Investigators have seized 27 antiquities from the Metropolitan Museum of Art over the last six months, including this marble head of a Greek youth, dated to around 300 to 100 B.C. The Metropolitan ...

It’s not easy to steal from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. There hasn’t been a major robbery at the museum in 40 years. Thanks to its guard force of over 500 people and its hi-tech security systems, ...

YORK CITY. IT’S KNOWN AS FASHION’S BIGGEST NIGHT, WITH SOME OF THE WORLD’S BIGGEST STARS IN ATTENDANCE. BUT JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO, AN IOWA ARTIFACT WAS ON DISPLAY IN THE CITY. KCCI OLIVIA TYLER TELLS ...

Installation view of “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350,” on view Oct. 13, 2024–Jan. 26, 2025 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (photo: Eileen Travell, courtesy of The Met). “Beauty ...

“The Dawn of Egyptian Art” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Apr. 10-Aug. 5, 2012, explores Egyptian civilization before the pharaohs and the codification of hieroglyphics, when this developing ...

Artist Armia Khalil emigrated to the U.S. from Egypt with nothing but $400 and a suitcase of sculpting tools. When his dreams of becoming a professional sculptor didn't work out, he got a job as a ...

Curator Denise Muller revisits a major movement in American art and history for what may be the most celebrated exhibition the institution has seen “This landmark exhibition celebrates the brilliant ...