitan Museum plans major Harlem Renaissance exhibition
The show will focus on the movement’s influences on Modernism on both sides of the Atlantic
Acquisitions round-up: London museums jointly purchase pre-Raphaelite painting that depicts Jamaican woman
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
New augmented reality app turns objects at the Metropolitan Museum into digital gaming accessories
The app, Replica, is a partnership with Verizon that lets visitors deploy works from the museum’s collection in the popular game Roblox
Climate activists, protesting against federal charges against their colleagues, rally at the Metropolitan Museum
Joanna Smith and Tim Martin face up to five years in prison after smearing paint on the case and pedestal of a Degas sculpture at the National Gallery of Art
Arise Joe Scotland—Studio Voltaire supremo bags a King’s Birthday honour
Joe Scotland is made an MBE while Deborah Swallow of the Courtauld and Andrew Bolton at the Met are also recognised
Metropolitan Museum to open interactive learning centre for children in September
The new facility will bring science-based material exploration, art activities and countless forms of play to the museum's youngest patrons
Wildfire smoke in New York shuts down art world events
Hazardous air blowing smoke into the city from fires in Canada pressed cultural institutions and art spaces to close or postpone events
Metropolitan Museum to return $550,000 in donations from FTX, the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange
The institution will return funds donated by the defunct exchange and hedge fund led by Sam Bankman-Fried prior to its untimely collapse
New York mayor declares 31 May as Ellsworth Kelly Day in honour of artist's centennary
The artist's 100th birthday coincides with an array of exhibition programming, celebrations and municipal recognitions of Kelly's legacy
Two looted antiquities seized in New York will be returned to Iraq
The figurines, which were looted from the ancient city of Uruk, belong to one of the oldest civilisations on earth
Van Gogh’s cypresses are the focus of an exhibition opening at the Met in New York
How the flamelike trees came to rival the sunflowers as a signature motif
How Cecily Brown breathed life back into painting for a new generation
Brown's survey exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art brings fresh eyes to a time-tested medium
Twelve must-see exhibitions in New York during Frieze
From Lauren Halsey's new commission for the Met rooftop to funkily subversive sculptures at the Museum of Arts and Design, the season's essential exhibitions
Amid mounting scrutiny of its collecting practices, Metropolitan Museum will form provenance research squad
The museum has responded to accusations that its collection includes looted artefacts by creating its largest research arm to date
The Met's Vermeer may contain a hidden self-portrait of the artist at work
X-ray technology has revealed that a hidden man in the background of 'A Maid Asleep' is holding a paintbrush
Artist Willie Cole claims the Met Gala’s chandeliers were a ‘blatant rip off’ of his sculptures
The chandeliers made from repurposed plastic bottles are similar to sculptures Cole has been making and showing for a decade
The good, the bad and the furry at the Karl Lagerfeld-themed Met Gala
The red carpet delivered countless interpretations of the late designer’s iconic wardrobe and his treasured Birman cat, Choupette
Silk camellias and bathroom tiles: Karl Lagerfeld’s designs and influences unveiled in Met (fashion) show
The fashion designer’s fantastical sketches are given equal billing with the dresses that made him famous
Lauren Halsey's Metropolitan Museum rooftop commission: a pharaonic temple merging ancient Egypt with Los Angeles
For the New York installation, the Californian artist has carved onto a concrete pavilion references to Afrofuturism and funk music and images of her family and friends
The Metropolitan Museum’s great hall to be transformed by kaleidoscopic Jacolby Satterwhite video installation
The artist has been commissioned to create a work for the museum’s main entryway that will incorporate 3D scans of more than 100 objects in the Met’s collection
Art market wobble: what happens if banks go bust?
Plus, hip hop in Baltimore and Juan de Pareja, the artist enslaved by Velázquez