Metropolitan Museum of Art
British artist says the Met ‘should take responsibility’ for dress copyright dispute
Anouska Samms claims a dress she has IP over is included in the museums' costume art exhibition without any credit to her
New York’s Neue Galerie will merge with the Metropolitan Museum
The merger, to be completed in 2028, will bring the Ronald Lauder-founded Neue Galerie’s exceptional holdings of German and Austrian Modern art into the Met’s encyclopaedic collection
Nine shows to see during Frieze New York
Check out our top picks from the many exhibitions taking place across the city
With new Costume Institute exhibition and galleries, the Met makes powerful statement about fashion's place in museums
Featuring nearly 400 objects ranging from gowns to ancient Greek armour and vases, “Costume Art” argues the dressed body is the only form of artistic expression that connects each of the museum’s collecting areas
Metropolitan Museum receives $23m to endow internship programme
The gift, from the foundation of Jennifer Rubio and Stewart Butterfield, is the latest example of donors offering targeted support that goes beyond funding institutional acquisitions
Artists made their mark at 2026 Met Gala
Amy Sherald, Tschabalala Self and Jordan Roth turned heads at the annual benefit for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute
Museum acquisitions round-up: a rediscovered work by Rosso Fiorentino, a circular painting by Salman Toor and 16th-century gold goblet
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
The Met’s blockbuster Raphael exhibition looks beyond the artist’s idealised Madonnas
The show at the New York institution presents a much wider “social and historical context” of motherhood and childhood mortality
Workers at the Metropolitan Museum vote to form union
More than three quarters of eligible employees voted in favour of forming a union with the United Auto Workers, which will represent hundreds of employees
Metropolitan Museum, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and US collector return dozens of antiquities to Turkey
The repatriations are linked to long-running investigations into looting at Bubon and other archaeological sites, as prosecutors in New York step up pressure on museums and collectors
Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman and Venus Williams will co-chair 2026 Met Gala
The celebrity style luminaries will preside over the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute's star-filled fundraiser alongside Anna Wintour
Metropolitan Museum workers launch unionising effort
The new organising effort, with the Local 2110 chapter of the United Auto Workers, would create a union representing around 1,000 employees
Metropolitan Museum's new Condé M. Nast Galleries will put fashion at the forefront
Anna Wintour's efforts to "get out of the basement" have paid off as the Costume Institute prepares to take centre stage
The greatest Cypriot show in Florida: Ringling Museum opens its first permanent ancient-art gallery
The project has been almost 100 years in the making, when one of the Ringling brothers bought thousands of works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and took them home to Sarasota
Indigenous artists transform works at Metropolitan Museum in unsanctioned augmented reality project
The digital interventions by 17 Native artists, launched on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, put pointed twists on works in the museum’s American Wing
Is a Vermeer self-portrait hiding behind his ‘sleeping maid’ at the Met? The museum has provided another clue
The New York institution has supported the claim by pointing to the composition of Nicolaes Maes’s ‘The Naughty Drummer’
Metropolitan Museum gifted 188 Dada and Surrealist works
The promised gift from museum trustee John Pritzker includes pieces by Man Ray, Marcel and Suzanne Duchamp, Jean Arp and others
Must-see exhibitions in New York this autumn
Exhibitions honouring a Native American Modernist, a new generation of photographers and others are on the itinerary
The US’s largest Raphael exhibition is opening at the Met next year
“Raphael: Sublime Poetry” is being curated by Carmen Bambach, who organised the Met’s hugely popular Michelangelo exhibition in 2017-18
Landmark George Morrison show foregrounds Abstract Expressionism’s debt to Native art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosting the largest exhibition to date of works by the late Ojibwe painter
Metropolitan Museum trustee among victims of deadly Manhattan shooting
Wesley LePatner, a senior managing director at the investment firm Blackstone, was elected to the Met’s board in February
A brush with... Hew Locke—podcast
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
Metropolitan Museum and watchmaker Vacheron Constantin launch artist residency
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
New videos of African cultural sites add contemporary context to Rockefeller Wing’s historical artefacts at the Met
The Ethiopian American film-maker Sosena Solomon spent two years making short documentaries about specific heritage sites for the newly reopened wing
Holbein portrait, Inuit print collection and Antony Gormley sculpture: May acquisitions round-up
Works acquired by Rotterdam’s new Fenix museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and a small Greek island
Three ancient artefacts from Metropolitan Museum returned to Iraq
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
Best-selling memoir about being a guard at the Metropolitan Museum takes the stage
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
Metropolitan Museum receives 6,500 works from photography collector Artur Walther
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
Behind the scenes of the Met’s revamped Rockefeller Wing with its acclaimed architect
Kulapat Yantrasast has a design philosophy of “cultural Pad Thai”—multiple perspectives combined into something unique and approachable
On the Met Gala’s Cy Gavin-designed blue carpet, art was front and centre
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”





























