The artist talks to Ben Luke about about his influences and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work—from a tutorial with Paula Rego to Hans Haacke’s German pavilion at the Venice Biennale

The 18-month residency includes time to explore the New York museum’s collection and meet with staff and scholars, plus opportunities to work with Vacheron Constantin’s experts in Geneva

The Ethiopian American film-maker Sosena Solomon spent two years making short documentaries about specific heritage sites for the newly reopened wing

Works acquired by Rotterdam’s new Fenix museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and a small Greek island

Collectively valued at $500,000, the Mesopotamian relics are believed to have been looted and at least one was linked to the dealer and suspected trafficker Robin Symes

Patrick Bringley’s Off-Broadway one-man show distils ‘All the Beauty in the World’ into an 80-minute meditation on art, life and human connection

The promised gift from Walther and the Walther Family Foundation includes photographs, albums and time-based works by artists including Malick Sibidé, Ai Weiwei, Thomas Struth, Stephen Shore and others

Kulapat Yantrasast has a design philosophy of “cultural Pad Thai”—multiple perspectives combined into something unique and approachable

Rashid Johnson and Amy Sherald—both currently having solo shows at New York museums—joined more artists and celebrities to celebrate “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style”

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