Metropolitan Museum of Art
Extract | When the Picasso was almost knocked off the wall during a blockbuster show
A new memoir by Patrick Bringley details what it was like to work as a guard at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art
Russian or Ukrainian? Museums update Kazimir Malevich's nationality
The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam now describes the abstract painter as Ukrainian, while The Met reclassifies other painters who were born or worked in the country
Nigeria’s pivotal election: what's the future of art and culture in the country?
Plus, the Met: a guard’s memoir and Hubert Robert at Stockholm's Nationalmuseum
Authorities in New York return 14 looted artefacts valued at $2.5m to Italy, including a black-figure hydria by the renowned Priam Painter
The repatriated artefacts were looted by an international network of “high-profile antiquities traffickers and smugglers, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s office
Was Van Gogh's olive grove landscape another Nazi-era 'forced sale'?
We uncover the tangled tale of the painting controversially sold off by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1972 and now in an Athens museum
Groups in Guatemala demand return of Maya throne sent to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art
Guatemalan law prohibits the export of such artefacts for exhibition, local culture organisations say
Van Gogh in 2023: a bumper year of exhibitions, openings, books and an Amsterdam birthday party
The Van Gogh Museum is celebrating its 50th anniversary—and everyone is invited
Did the Metropolitan Museum cover up its acquisition of a Nazi-looted Van Gogh? A new lawsuit alleges so
The heirs of a Jewish collector who fled Germany in the 1930s claim that well-documented provenance issues with the painting “La cueillette des olives” have been overlooked by the museum and the Greek foundation that now owns it
Philip Guston’s daughter donates 220 of his works and $10m to the Metropolitan Museum
Some of the works from the collection, which will go on view next year, are featured in the controversial traveling retrospective devoted to Guston
Van Gogh’s cypresses, a sequel to the sunflowers
New York’s Met plans a major show opening next May, with some of his greatest landscapes of Provence
Metropolitan Museum show to reunite two Van Gogh masterpieces after 120 years apart
A major exhibition next year will survey the artist’s fascination with the undulating trees
Metropolitan Museum receives $10m donation for ongoing performance art initiative
The philanthropist Adrienne Arsht is a longtime supporter of the museum and performing arts programmes nationwide
Looted antiquities returned to Turkey and Italy were seized from New York home of Met trustee Shelby White
An ongoing investigation into White's collection expects to see more objects repatriated in the future
American billionaire's Cycladic antiquities collection unveiled in Athens as Greece and Metropolitan Museum of Art reach agreement
The Greek state is now the sole owner of the artefacts but all 161 pieces will be on a 25-year loan to the Met from January 2024
Van Dyck or copies? The curious case of the socialite, the scholar and the Old Masters
Plus, Joan Mitchell and Claude Monet at the Fondation Louis Vuitton and England's Tudors head to New York
A glorious show of Tudor royal splendour to open at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art
Masterpieces amassed in Renaissance England are brought together in an exhibition freed from expectations to tell a “hallowed national narrative”
Whitney curator David Breslin appointed to lead Metropolitan Museum’s Modern and contemporary art department
Breslin, who co-curated the 2022 Whitney Biennial, will oversee the Met’s major expansion project
Hew Locke covers Met Museum with golden trophies inspired by colonial looting
The suite of sculptures is inspired by works in the museum’s collection with convoluted histories
Subversive ceramics by enslaved Black potters go on show at New York's Met Museum
The exhibition stages works ranging from Dave the Potter in 1834 to contemporary responses by the likes of Theaster Gates and Simone Leigh
Greek artefacts from American billionaire's collection will be returned pending exchange agreement
The artefacts could be exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art before traveling to Athens
Metropolitan Museum to exhibit masterpieces from Puerto Rican museum struck by earthquake
The pieces include paintings by Frederic Leighton, John Everett Millais and Sir Edward Burne-Jones
The Metropolitan Museum returns two looted artefacts to Nepal
The two works, given to the museum in the 1990s, were looted from temples in Kathmandu according to recent internal provenance research
Arrest warrant issued for dealer who sold ‘hundreds’ of looted Middle East antiquities—some of which ended up in the Met
Georges Lotfi has been accused of handling the types of materials he helped the police recover and repatriate for years
Metropolitan Museum director Max Hollein to take on dual role of director and chief executive
Hollein, who will add the role to his title after Daniel H. Weiss resigns next year, was the “clear choice”, according to the Met’s board of trustees
The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquires rejected Howard Hodgkin collection of Indian art
The late British artist envisioned that his collection would be acquired by the Ashmolean Museum, which rejected the offer due to provenance concerns
Bernd and Hilla Becher, photography giants of the Düsseldorf School, emerge from the shadows in New York show
The exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the pair’s first major US survey and will include their signature grid works as well as largely unknown early pieces
Metropolitan Museum of Art increases admission fee
The museum initially changed its "pay-as-you-wish" policy in 2018
Daniel H. Weiss will step down as president and chief executive of the Metropolitan Museum
Weiss, who guided the Met through several major projects and challenges during his tenure, will step down in June 2023
Met exhibition frames the kimono as a global transmitter of style, beyond national costume
The show offers a thought-provoking and transnational approach to the T-shaped garment
Egyptian antiquities connected to international trafficking ring seized from Metropolitan Museum in New York
Five objects worth more than €3m have been confiscated by authorities as part of a wide-ranging global investigation involving former Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez