NewsRestitution
The Met will return two Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
The Benin Court plaques donated in 1991 with more than 150 other works, have been deaccessioned, while a third object, an Ife Head offered for purchase, will instead be restituted
Newsdiversity
Exclusive survey: what progress have US museums made on diversity, after a year of racial reckoning?
We asked art institutions around the country about their efforts to diversify their workforces, exhibition programmes, permanent collections and audiences
NewsIndigenous peoples
The Metropolitan Museum installs a plaque on its façade honouring the Lenape people, driven out of their New York City land
Museum says the move is intended to promote “truthful narratives” and promote social change
NewsExhibitions
Met's next Costume Institute show is an exploration of the emotional hues of American fashion
The two-part exhibition invokes the upheaval of the past year and will be accompanied by an "intimate" gala this September and then a more expansive benefit next May
Newscoronavirus
Some New York museums will ramp up to 50% visitor capacity next week under relaxed limits announced by governor
Others welcome the change while scrutinising their Covid-19 safety procedures
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Yayoi Kusama in the Bronx to Alex Da Corte's Big Bird on the Met Roof
BlogDiary
Google honours sesquicentennial of the Met, one year later
PreviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Alice Neel at the Met to an ode to the first Black woman astronaut by Damien Davis
ReviewArt & Technology
A year of viewing art virtually: the best and worst AR and VR work created during the pandemic
Our expert panel of artists and storytellers review extended reality exhibitions and events
InterviewVisitor Figures 2020
Going viral, the right way: what it's like running the world’s best museum social media accounts during a pandemic
We asked the people behind the Royal Academy’s Twitter, the Met’s Instagram, the Uffizi’s TikTok and the Van Gogh Museum’s Facebook account what 2020 was like for them
AnalysisVisitor Figures 2020
Visitor Figures 2020: top 100 art museums revealed as attendance drops by 77% worldwide
The Art Newspaper's annual survey shows how the pandemic had a devastating impact on museums around the world—but there were some silver linings
PreviewExhibitions
Alice Neel, two artists, and an avocado: double portrait one of the highlights of major New York show
The survey at the Metropolitan Museum of Art will shed light on Neel’s recurring subjects, from family members and lovers to the bohemians and activists she collaborated with
NewsAcquisitions
Acquisitions round-up: trio of paintings by Italian artist nun Orsola Maddalena Caccia bequeathed to the Met
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Lorraine O’Grady’s first museum retrospective to Carol Bove’s Met façade commission
ReviewExhibitions
The Big Review: Goya's Graphic Imagination at the Met
This urgent and timely show of the Spanish master's works on paper illuminates the artist’s dim view of humanity and his extraordinary imagination
NewsJacob Lawrence
Travelling Jacob Lawrence show spurs discovery of a second missing painting in New York
Museums now appeal for information on three unlocated panels in the artist’s 1950s “Struggle” series
NewsSculpture
‘They’re kind of impolite’: the artist Carol Bove ruminates on her steel and aluminium sculptures for the Met’s façade
Artist’s installation, delayed for months by Covid-19, playfully engages with the museum’s classical architecture
NewsDeaccessioning
Met director defends move to consider deaccessioning for collections care rather than art purchases
Max Hollein argues that more art will not necessarily be sold, although proceeds can now go to other purposes amid the pandemic financial crisis
NewsInternships
Asserting a quest for more equity, the Met introduces its first crop of fully paid interns
Students talk about their career goals and how being compensated proved to be an incentive
NewsInstallations
‘Absurd’, yet 'deadly serious’: Alex Da Corte will create the Met’s next rooftop installation
Sculptural installation will plumb the possibility of hope amid the devastation of the coronavirus pandemic
FeatureObituaries
Daniel Wolf, collector and lover of the great outdoors who changed the museum world's attitude to photography, has died, aged 65
Formed a peerless photography collection for the J Paul Getty Museum and curated the landmark 1989 Royal Academy exhibition to mark 150 years of the art form
