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Byline: Jason Farago We always overhype our vacations. After a long morning's climb the weather is clearing up, and we are peering into the distance, into the fog gathered beneath [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter The magnificent glow-in-the-dark exhibition called 'Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a visual event of pure 24-karat beauty and a [...]

Byline: Robin Pogrebin With more than 1,800 works from five continents, and new scholarship, refreshed galleries present the arts of Africa, the Ancient Americas and Oceania as three distinct areas. [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter Petrit Halilaj of Kosovo began drawing as a refugee child in the Balkans during a violent decade and invented a calligraphic world of memory. When this old [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter Notoriously, in the winter of 1969 the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened its first exhibition devoted to African American culture, but with a show devoid of art. [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith A major collection of early Greek figures and vessels takes up long-term residence in New York - a transformative event. New York City has added another jewel [...]

Byline: Zachary Small Wolf has promised works by Botticelli, the Gentileschis and van Gogh to the museum, which is also naming two galleries for him thanks to a large financial [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter The Met's galleries for 19th- and early-20th-century European paintings and sculpture are among the museum's buzziest places. Packed, always. Why? Because we like what we know. Here, [...]

Byline: Callie Holtermann The unlikely coupling of art museum and mall brand has yielded three apparel collections, with a fourth releasing this month. When Pacsun, the brand known for selling [...]

Byline: Patricia Leigh Brown In a sea change, artisans and leaders from Native communities were invited to be curators, offering a window onto the intangible and personal dimensions of Pueblo [...]

Byline: Graham Bowley and Tom Mashberg Shelby White has given the museum generous gifts and 33 years of service as a trustee. But investigators recently seized many of her ancient [...]

Byline: Graham Bowley and Tom Mashberg Investigators seized the Attic Greek cup from the Met last year. They, and others, doubt the museum's reconstruction of it from fragments was simply [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter 'Beyond the Light' at the Met is a luminous, move-close exhibition whose paintings and drawings render a volatile world with purity of heart and line. 'Purity of [...]

Byline: Robin Pogrebin A year into the war, institutions face pressure to note the Ukrainian roots of artworks and artists long described as Russian. It's not always simple to write [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith The gift of 220 artworks from the artist's foundation to the august Metropolitan Museum of Art seems at odds with the institution it hopes to become. How [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter A riveting show at the Metropolitan Museum surveys the complicated art of the ancient Maya, in which beauty and brutality are surreally entangled. Beautiful is complicated. Gorgeous [...]

Byline: Graham Bowley Prodded by law enforcement, and pushed by foreign governments, American museums are increasingly returning artifacts to countries of origin, but critics wonder at what cost. To hear [...]

Byline: Jason Farago Picasso, Braque and Gris learned new tricks from old masters of optical illusion. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art's new show, they shatter modern art to pieces. [...]

Byline: Tom Mashberg and Graham Bowley The museum said it is cooperating with the Manhattan district attorney's office, which has executed several search warrants at the museum since February. Investigators [...]

Byline: Tom Mashberg and Graham Bowley Cambodia suspects many items were looted and has concerns about a former curator's business relationship with a Met donor later accused of antiquities trafficking. [...]

Byline: Alex Marshall The decision comes just months after the Metropolitan Museum of Art said it would remove the family's name from seven exhibition spaces. LONDON - The British Museum [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter Two small exhibitions, one at the Met Cloisters, the other at the Wallach Art Gallery, bring the personal and political dynamics of devotional art to the fore. [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter Holdings from Ancient Egypt and sub-Saharan Africa come together in a masterpiece show. Now the Met should make clear how the wondrous works got here. Object for [...]

Byline: Max Lakin The Metropolitan Museum of Art hopes to entice visitors with a show of 150 Disney artifacts and its own objets d'art. Does getting cozy with a behemoth [...]

Byline: Tom Mashberg The country's culture minister cites new evidence, including the account of a reformed looter, to assert that numerous artifacts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art were stolen [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter Some 60 celebrated landscapes are part of a rehang at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Don't pass them by: They are demanding to the eye and mind [...]

