The museum has agreed to return two works from 1857 by the Black potter David Drake, who made his ambitious jars while ...

“The Real Thing: Unpackaging Product Photography” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through Aug. 4 is not so much about the real real thing as it is about using photographic techniques to gussy up an ...

Through the agreement, the museum has repurchased one of the vessels, while Drake's descendants will retain ownership of the ...

For nearly a decade, leadership at three of the area’s biggest museums held steady, as directors at the Institute of ...

How does a young American artist move to Paris, make friends and influence people, incite a scandal, and then keep on painting? With a little help from his friends. Courtesy of MFA Boston, Musee ...

Until just recently, visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Greco-Roman galleries were greeted by an enormous funerary vase, a creation of the ninth-century B.C., depicting in somber ocher and ...

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 ...

Picasso paintings. Jasper Johns ale cans. Irving Penn photos. The cosmetics heir created the model for the headline-grabbing donation that museums dream of today. Leonard A. Lauder at his Upper East ...

Despite the fact that I have seen many, many art shows sanctifying 1920s modernism from seemingly every angle, the “Mouvement Flou” is a new one to me. The term, meaning the “blurry” or “out of focus” ...