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Crowds in front of the Mona Lisa in the Louvre in Paris
Are Influencers Changing the Museum Experience?

Influencer marketing has been a mainstay of consumer brands for years, but only recently have …

Exhibition welcome and overview of Emily Sargent: Portrait of a Family featuring Sea with Boat & Figure, Pride’s Crossing (1923) by Emily Sargent. Photo: Danielle Vander Horst
Emily Sargent’s Introspective Paintings at The Met

The Met’s Emily Sargent: Portrait of a Family presents a thoughtfully curated glimpse of the Sargent family, centering primarily on the long overlooked…

Installation view of Sargent and Paris , on view April 27 – August 3, 2025 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo by Hyla Skopitz , courtesy of The Met
Sargent & Paris: The Early Days of a Painter

Now on view at the Met, Sargent & Paris, as the…

Campesinos (Peasants), 1953, John Wilson (American, 1922–2015), Oil on paper, mounted on board. Private collection, Boston. Estate of John Wilson.
John Wilson’s Art Explores Humanity and Activism at the MFA Boston

In the Rotunda of the United States Capitol, a bronze bust of Dr. Martin Luther…

Wesleyan University Pruzan Art Center, Middletown, CT, 2023. Architect: Peterson Rich Office.
Architecture Firm Peterson Rich Office On Designing for Art Institutions

Looking at art, one cannot ignore how important architecture…

Installation view of The Rooftop Garden Commission: Petrit Halilaj, Abetare (2024).
Petrit Halilaj’s Exhibit of Play Ascends the Met’s Rooftop

Petrit Halilaj dedicates his new installation, Abetare, to “kids who always know how to bring a brighter future,” as his belief in childlike wonder…

Fauvism Painting Example
Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism

"Join Dita Amory, Robert Lehman Curator in Charge, and Ann Dumas, Consulting Curator of European Art at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, to virtually explore Vertigo of Color: Matisse,…

Made by the Cypriot culture in the Late Cypriot II period, ca. 1450–1200 B.C. Height is 8 3/16 in (20.80 cm). The Met Museum. The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76.
10 Stunning Prehistoric Sculptures from The Met's Collection
This story particularly focuses on prehistoric sculptures from across the globe—which are often rather small and tend to depict humans, animals, or some combination of the two. The earliest…
van gogh wheat field
Van Gogh’s Materials and Process

"Gain a deeper understanding of Van Gogh’s artistic process through new discoveries from recent technical studies of Wheat Field with Cypresses and Cypresses in The Met collection. Hear from…

The Great Hall of the Met Fifth Avenue, Wiki Commons
Met Museum Pushes Contemporary Art to the Forefront
On Monday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the latest on their agenda: Nairy Baghramian will premiere work for the building’s facade commission, and Jacolby Satterwhite will be featured in…
Senga Nengudi performing Air Propo at Just Above Midtown, 1981, Courtesy Senga Nengudi
5 NYC Exhibitions to See December 2022
New York City will always be a global art center with institutions, public projects, museums, and galleries that offer a breadth of artists and artworks that changes constantly. This December, there…
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 12 April 2017
How Much Museum Jobs Really Pay

Have you ever wondered what a job in the art world pays? Thanks to a new pay transparency law that went into effect last week, all job postings in …

Louise Bourgeois, Untitled, 1946-1947. Oil on canvas. 26 x 44 in. (66 x 111.8 cm). Tate Modern, London.
Louise Bourgeois' Early Paintings at The Met
Linda Nochlin caused a stir when she published, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" in 1971. Turning the conventional wisdom of the title on its head, she clarifies that there have…
Still #2 from Met Preview Video of the exhibition, In America- An Anthology of Fashion. Features a blue, bejeweled dress hem
Met Gala Disappoints Unlike “In America: An Anthology of Fashion”
As has become the case more often than not, the public response to this year’s Met Gala seems to be general disappointment. The negative reviews primarily cite the attendees' inability to dress…
The Mask of Tutankhamun, c. 1323 BC. Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
Blockbuster King Tut Exhibitions and their Fascinating History
King Tutankhamun—or King Tut—first entered the Western zeitgeist in 1922, when his tomb was opened by the British archaeologist Howard Carter and his financier the fifth Earl of Carnarvon. The near-…