NewsDeaccessioning
Rumbles of dissent emerge over Met’s proposal to expand deaccessioning
As the museum mulls art sales to finance collections care, critics worry that its example could open the floodgates for US art institutions
ReviewArt & Technology
15 minutes of frame time: solve puzzles to bring a (virtual) Met masterpiece into your home
Our expert panel of artists and storytellers review extended reality exhibitions and events
NewsAcquisitions
When everything turned upside down: Georg Baselitz donates six pathbreaking paintings to the Met
Portraits date from 1969, a pivotal point for an artist departing from conventional motifs
NewsUS Capitol riot
‘Shameful vandalism and desecration’ : Met leaders condemn right-wing crowd's assault on US Capitol
Museum joins other institutions in assailing protestors' rampage and hate-inspiring imagery as a threat to democracy and equality
BlogDiary
The Met invites you to play a game, and then ‘borrow’ a work of art
FeatureCoronavirus resources
Locked down with kids? Check out these arty resources to keep them entertained and educated
Organisations and museums offer plenty of online art projects for parents
NewsOpenings
Art in 2021—treats include Dürer blockbuster, new Munch museum and Caravaggio anniversary
Influential works by Duchamp, Picasso and Mondrian also celebrate centenary this year
NewsMuseums
Acquisitions round-up—Fondation Beyeler gets a frosty Fischli/Weiss snowman
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections
FeatureMedia & broadcast
The top five YouTube channels for an art fix this Christmas season
While many museums across the globe remain closed, you can still get through the virtual doors via video—from artist interviews to archival gems
NewsMuseums
Why US museums are quietly buying art—and downplaying their acquisitions—in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic
Though many institutions are suffering from serious reductions in revenue, collections expanded via restricted acquisition funds
NewsAcquisitions
Ronald Lauder presents major gift of European arms and armour to the Met
Describing the donation as the most significant to the department in nearly 80 years, museum will rename galleries after Lauder
NewsNagorno-Karabakh
Metropolitan Museum of Art appeals for protection of cultural heritage sites in Nagorno-Karabakh
Plea comes as Azerbaijan moves to take control of swaths of territory under a Russian-brokered peace deal
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Unesco under fire for using Met objects in anti-trafficking campaign
Advertisements said that the works were looted in recent years, but Met documentation shows that they have a much longer provenance
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Metropolitan Museum board appoints first woman co-chair
Candace Beinecke and Hamilton James will lead the trustees
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Abigail DeVille's freedom torch at Madison Square Park to new marble sculptures by Sanford Biggers at Marianne Boesky
PreviewExhibitions
See 150 years of fashion in 60 minutes at the Met
The museum has drawn on the writings of Virginia Woolf, and the theories of Charles Baudelaire and Henri Bergson, to create a disruptive timeline of fashion
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From UOVO Prize winner John Edmonds at the Brooklyn Museum to Michelangelo Pistoletto at Lévy Gorvy
NewsJacob Lawrence
Missing for decades, a Jacob Lawrence painting surfaces in response to a Met exhibition
A visitor makes the connection between the artist’s Struggle series and a work in a neighbour’s home
NewsAcquisitions
The Met acquires Kent Monkman's grand diptych Mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People)
The Cree artist says the work, on view in the museum's Great Hall, reflects on the “colonial version of history” in museum collections
NewsMuseum architecture
Space race: how the pandemic is pushing museums to rethink design
Experts predict bigger galleries, a stronger connection to the outdoors and an end to the expansion juggernaut
ReviewArt & Technology
Zemí Cohoba Stand: an AR experience with exceptional 3D modelling from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
An expert view brought to you by our XR Panel of artists and storytellers who create in virtual reality and augmented reality
BlogBook Club
Can’t make it to the Met? Dive into a new book for an unconventional look at the museum's collection
Publication aims to open up 6,000 years of art history using objects as a springboard—but is it worth the effort?
