From European paintings to the decorative arts, the patron and her oil tycoon husband, who both served as trustees for decades, gave the New York museum more than 1,275 works in all

Show, timed to spring gala, will analyse “the temporal twists and turns of fashion history”

From Alexandre Singh's dark thriller at Metro Pictures to entrancing etchings at the Met, the best shows to see this Halloween weekend

A Met exhibition explores fraught acquisitions in museum collections with the aim of kickstarting new conversations

Sandra Jackson-Dumont will take over in January as leader of George Lucas’s $1bn project in Los Angeles

From Betye Saar’s mysticism at MoMA to the first retrospective dedicated to conceptual photographer Duane Michals at the Morgan Library and Museum

Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art charts the evolution of etching through Renaissance artists such as Albrecht Dürer and Lucas van Leyden

After being blocked from entering the American Museum of Natural History, decolonisation demonstrators took to the streets, ending at the Metropolitan Museum’s steps

Hoard of objects loaned by Paris's Musée de Cluny to the Metropolitan Museum of Art tells a complex tale

US and Egyptian officials presided over handover at a repatriation ceremony in New York

From the Met’s first façade commission to Jean-Marie Appriou’s surreal equines

Moving from gallery to gallery like a nomadic traveller, the performance artist-in-residence will morph into a series of personae

From the Rubin Museum's meditation on “power” to the Costume Institute's celebration of camp

Exhibitions and events at museums and galleries worldwide proves we are still looney for the Moon 50 years after setting foot on it

We talk about Manga, the subject of the British Museum's huge new show, and we explore the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition Camp: Notes on Fashion. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

The New York museum heads into the second half of 2019 with contemporary art takeovers and a balanced budget

The museum cites recent lawsuits tied to the US opioid crisis in its decision to decline future donations from the family

We caught up with the crowds waiting to spot celebs—particularly Harry Styles—on the red carpet of tonight’s annual Met Gala

Costume Institute's new exhibition Camp: Notes on Fashion examines camp from the 17th century onwards

Brooke Shields and KAWS, elves at the Morgan, plus more art world gossip

Anna Somers Cocks recalls a telling episode in her relations with the Met’s benefactor, who died on 20 April

To prevent similar high-profile losses in the future, the Met should hire a permanent, full-time provenance curator

From Alicja Kwade's rooftop solar system to Joe Minter's commanding sculptures

A reminiscence of the New York socialite, arts patron and philanthropist by Keith Christiansen, the chairman of the Met's European Paintings Department

We talk to Marc Spiegler, global director of Art Basel; discuss the forgotten artist Richard Lin; and speak to the curators of a New York exhibition on the ancient Middle East. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

The New York museum's Heavenly Bodies exhibition came first even though curator “never set out to create a hit”