In His Play, a Guard at the Met Finds Solace in the Museum
Patrick Bringley stars in a version of his book, which tells how the Metropolitan Museum’s works of art helped him work ...
The Met Has Millions in Stolen Art. It’s Not Waiting to Be Asked to Return It.
The museum is taking the lead on re-evaluating its art and artifacts to determine where these works came from in the first ...
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Are Hairstyles the Key to Unlocking Art History’s Most Famous Portraits?
Grand portraiture is a minefield for some noteworthy hair. Portraitists such as Thomas Gainsborough and Anthony Van Dyck paid ...
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Alleged head of Egyptian antiquities trafficking ring leaves France amid ‘breakdown’ in criminal investigation
Serop Simonian was allowed to leave Paris and return to his hometown of Hamburg following a French magistrate’s decision that ...
Art Seizures at the Met Caused Concern. His Job Is to Address It.
After surrendering scores of art works thought looted, the museum is looking to its new head of provenance research to police ...
The Met Launches Art Collaboration With Band-Aid Brand
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has collaborated with Band-Aid Brand® to release a first-of-its-kind art-forward wound care range.
Fighting for the return of Nazi-looted art
New guidelines agreed to last year by 21 nations (including the U.S.), and a recent French law, may make it easier for Jewish ...
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Nature and Geist: Caspar David Friedrich at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The foremost representative of early German Romantic painting, Friedrich is thankfully receiving renewed attention at New ...
Lewiston's MILL museum can be a cultural hub for the community, leader says
Some people just seem to belong in their job. Rachel Ferrante is one of them. Ferrante was hired as executive director of the Maine Museum of Innovation, Learning and Labor, or Maine MILL, in the fall ...
An ancient bronze griffin head is returned to Greece from New York in a major repatriation move
An ancient bronze griffin head, stolen nearly a century ago, has been returned to the Archaeological Museum of Olympia.
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The Met May Have Millions in Stolen Art. It’s Not Waiting to Be Asked to Return It.
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in late February, an increasingly familiar scene played out: A museum was restituting a ...
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Fighting for the return of Nazi-looted art
Few who see Picasso's "The Actor "at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art know its complicated history. Paul Leffmann, a German Jewish businessman, sold it in 1938. "It used to hang in the home ...