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The 500 guitars were given to the Met by collector Dirk Ziff. At the time, Met director Max Hollein said the guitars composed ...
It doesn't overwhelm the senses like the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City or the Louvre Museum in Paris. Yet the ...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be returning 16 ancient sculptures to Cambodia and Thailand that are tied to looting. Fourteen Khmer sculptures are being returned to Cambodia while two will go ...
The museum’s European galleries open today after a $150 million renovation that will allow art to be seen through a new lens.
Metropolitan Museum of Art showcasing local female-owned artisan Red Fox Spices It's now one of the products visitors get to see in the gift shop if interested in walking away with tangible memories.
The museum is in the final stages of a $70-million upgrade of its Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, which houses African, ancient American and Oceanic art galleries.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is home to an unparalleled art collection, for which guides abound, but this list of secrets will explore how the Museum as a building is like none other in the city.
Choosing art is a way we can exercise some control over our lives. Via art, we can also signal to anyone what we value about ourselves. Art can also help us decompress and revitalize, particularly if ...
The new wing promises to transform the museum experience, adding more than 70,000 square feet of gallery space for modern and contemporary art—a nearly 50 percent increase.
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 ...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has launched a short game, Art Links, that invites players to identify common threads among works of art.