Beloved in Finland, Helene Schjerfbeck is just becoming hot in Manhattan, where a show of paintings at the Met Museum is likely to leave you awe-struck.

Discover the greatest little-known facts about the famous museum. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo by G. Scott Segler, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. For ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened in 1872, but it was at the turn of the 20th century that it found its voice. Reaping the immense wealth in the hands of philanthropists, the museum began to ...

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is making all public domain works in its collection available online for both scholarly and commercial purposes, it announced today. The new Open Access policy ...

On clear evenings in the late spring, when the sun hangs for just a bit longer over Central Park, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is dipped in gold, an atmosphere in full effect at the inaugural ...

“So much has changed in just a year,” says Claire Lanier, the Metropolitan Museum in New York’s social media manager, who has just celebrated her one-year anniversary on the job—in quarantine. In ...

Call it the meeting of a long-dead mentor and his namesake, hundreds of years later and in ninja turtle form. Michelangelo, the fictional Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, was spotted above ground in New ...

A petition to cease displaying a provocative painting by a major artist on the walls of New York’s Metropolitan Museum has struck a raw nerve at a moment when US society is publicly, painfully ...

Robin Givhan on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibit, “Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations” Plus, read our interview with Miucci Prada herself. “Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible ...

The repatriations are linked to long-running investigations into looting at Bubon and other archaeological sites, as ...