Metropolitan Museum
See a slideshow of PUNK: Chaos to Couture at the MetThe theme of punk was a stretch to begin with. After all, the Metropolitan Museum is the very embodiment of Establishment, the pinnacle of artistic achievement, a revered institution whose vast...
One might argue that the Parisian woman is the protagonist of the Metropolitan Museum’s “Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity,” the first exhibition to document the formative influence of contemporary fashion on the advanced art in the period between...
Our most-talked-about stories in Visual Art, Design & Architecture, Fashion & Style, and Performing Arts, January 14- 18, 2013:ART — In the ongoing debate of the impact of money and art, Ben Davis emphasized three “hard...
“In many ways, I’m profoundly uninterested in architecture,” says Katrin Sigurdardottir — a surprising statement from an artist whose work would seem to be intimately linked to architectural traditions. For instance, "Boiseries," Sigurdardottir’s project at...
NEW YORK — Something’s amiss in the halls of the Metropolitan Museum. Antonio Canova’s “Reclining Naiad” (1819-24) has been fractured into polygons, its subtle curves broken out into sharp angles. The Northern Qi Dynasty guardian lion from the sixth century...
Our most-talked-about stories in Art, Design & Fashion, and Performing Arts, May 14-18, 2012:ART— Madeleine O'Dea noted strong sales and an upbeat atmosphere on ART HK's opening day, and then picked the most memorable booths of the fast-...
"Naked Before the Camera"The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gallery 852, 1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street), New YorkThrough September 9, 2012The Met’s tiny Howard Gillman Galleries would be easy to miss, if it weren’t for the marquee tricked out in clown...
— Met Gets History Lesson from 13-Year-Old: During a recent visit to the Metropolitan Museum 13-year-old Benjamin Lerman Coady noticed a glaring omission: parts of Africa and Spain were missing from a map of the 6th century Byzantine Empire. Despite the...
