Metropolitan Museum of Art

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”

Trump’s Garden of American Heroes seeks artists for its 250 statues

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

Pope Francis and art, J.M.W. Turner’s 250th birthday, John Singer Sargent’s ‘Madame X’—podcast

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

Diaryblog

The story of the Met’s ‘missing’ Banksy

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

'These strings are connective tissues between points and cultures': Jennie C. Jones on her sonic sculptures on the Metropolitan Museum's roof

The artist's installation on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Roof Garden explores the outer limits of sound and form

Metropolitan Museum repatriates ancient bronze griffin head that was stolen from Greek institution

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

Metropolitan Museum reveals design for new $550m wing for Modern and contemporary art

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

The Big Review | 14th-century Siena is magnificent at the Met ★★★★★

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

The Met will study and catalogue 14 ancient sculptures recently repatriated to Yemen

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

The Met has largely bounced back since the pandemic

While the New York institution has not reached pre-Covid numbers with international visitors, the figures paint a promising picture

V&A beats Met to acquire medieval ivory sculpture of Christ for £2m

The purchase was made possible after an export license for the Romanesque carving was deferred by the UK authorities last year

Kosovar artist Petrit Halilaj leads restoration of cultural centre in home village

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

Fashionreview

At the 2024 Met Gala, the most memorable looks ventured beyond the garden party theme

South African singer Tyla’s sandy Balmain dress was a show-stopper—and not just because she had to be carried up the stairs