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 Metropolitan Museum of Art has unveiled a vast display of Cycladic antiquities from the collection of the American philanthropist Leonard N. Stern, following the announcement of a five-decade ...

Catch a lush Monet blockbuster, gorgeous Egyptian goddesses and the history of Black Broadway before they’re gone.

New York City Mayoral-Elect Zohran Mamdani has signed an open letter in support of roughly 1,000 workers of the Metropolitan ...

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 ...

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 ...

Call it the meeting of a long-dead mentor and his namesake, hundreds of years later and in ninja turtle form. Michelangelo, the fictional Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, was spotted above ground in New ...

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 ...

In the 1985 film Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird, Big Bird gets kidnapped by a traveling circus. Its owners paint him blue, cage him, and force him to sing the song “I’m So Blue” for their ...

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is making all public domain works in its collection available online for both scholarly and commercial purposes, it announced today. The new Open Access policy ...

It’s not easy to steal from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. There hasn’t been a major robbery at the museum in 40 years. Thanks to its guard force of over 500 people and its hi-tech security systems, ...