The museum stands by its ownership of The Actor, which it says was never in the hands of Nazis

The museum's Michelangelo show drew more half a million visitors alone

The art world has yet to tackle issues around works like Picasso’s $115m child-prostitute portrait

As the #MeToo movement grows, US museums find themselves embroiled in ethical dilemmas

An excellent show adds new strands to our understanding of what makes American art uniquely American

Highlights from Souls Grown Deep Foundation acquisition go on show among New York museum's collection

Volume produced for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition of the artist is "a lasting contribution to scholarship"

The Reverend James Martin, a Jesuit priest and author, on what Catholics can take away from the Met’s Heavenly Bodies exhibition

Curator Andrew Bolton’s Costume Institute blockbuster is pointlessly offensive to believers

The museum's annual gala show examines how the Catholic Church’s aesthetics have influenced designers

A gifted manager and fundraiser, he inherits a museum dogged by financial troubles and discontent

From Adrian Piper at MoMA to Radican Women in Brooklyn

Works in new show range from altarpieces to holy effigies believed to perform miracles

The event, launched in 2014, is a unique experience freed from “stage-managed dialogue”, its moderator says

The Pakistani-born, New York-based artist point toward a dream of peaceful communication

The current director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco has both the experience needed to lead the encyclopaedic museum and “real integrity”, says the Met’s president Dan Weiss

Museum’s restoration lifts “grey veil” from final commission by the Renaissance artist Moretto da Brescia

In a recent decision regarding Picasso’s Actor, the courts need to catch up with US government policy on Nazi-looted art

Will New York district attorney’s new unit clean up the antiquities market—or shut it down?

Celebrate Women’s History Month through art, from feminism solving an ancient riddle in Brooklyn to Zoe Leonard's retrospective at the Whitney

New shows at commercial galleries, from emerging names to rediscovered talents

Many visitors responded to the change with a shrug, although some were more critical of the mandatory charge

Indigenous peoples valued luxury objects more as tools of statecraft and for communicating with the divine than for their precious metals

Exhibition on US painter opens at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art before travelling to London

The major loan show is a double whammy in the quality of the works presented and its popularity

The museum’s $25 admission fee discriminates against the non-New Yorkers who subsidise its huge tax privileges