BlogThe Insiders
Letting the art, and the visitors, breathe: a Covid-conscious Met and MoMA return from lockdown
Anxiety gives way to enlightenment as museums spring back to life
NewsExhibitions
Brisbane lands mammoth European loan exhibition from the Met
Gallery of Modern Art is sole venue for a show resulting partly from a skylight renovation project at the New York museum
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York, London and online this weekend
From Jacob Lawrence's Struggle series at the Met to Edmund de Waal's library of exiled authors at the British Museum
Newsreopenings
New York clears the way for the city's museums to reopen
MoMA, the Whitney, the Morgan, the American Folk Art Museum, the New Museum, the Guggenheim and the Brooklyn Museum announce plans to welcome the public, joining the Met and the New-York Historical Society
Newslayoffs
Met lays off 79 more employees and furloughs 181, as it faces a ‘very different’ financial picture
Museum hoped to reopen on 29 August but the prospect remains uncertain amid coronavirus restrictions
NewsPhilanthropy
Metropolitan Museum of Art commits to paying all interns after $5m gift
Adrienne Arsht's donation will fund the museum’s internship programme and the MetLiveArts performance series
NewsMuseums & Heritage
New York's Frick Collection will open at Madison Avenue location in early 2021
After the Met vacates the Breuer building, the Frick will take over with a chronological presentation of masterworks
NewsMuseums
The Metropolitan Museum of Art to reopen five days a week beginning in August
A bellwether for the New York's other museums, the 5th Avenue flagship location will operate at 25% capacity while the Met Cloisters will not open until September
AnalysisBlack Lives Matter
Reform or reset? How cultural institutions are facing a reckoning over racism
US and UK museums have been accused of tokenism, hypocrisy and fake solidarity for rushing to declare support for Black Lives Matter. Where do they go from here?
Newsreopenings
Met plans to reopen flagship building on 29 August after five-month shutdown
Other New York museums are expected to follow its lead, but it all depends on the city entering Phase 4 of reopening
NewsAntiquities
Former Louvre curator among five arrested in Paris in antiquities trafficking investigation
Case involves "hundreds of objects worth millions" looted from the Near and Middle East
NewsProtests
Protest letter urges New York art institutions to rectify ‘egregious acts’ rooted in white supremacy
Signatories cite “unfair practices”, unequal pay and lack of diversity
NewsIndigenous art
Kent Monkman issues apology for painting that depicts the 'sexual assault' of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
After outcries against the work on social media, the Cree artist says that the image "failed" in its message to address the victimisation of Indigenous women
InterviewSocial media
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has gained almost 200,000 social media followers since lockdown began—here's how
We speak to the museum's social media manager Claire Lanier about her digital engagement strategies in the age of Covid-19
BlogDiary
Wear art inspired by the Met Museum—take the #MetMaskChallenge
Newscoronavirus
The Met will not reopen until mid-August at the earliest
The museum also cancels tours, talks, concerts and events through the end of the year
NewsArt & Technology
With a haunting sculpture, the Met expands its push into augmented reality
Curator provides audio narration for 3D experience of a Taíno religious figure
NewsConservation & Preservation
The master's hand: a treasured Vermeer gives up its secrets
Extensive testing of the Frick’s Mistress and Maid proves that it was not finished by someone else
NewsMet Gala
With its May gala derailed, the Met offers entertainment for online visitors
Museum provides a preview of its delayed Costume Institute exhibition, posts video of gala highlights and invites audiences to photograph themselves in red-carpet attire
AnalysisMuseums & Heritage
'There is no fast track back to normal': museums confront economic fallout of the pandemic
Closed museums are losing millions in income, ushering in job cuts, appeals for emergency relief and lasting changes in strategy
Newscoronavirus
Met lays off 81 staff members in response to projected budget shortfall
Cuts affect employees in visitor services and retail departments, and more job losses are expected
NewsMuseums & Heritage
New York’s Met renounces ‘outdated’ divisions of encyclopaedic museums for its 150th anniversary
Awaiting reopening, the institution’s birthday displays reveal the interconnectedness of world cultures
AnalysisVisitor Figures 2019
What were the most visited ticketed shows in London, Paris and New York last year?
