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

City residents and students from New Jersey and Connecticut will still be able to pay what they wish

She was the first living woman to have a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York institutions are accessing equipment and expertise thanks to $2m, six-year grant

Metropolitan Museum of Art reassembles 16th-century silver table ornaments for first time in two centuries

We look back at some of most important purchases and donations that entered public collections this year

Controversy provides "opportunity for conversation", museum says

From a divine Renaissance man to Indian Modernists

How the New York museum is leading the way in conserving half a millennium of style

An exhibition on post-war art proves a little too ambitious

After nearly 30 years at the museum, antiquities expert Carlos Picón will head dealer’s new US venture

Search committee conducted "broad outreach" inside and outside the museum to define future leader’s desired traits

Costume play and urban decay through the lens of the master

'Age of Empires' explores the art of the Qin and Han dynasties

The Metropolitan Museum may not be the last institution to return looted sculptures