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

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

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Philippa Kelly and David Clack
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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

Theatrereview

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”