It wouldn't be the Met Gala without, well, The Met. The gala is held each spring at its namesake, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City. It usually takes place on the first Monday in May, ...

Discover the greatest little-known facts about the famous museum. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo by G. Scott Segler, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. For ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened in 1872, but it was at the turn of the 20th century that it found its voice. Reaping the immense wealth in the hands of philanthropists, the museum began to ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is home to an unparalleled art collection, for which guides abound, but this list of secrets will explore how the Museum as a building is like none other in the city. It ...

“So much has changed in just a year,” says Claire Lanier, the Metropolitan Museum in New York’s social media manager, who has just celebrated her one-year anniversary on the job—in quarantine. In ...

Robin Givhan on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibit, “Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations” Plus, read our interview with Miucci Prada herself. “Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible ...

Chariot pole finial with the head of Medusa (detail) (Roman, Imperial, 1st–2nd century CE), bronze, silver, and copper, height: 7 1/4 inches, width: 7 inches; diameter: 4 1/4 inches (courtesy the ...

Back in the late 1970s and early ’80s, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, arguably New York’s most esteemed institution, kept its treasured works about as secure as the razor blades at Duane Reade.