Metropolitan Museum of Art

Every year, The Met adorns a Christmas tree with celestial figures and installs a crèche surrounded by a miniature 18th-century Italian village.

During this holiday season of giving, many of us put up a Christmas tree. We decorate it with ...

NEW YORK—Even for a legendary film director like Martin Scorsese, the assignment was a daunting one. Take one ...

My work as a composer has taken me with some regularity to New York City, and each time ...

NEW YORK—The New Year is synonymous with new beginnings, resolutions, and growth. You look to your past to ...

NEW YORK—This time of year always reminds me of the divine. With Christ’s birthday being at the center ...

NEW YORK—Those who remain enchanted by the notion of chivalry and the medieval rules of knighthood will find ...

 NEW YORK—Sweet acoustic melodies floated out of The Met's Robert Lehman Wing court as I peered down from ...

There are usually two times a year when I introspect deeply: the New Year and my birthday. Since ...

NEW YORK—A few years back, I wrote about one of the royal British portrait painters who often referred ...

NEW YORK—I’m often surprised how small certain famous works of art actually are. Rembrandt van Rijn’s “Self-Portrait Etching ...

“Rendering humans is the most difficult. Next are landscapes, and after that are dogs and horses. Terraces and ...

There’s a prevailing attitude among some art enthusiasts that art that isn’t contemporary isn’t relevant. The Metropolitan Museum ...

In China, the most beloved and revered hard stone of all is jade, a symbol of purity and ...

NEW YORK—Artistic endeavors usually begin with a drawing. As if taking a cue from "the first art historian," ...

NEW YORK—If you were asked to imagine a sculpture, you would likely conjure an image of a robust man ...

NEW YORK—Once in a while, The Metropolitan Museum of Art brings out of its storage vaults some of its ...

NEW YORK—Expressions of denial, guilt, and regret are written all over the faces of the main figures in ...

NEW YORK—Come spring next year, New York will become the hub for Asian art. Connoisseurs, collectors, scholars, art ...

NEW YORK—His contemporaries called him "il genio bizzaro" (the bizarre genius), and he signed his paintings, "Guido Cagnacci ...

NEW YORK—Walk into the exhibition on Valentin de Boulogne at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and you risk ...

The phenomenon of "Jerusalem fever", as it was described in medieval times, gripped and tugged merchants, artisans, scholars, ...

Met Gala 2016 is over—let the fashion scrutiny begin. This year's theme of "Manus x Machina: Fashion in an ...

It is not often that a Chinese painting on rice paper survives over 1,000 years so that we ...

There's a difference between viewing and perceiving.

A blockbuster art exhibition can double the annual attendance of an art museum and pull in significant amounts ...

Stendhal wrote about feeling faint in the presence of great art. Goethe said that merely knowing that a ...