After two years of traveling, “Madame X” — the iconic 1884 portrait by John Singer Sargent — has returned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it’s the star of a new exhibit ,”Sargent and Paris,” ...

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 ...

NEW YORK - A groundbreaking new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens next week. It explores the work of Juan de Pareja, an artist enslaved by Spanish painter Diego Velázquez in the 1600s.

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 ...

Monet, Manet and Morisot are highlights, but also an exhibition of decommissioned historical monuments and a show of ...

Few who see Picasso's "The Actor "at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art know its complicated history. Paul Leffmann, a German Jewish businessman, sold it in 1938. "It used to hang in the home of my ...

U.S. museums are working to accommodate more art and visitors. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the projects come with a $2 billion price tag. By Ted Loos This article is part of the Fine Arts & ...

Growing up in New York—first Brooklyn, then Queens—Lorna was the only child of culture-loving parents (Cuban Jamaican father, African American mother) who took her to concerts and theater and ballet ...

New York is home to some of the world’s strangest museums, where the bizarre and unexpected take center stage. Beyond the ...