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 ...

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

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 ...

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,” ...

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

The exhibition "Costume Art" celebrates the relationship between fashion and visual art. The announcement has also drawn ...

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 ...

It’s not rare to gaze upon the Met Gala looks each year and think, “Wow, that gown is a work of art.” Now, the 2026 iteration ...

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 ...

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.