NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the "computer cowgirl" Gretchen Bender to Girault de Prangey's haunting snapshots of the past
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From a meditation on power to female sexual awakening
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From a view of the West from China, to Carol Rama's weird works made with dolls eyes
NewsMuseums
Met receives donation of ten ‘exceptional’ colonial Latin American works out of the blue
The São Paulo collector James Kung Wei Li, whose father was a Chinese ambassador in South America, says the donation is his family’s repayment for American educational largesse
NewsRestitution
Met hands over an Egyptian coffin that it says was looted
Describing itself as a victim of fraud, museum says it cooperated with district attorney's investigation
NewsControversies
Nan Goldin’s anti-opioid activist group storms New York museums
Pain held demonstrations at the Guggenheim and the Met over the weekend
BlogIn the frame
Mamma Mia—Cher’s gorgeous garments are set for The Met
NewsMuseums
Met unveils its AI experiment with Microsoft and MIT
Teams produce five digital prototypes for acquainting people with images of museum objects online
PreviewExhibitions
Lucio Fontana survey shows how sculpture sowed seeds for artist's slashing series
Exhibition at the Met Breuer argues that the Italian-Argentinian's early sculptures and decorative pieces inspired his works to come
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From cross-cultural pollination in Armenia's Christian art to a pagan awakening
NewsMuseums & Heritage
The Met looks back at Max Hollein’s first 100 days as director—and forward to its 150th birthday
The museum will mark its anniversary in 2020 by launching a renovation of the Rockefeller Wing and celebrating its permanent collection
NewsMuseums & Heritage
In a Met protest, an artist posts her own labels next to a Picasso and Gauguin
She calls on museum to incorporate misogyny into the art historical narrative
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Native American group denounces Met’s exhibition of indigenous objects
The Association on American Indian Affairs says the "first mistake was to call these objects art" and that tribal representatives should have been consulted
NewsAppointments
Director swap: former Met chief Thomas Campbell succeeds Max Hollein at Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Hollein took Campbell's old job as director of the Met
NewsConservation
Alaskan dancer helps the Met solve riddle of the Yup’ik mask
Conservator calls in master storyteller to decipher shamanic object
BlogIn the frame
Camp moves from the margins to the Met in the next Costume Institute show
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
Be dazzled by Mary Corse's light at the Whitney or catch the Met's Heavenly Bodies before it closes
PreviewExhibitions
Metropolitan Museum of Art reclassifies status of Native American art for new exhibition
Donor of artefacts asked New York museum to present them as "American art rather than tribal art"
NewsPodcast
'Tragic with great rays of sunshine': New York's Metropolitan Museum brings Armenia to the fore
In this week's podcast, curator Helen C. Evans tells a story of cross-pollination across 14 centuries
NewsMuseums
Met plans to leave Breuer building, making way for the Frick
The Brutalist structure will house Frick’s historic collection during expansion of its 70th Street home
BlogDiary
Why the Met’s Delacroix show seems both glorious—and irrelevant
NewsLaw
Legal battle over Met's famous Picasso reignited by estate
The museum stands by its ownership of The Actor, which it says was never in the hands of Nazis
BlogDiary of an art historian
Do not allow art to cleanse crimes
The art world has yet to tackle issues around works like Picasso’s $115m child-prostitute portrait
ReviewExhibitions
The Met unpacks its Souls Grown Deep gift
An excellent show add new strands to our understanding of what makes American art uniquely American
PreviewExhibitions
Jackson Pollock and Thornton Dial given equal billing in Met exhibition
Highlights from Souls Grown Deep Foundation acquisition go on show among New York museum's collection
BlogLinda on the loose
The Met’s Heavenly Bodies is an exhibition desperate for a halo
CommentExhibitions
‘How can we judge a work of art that was inspired by a person’s faith?’
The Reverend James Martin, a Jesuit priest and author, on what Catholics can take away from the Met’s Heavenly Bodies exhibition
CommentExhibitions
Is nothing sacred? The Metropolitan Museum should apologise to the Vatican for Heavenly Bodies show
Curator Andrew Bolton’s Costume Institute blockbuster is pointlessly offensive to believers
NewsMuseums
Road to the Met: how Max Hollein rose to become its next director
A gifted manager and fundraiser, he inherits a museum dogged by financial troubles and discontent
PreviewExhibitions
Cross-border collaboration brings Mexican miracles to the Met
Works in new show range from altarpieces to holy effigies believed to perform miracles
NewsMuseums
Met hosts group of international directors for the Global Museum Leaders Colloquium
The event, launched in 2014, is a unique experience freed from “stage-managed dialogue”, moderator says
NewsExhibitions
Huma Bhabha’s alien visitors land on the Met’s roof
The Pakistani-born, New York-based artist point toward a dream of peaceful communication
NewsConservation
The Met resurrects Italian Old Master’s Entombment
Museum’s restoration lifts “grey veil” from final commission by the Renaissance artist Moretto da Brescia
CommentMuseums
Two steps forward, one step back for Holocaust restitution
In a recent decision regarding Picasso’s Actor, the courts need to catch up with US government policy on Nazi-looted art
BlogIn the frame
Make some noise! Met reopens musical instrument galleries
NewsArt market
Tough new scrutiny by district attorney rattles New York antiquities trade
Will New York district attorney’s new unit clean up the antiquities market—or shut it down?
NewsThree to see
Three to see: New York
Celebrate Women’s History Month through art, from feminism solving an ancient riddle in Brooklyn to Zoe Leonard's retrospective at the Whitney
NewsArt market
Private View: our pick of March gallery shows
New shows at commercial galleries, from emerging names to rediscovered talents
NewsMuseums
The Met's new admissions fee goes into effect
Many visitors responded to the change with a shrug, although some were more critical of the mandatory charge
PreviewExhibitions
A golden age in the Americas when even artists were 'spoils of war'
Indigenous peoples valued luxury objects more as tools of statecraft and for communicating with the divine than for their precious metals
ReviewExhibitions
Half a million visitors can’t be wrong: the Met’s Michelangelo show is the cultural event of the year
The major loan show is a doubly whammy in the quality of the works presented and its popularity
NewsMuseums
New York’s Metropolitan Museum to charge out-of-town visitors
City residents and students from New Jersey and Connecticut will still be able to pay what they wish
NewsObituaries
Pioneering US artist Betty Woodman dies aged 87
She was the first living woman to have a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
NewsMuseums
The Met decides not to pull 'sexually suggestive' Balthus painting after petition signed by thousands
Controversy provides "opportunity for conversation", museum says
NewsThree to see
Three to see: New York
From a divine Renaissance man to Indian Modernists
BlogIn the frame
Met’s mascot William marks 100 years at the museum
NewsConservation
Behind the seams at the Met’s Costume Institute
How the New York museum is leading the way in conserving half a millennium of style
ReviewExhibitions
Fever dreams: on Delirious at the Met Breuer
An exhibition on post-war art proves a little too ambitious
NewsMuseums
Metropolitan Museum of Art finalises job description for director search
Search committee conducted "broad outreach" inside and outside the museum to define future leader’s desired traits
CommentAntiquities & Archaeology
The Met’s antiquated views of antiquities need updating
The new Greek and Roman curator at New York’s Metropolitan Museum should rejuvenate its displays with honest, better stories
Elizabeth Marlowe