Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The second part of the Met’s American fashion show attempts to display historical fashion tied to a precarious national identity

BY Matthew Linde | 14 JUN 22

With museums pulling the plug on the controversial company's unauthorized erotic art guide, Charlene K. Lau asks: is this feminist allyship or another example of art-history puritanism?

BY Charlene K. Lau | 17 AUG 21

What key artworks can tell us about the museum’s historical biases and what’s next for the New York institution

BY Evan Moffitt | 10 DEC 20

The artist’s nine-day performance in the museum’s galleries ties the migration of peoples and objects to the systems that control and classify them 

01 OCT 19

The Kenyan-American artist’s bronze caryatids occupy the museum’s empty niches which have lain bare for 117 years

BY Kadish Morris | 13 SEP 19

In further news: Met rejects Sackler gifts; Indigenous Womxn’s Collective protests Warren B. Kanders at Whitney Biennial opening

BY Frieze News Desk | 17 MAY 19

J.P. Girault de Prangey’s beautiful yet orientalist pictures are on view for the first time at the Met

BY Ian Bourland | 12 MAR 19

In further news: Radical Matriarchy protest lack of diversity at Washington’s National Gallery of Art; Met to return stolen ancient coffin to Egypt

BY Frieze News Desk | 19 FEB 19

In further news: Italian scholar claims to have found Leonardo’s only sculpture; Tracey Emin plans her museum

BY Frieze News Desk | 12 FEB 19

In further news: EU parliament calls for Nazi-looted art to be returned; and are art museums becoming more diverse?

BY Frieze News Desk | 29 JAN 19

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition of iconic rock instruments has been criticized for only including one woman

23 NOV 18

Artist Michelle Hartney has created #MeToo-inspired wall labels to call out the abusive actions of art history’s icons

08 NOV 18