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

How does a young American artist move to Paris, make friends and influence people, incite a scandal, and then keep on painting? With a little help from his friends. Courtesy of MFA Boston, Musee ...

The statue and a marble head of a Greek orator seized from the Met Museum were among dozens of items found to have been looted that were handed over to Turkey at a ceremony in Manhattan. By Tom ...

Taylor Hill/Getty Images; Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images; Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue; Savion Washington/Getty Images Rihanna attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating ...

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 ...

You may have to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art more than once to fully appreciate “The New Art: American Photography, 1839-1910”; there is such a lot to see. With only a few exceptions, the more ...

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 ...

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is opening its Galleries of the Arts of Oceania to the public for the first time since 2021. It comes after a major renovation that allowed curators to reimagine ...

Photography was invented in 1839. Unlikely though it may now seem, photographs weren’t considered art for a long time. It took even longer before encylopedic museums like the Museum of Fine Arts or ...

A guide at the Mennello Museum of American Art discusses a Bo Bartlett Painting. Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images If the approximately 1,000 active volunteers at the ...