After two years of traveling, “Madame X” — the iconic 1884 portrait by John Singer Sargent — has returned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it’s the star of a new exhibit ,”Sargent and Paris,” ...

Installation view of “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350,” on view Oct. 13, 2024–Jan. 26, 2025 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (photo: Eileen Travell, courtesy of The Met). “Beauty ...

Pietro Lorenzetti, Italian, active Siena 1320-1344, Tarlati altarpiece, also known as the Pieve altarpiece, circa 1320. Tempera and gold on panel. (Angelo Latronico and Foto Studio Lensini Siena/Santa ...

Beloved in Finland, Helene Schjerfbeck is just becoming hot in Manhattan, where a show of paintings at the Met Museum is likely to leave you awe-struck. By Deborah Solomon If you dislike the shortened ...

Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 577 ...

This fall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s highly anticipated “Siena: The Rise of Painting 1300–1350” will trace how an Italian city served as the foundation of a continent-wide artistic rebirth. The ...

The Met has gained access to a priceless collection of early 20th-century Austrian and German art.

At the “Raphael: Sublime Poetry” exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art one masterpiece is more jaw-dropping than the next. The exquisite Madonnas, the monumental tapestries, the bravura ...

After a two-year break, one of the world’s most scandalous paintings is finally back on show in its place in New York. But behind the portrait’s return lies a story of public backlash, ruined ...