The Metropolitan Museum of Art is being accused of “secretly” selling a Van Gogh masterpiece looted from Jews fleeing the Nazis — and trying to organize a cover-up designed to last for 100 years. The ...

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 ...

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, ...

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,” ...

Picasso paintings. Jasper Johns ale cans. Irving Penn photos. The cosmetics heir created the model for the headline-grabbing donation that museums dream of today. Leonard A. Lauder at his Upper East ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has launched a new online game called Art Links that lets players identify common threads and connections between works of art from the museum collection. The Met ...

NEW YORK – It's fashion's biggest night at the Met Gala. The annual event returned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 5, the first Monday in May. This year's Met ball, an invite-only event ...

New York City, NY – United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2110 has petitioned the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for a Union Election for nearly a thousand full-time and part-time Professional and ...

Editor’s Note: We are revisiting this excerpt from “Art and Crime” by Stefan Koldehoff and Tobias Timm (2022), which recounts how Donald Trump demolished historically significant friezes from New York ...

The Ceremonial House Ceiling, a map of mythical knowledge, had hung a particular way over the Rockefeller Wing for decades. Then the Kwoma people of Papua New Guinea had their say. Detail from the ...