Londoners stuck to the tried-and-tested and New Yorkers showed their patriotic sides, while Parisians were drawn in by golden treasures
Newscoronavirus
Met anticipates a $100m shortfall and remaining closed until July—and smaller museums in the US could be hurt even more by pandemic
“Everyone is really whipsawed,” says the New York institution’s president Daniel Weiss, who expects staff reductions
NewsAcquisitions
Met adds Clara Peeters still-life to its petit bouquet of works by early women painters
The Flemish painter was at the top of the museum’s wish list and helps fill a large gender gap in the collection
Newscoronavirus
Led by Metropolitan Museum of Art, a flurry of US museums say they are shutting down because of coronavirus
Institutions in New York, Boston and Washington underline the need to control the spread of Covid-19
NewsMuseums
Several US museums restrict staff travel to high-risk countries in response to coronavirus
Institutions like the National Gallery of Art and the Guggenheim remain open but alert to potential for closing as confirmed cases of Covid-19 rise
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the Met Breuer’s final exhibition, devoted to Gerhard Richter, to Jonathan Berger’s love letters at Participant Inc
ReviewBook Shorts
A beautiful compendium of Early Modern scientific instruments
This exhibition catalogue shows European technological discoveries from the 16th to the 19th century
ReviewBooks
Despite its 'hybrid' approach, the Met's catalogue on French painting lacks detailed analysis
When used together, the New York museum’s print catalogue and supplementary website on their 18th-century French works make an excellent initial resource but offer little new information
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Cauleen Smith’s feminist films at the Whitney to Rodney McMillian’s conceptual landscapes at Petzel Gallery
PreviewMuseums & Heritage
In the Met’s British galleries, a tale of artisans spurred by entrepreneurial forces
Installation weaves a 400-year narrative with global and sometimes dark threads
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the first US retrospective devoted to the pioneering female photographer Madame d’Ora to an immersive Joan Miró experience at Acquavella Galleries
ReviewExhibitions
The Big Review: Kent Monkman at the Met
The latest commission for the Met's Great Hall continues the New York institution's upending of the colonial-settler narrative of American history
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the Morgan’s ode to the French symbolist Alfred Jarry to overlooked paintings by a feminist pioneer at James Fuentes Gallery
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Thomas Campbell, former Met director, sizes up challenges for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
After more than a year in his new job, we interview the director about his priorities
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From a sweeping survey of American Indian contemporary art to historical photographs at the Met
NewsMuseums
The Met’s British galleries are radically reimagined for museum's 150th anniversary
Lead curator says relaunch next spring is timely as "the UK is reassessing its role on the European and global stage”
PreviewThe Year Ahead 2020
The biggest exhibitions around the world in 2020
From Artemisia to Abramović, Old Masters to Olmecs, and Richter to Roman antiquities—here are next year's must-see shows
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Kent Monkman’s Met commission to radiant 1960s paintings at the Guggenheim
NewsThe Year in Review 2019
From the MoMA expansion to ‘artwashing’ ill-gotten wealth: the major museum moments of 2019
We look back at the biggest stories of the year
NewsSackler family
Nan Goldin brings first PAIN protest to the UK, storming the Victoria and Albert Museum
Demonstrators demand that V&A director Tristram Hunt drops Sackler name
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Rachel Feinstein’s first survey at The Jewish Museum to a superlative collection of drawings and prints at the Met
NewsAcquisitions
Jayne Wrightsman leaves over 375 works of art and $80m to the Met
From European paintings to the decorative arts, the patron and her oil tycoon husband, who both served as trustees for decades, gave the New York museum more than 1,275 works in all
NewsExhibitions
Met Costume Institute plans exhibition keyed to the museum’s 150th anniversary
Show, timed to spring gala, will analyse “the temporal twists and turns of fashion history”
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Alexandre Singh's dark thriller at Metro Pictures to entrancing etchings at the Met, the best shows to see this Halloween weekend
PreviewAntiquities & Archaeology
Invoking his own great-grandfather, an artist considers the fragmented history of Syrian artefacts
A Met exhibition explores fraught acquisitions in museum collections with the aim of kickstarting new conversations
NewsMuseums
Lucas Museum names a Met department chairman as its new director
Sandra Jackson-Dumont will take over in January as leader of George Lucas’s $1bn project in Los Angeles
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Betye Saar’s mysticism at MoMA to the first retrospective dedicated to conceptual photographer Duane Michals at the Morgan Library and Museum
PreviewExhibitions
How a method of armour decorating in 16th-century Germany spawned a new printmaking technique
Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art charts the evolution of etching through Renaissance artists such as Albrecht Dürer and Lucas van Leyden
CommentLaw
The US Supreme Court’s silence on Nazi art theft fails Holocaust survivors
Last week’s decision to reject an appeal over the ownership of Picasso’s The Actor was a missed opportunity to clarify the limitations of the 2016 HEAR Act
Sam P. Israel