Byline: Blake Gopnik Female authorship gives meaning to the images in 'The New Woman Behind the Camera' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, an inspired and inspiring exhibition. Sometime in [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith A large retrospective feels at home in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's grandest galleries and should silence any doubt about the artist's originality or her importance. It [...]

Byline: Jason Farago In more than 100 drawings and prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the brilliant Spanish artist navigates the turbulence of politics and looks deep within the [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter The artist Héctor Zamora's 'Lattice Detour' is a monument to openness over enclosure, lightness over heaviness, transience over permanence. It's also fraught with political meanings. A buff-and-gray [...]

Byline: Jason Farago 'Arte del Mar,' an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, shows that the West Indies were a meeting point of cultures long before the European arrival. If you [...]

Byline: Nancy Princenthal Nourished by Kenyan culture, the transnational artist is filling the niches on the Fifth Avenue facade, for the first time in the Met's history. It's a step [...]

Byline: Tom Mashberg The Metropolitan Museum of Art is studying the Indian artifacts it holds that track back to a man accused of running a major antiquities smuggling ring. Officials [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith Not every enduring literary masterpiece inspires a thousand years of often great art. 'The Tale of Genji,' written in early-11th-century Japan and possibly the world's first novel, [...]

Byline: Robert D. McFadden Jayne Wrightsman, a benefactor of the arts and grande dame of New York society whose celebrated collections of decorative and fine arts surrounded her life with [...]

Byline: SCOTT REYBURN LONDON -- 'The right function of every museum,' wrote John Ruskin, the influential 19th-century art and social critic, 'is the manifestation of what is lovely in the [...]

Byline: JASON FARAGO This Friday the world turns its eyes to the mountains of South Korea, where the Winter Olympics are getting underway in the town of Pyeongchang: small, bustling [...]

Byline: ROBERTA SMITH Give it up for David Hockney, one of painting's elder statesmen, and for his crystalline retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which proceeds in a string [...]

Byline: SAM ROBERTS Karl Katz, who was so entranced by an art history lecture in college that he went on to become a founding curator of the Israel Museum, convey [...]

Byline: ROBERTA SMITH Bamboo contains multitudes. Perhaps nowhere more than in Japan, home to over 600 species of this amazing plant, officially a subfamily of grasses but blessed with a [...]

Byline: ROBERTA SMITH In the 1980s in the New York art world and other cultural spheres, black was the new black, and the designer most responsible for this state of [...]

Byline: HOLLAND COTTER No one does epic better than the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It brought Pergamon to New York last spring and got the balance of giant and delicate [...]

Byline: SHIVANI VORA With its world-famous museums and dozens of galleries displaying works by both established and up-and-coming artists, New York City is home to a vibrant arts scene, and [...]

Byline: SCOTT REYBURN PARIS -- It's an auctioneer's jackpot dream. A man walks in off the street, opens a portfolio of drawings, and there, mixed in with the jumble of [...]

Byline: KEN JOHNSON During the years of the Weimar Republic (1919-33), the Expressionist painter Max Beckmann was one of Germany's most celebrated living artists. Then the Nazis designated him a [...]

Byline: TED LOOS During the 28 previous editions of The European Fine Art Fair in the Dutch town of Maastricht, its appeal has been straightforward. 'It's like the Met museum, [...]

Byline: MIKE ISAAC Michael Jaharis, whose business expertise in the pharmaceutical industry made him a fortune estimated at more than $2.2 billion, and who gave major gifts to cultural institutions [...]

Byline: JONATHON KEATS Master Thieves. The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World's Greatest Art Heist. By Stephen Kurkjian. Illustrated. 247 pages. PublicAffairs. $25.99. The Art of the Con. The [...]

Byline: ROBERTA SMITH Art is long, but color can be brief. That's the message conveyed by 'Van Gogh: Irises and Roses,' a small bouquet of paintings by the beloved Dutch [...]

Byline: ROBERTA SMITH Less than two decades into the 21st century, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has already mounted three spectacular shows of European tapestries. The latest is 'Grand Design: [...]