Hovering above the heads of visitors to the library are painted female figures who represent religion, philosophy, science, and art. Reliefs on the ceiling depict gods and goddesses such as Venus ...

Douglas Newton, then the curator of the Museum of Primitive Art in New York, established by Nelson A. Rockefeller on West 54th Street in Manhattan, commissioned the ceiling in 1970, after the Met ...

For this 2024 painting, Mullen reproduced the cover of an issue of Sculpture magazine which featured a photograph of a performance by artist Beili Liu with scissors hanging from the ceiling.

For nearly 80 years, a well-worn but well-loved work of art adorned the third-floor ceiling of a New York City high school. The mural – a shimmering night sky with golden-yellow stars – is a ...

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has refused to remove a 1938 painting by the artist known as Balthus that depicts a young girl in what some are saying is a sexually suggestive pose. The painting ...

The NYC museum and research library has long been a sight -- but until the completion of a $13 million renovation, its outdoor spaces weren't accessible. In the 116 years that J. Pierpont Morgan ...

The New York Public Library's Rose Main Reading Room will remain closed for the next six months for inspection and repairs after a plaster rosette fell from its ceiling, library officials said Monday.

The Dag Hammarskjöld Library recently welcomed colleagues from the Metropolitan Museum’s Thomas J. Watson Library for a tour of the Library. The group of 15 librarians, led by Gwen Mayhew, were ...

New York City Admirers of the 1906 Morgan Library & Museum who felt that Renzo Piano’s 2006 expansion overshadowed the historic rooms of J. Pierpont Morgan’s former study and library — housed in an ...

New York Fashion Week isn’t just for humans. The American Kennel Club’s Museum of the Dog is bringing NYFW to the bark side with its newest exhibit, “Fashionable Dogs.” Just like fashion ...

Police said 33-year-old Christopher Johnson spray-painted graffiti on a blank wall at ... 2014 / 4:54 PM EDT / CBS New York ... None of the museum's art was damaged by the graffiti and ...