Fashion has always sat uncomfortably in the great art institutions of the West, the question of whether it belonged under the same roof as masterworks and...
In her own words: “She coming.” After Beyoncé dropped the cryptic two-word tease in advance of her latest tour, the phrase quickly became one of her...
For years, as the Met Gala has grown ever bigger, blanketing social media with pictures of guests in their finery, smashing cultural fund-raising records, teetering tantalizingly...
With a half-dozen wooden art shipping crates laden with a smorgasbord of ancient artifacts as a backdrop, Italian and American officials on Wednesday celebrated the continuation...
Here’s a pop quiz: What do all 17 curatorial departments of the Metropolitan Museum of Art have in common? It isn’t oil paint or excellent air-conditioning....
For this Halloween scavenger hunt, we scoured this encyclopedic museum for the most haunting works, bloody details and hidden meanings. By Zachary Small Visuals by Amina...
Mr. Luers doubled the museum’s endowment, modernized its financial systems, enlarged its staff to 1,800 full-time employees, secured the $1 billion Walter Annenberg collection of French...
Sixteenth-century ornamental timepieces frame a crystal-studded metal bodysuit by Thierry Mugler. Gilded silver reliquaries with sculpted hands stand next to a pair of Hermès gloves. A...