Metropolitan Museum of Art
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”
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
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 late Dakota artist Mary Sully in four key works at the Metropolitan Museum
What does “Native Modernism” mean?
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
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
One of the biggest social media jobs in the art world is now up for grabs
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is on the hunt for a new social media manager
Fifteen exhibitions to see in New York this spring
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