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It's not every museum that forgets where its own doors are. Yet this has happened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art at various points in the past. The institution is [...]

Two exhibitions in the USA suggest that the art of colonial Mexico has finally entered the mainstream. But it is important to keep the unique conditions of its creation firmly [...]

The Steins--siblings Gertrude, Leo, and Michael, along with Michael's wife Sarah--are considered today to have changed the history of modern art. This American family collected hundreds of artworks W a [...]

The pale, wide-eyed young man tearing at his hair has been everywhere since the juicy Gustave Courbet retrospective opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art at the end of February. […]

Gazing coolly and a little skeptically from a celebrated self-portrait, the painter himself greets us as we enter "Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (1) […]

In 1923, Picasso observed: "To me there is no pastor future in art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present, it must not be considered at […]

In his recent vademecum to the Metropolitan Museum's current Rembrandt exhibition, The New York Times critic Holland Cotter opened with this statement: "'The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Painting in the […]

Frank Stella is an unstoppable force. His work is so consistently unexpected and, more often than not, so full of youthful nerve that it's difficult to believe he has been […]

With the reopening of the Metropolitan's Greek and Roman galleries, the Great Hall of this museum has become a compelling visual metaphor for the Mediterranean. (1) Entering Richard Morris Hunt's […]

It's not exactly news that Venice had close ties to the East. We were all taught early on that the wealth of the magical city of canals derived from trade […]

Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands. Exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 10 May 2005-15 January 2006. In 1988, Arthur Danto, philosopher of art, described a hypothetical instance in [...]

Much new evidence about the Spanish careers of the Delli brothers has been revealed by the recent cleaning of the main altarpiece in Salamanca's Old Cathedral. Carmen C. Bambach compares [...]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MoMA) is organizing the largest exhibition ever of works by Gilbert Stuart in October 2004 where visitors would gain insight into the preeminent portrait artist of the founding fathers and mothers and also into the remarkable individual, who were his subjects. The show presents 92 major paintings, many rarely seen together and some just discovered in private collections.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is presenting a major show of Artemisia Gentileschis, one of the most successful 17th-century Italian painters, and her father, Orazio Gentileschi. The exhibit, 'Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi: Father and Daughter Painters in Baroque Italy,' is billed as the largest assemblage of work by either of the two artists.

A description is presented of the 'Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries' exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, and the 'Vermeer and the Delft School' exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY.

Sculptures, icons and paintings of religious concepts and themes from the middle Byzantine period were the main attraction of the art exhibit called 'The Glory of Byzantium' at New York, NY's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Many of the figures caused a great deal of debate about the correctness of the show of reverence towards icons and images. Other relics characteristic of the period are also presented in the exhibit.

Five major museums have started to renovate their galleries devoted to classical art, thus dramatically improving the presentation for visitors. The museums are the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Vatican's Museo Etrusco Gregoriano and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Each institution has developed a distinctive way of presenting information, the most scholarly being that of the University of Pennsylvania museum, which has sponsored classical archaeological projects since 1910.