The Met Has Millions in Stolen Art. It’s Not Waiting to Be Asked to Return It.
The museum is taking the lead on re-evaluating its art and artifacts to determine where these works came from in the first ...
Art Seizures at the Met Caused Concern. His Job Is to Address It.
After surrendering scores of art works thought looted, the museum is looking to its new head of provenance research to police ...
‘Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100–1900’ Review: An Empire’s History in Metal at the Met
The museum devotes an exhibition to an often overlooked era of Chinese bronzes, emphasizing both the artistic and political ...
In an Upcoming Show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lorna Simpson Goes Straight to the Source
Lorna Simpson, whose pioneering conceptual photographs and multimedia work over more than three decades had already ...
Fighting for the return of Nazi-looted art
New guidelines agreed to last year by 21 nations (including the U.S.), and a recent French law, may make it easier for Jewish families to claim ownership of artworks that they believe were sold under ...
The Met Launches Art Collaboration With Band-Aid Brand
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has collaborated with Band-Aid Brand® to release a first-of-its-kind art-forward wound care range.
To Create a ‘Portrait of the Modern Dandy,’ the Met Enlisted a Superstar
The 29-year-old fashion photographer Tyler Mitchell had his own ideas about how to shoot the catalog for the museum’s spring ...
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Metropolitan Museum repatriates ancient bronze griffin head that was stolen from Greek institution
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning a bronze griffin’s head from the seventh century BC to Greece after it was found to have been stolen from a museum there in the 1930s. The cast-bronze ...
An ancient bronze griffin head is returned to Greece from New York in a major repatriation move
An ancient bronze griffin head, stolen nearly a century ago, has been returned to the Archaeological Museum of Olympia.
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Report: (Smaller) Museums should make admission free
A new study out this week from the museum think tank Remuseum suggests free admission attracts more visitors without ...
Museum exhibitions across the globe are in artful bloom this spring. These are 5 to experience.
Spring is a time for renewal, and not only in nature. Fresh new exhibitions are opening at museums around the world, with an ...
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The Met May Have Millions in Stolen Art. It’s Not Waiting to Be Asked to Return It.
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in late February, an increasingly familiar scene played out: A museum was restituting a ...