When visitors enter the Great Hall of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art this month, they will be greeted with something unusual: a pair of monumental history paintings by Cree artist Kent Monkman.

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 ...

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. It ...

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 ...

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

For nearly 50 years, New York City's Metropolitan Museum has been "pay what you wish," making it an accessible cultural attraction in a city known for being expensive. While there was a suggested ...

The heads of the Metropolitan Museum of Art enjoyed high incomes even as the museum was forced to execute mass layoffs in 2020. Newsday via Getty Images The money-hemorrhaging Metropolitan Museum’s ...