The painting is unfinished, its origins shrouded in mystery—and yet it has been hailed as one of the great masterpieces in the history of art. And now, an entire exhibition is dedicated to it at the ...

Discover the greatest little-known facts about the famous museum. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo by G. Scott Segler, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. For ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back in the late 1970s and early ’80s, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, arguably New York’s most esteemed institution, kept its treasured works about as secure as the razor blades at Duane Reade.

Chariot pole finial with the head of Medusa (detail) (Roman, Imperial, 1st–2nd century CE), bronze, silver, and copper, height: 7 1/4 inches, width: 7 inches; diameter: 4 1/4 inches (courtesy the ...

Left, 19th century visitors view Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851) by Emanuel Leutze; right, 21st- century visitors gaze upon the same work. Metropolitan Museum Archives / Roderick Aichinger / ...