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 ...

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 ...

From the Mona Lisa to the American Gothic, these famous paintings don’t just grace museum walls; they offer a glimpse into ...

For a $2 billion undertaking encompassing multiple projects within a 2.1 million-square-foot complex, the people directing the ongoing building efforts at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art talk a ...

“Costume Art,” announced Monday as the next big show at the museum’s Costume Institute — launched by the starry Met Gala in ...

If there’s been one uniting theme of all the blockbuster fashion exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it’s the simple idea that fashion is art.

The Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute will explore the body through fashion and art, with the 2026 exhibit opening ...

August 3: This story has been updated to include comments from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The heat was suffocating on a recent summer afternoon atop the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s roof, where ...