The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Beware Strategizing Painters Bearing Gifts

By 1969, painting for painting’s sake was far from revelatory, and there is precious little abstract dynamism or formal innovation to be found in Baselitz’s work

June 30, 2021

Soaking the Tourists: Five Voice Art Writers on the Met’s New Admissions Policy

What if you pay when you leave? Like a service: “How good was it?”

Originally published: January 11, 2018

Thomas Cole’s Majestic Wildernesses and Dark Satanic Mills

A feast at the Met looks at the founder of the Hudson River School, and the visionaries who inspired him.

Originally published: April 17, 2018

This Wondrous New Workout Class Lets You Run Through the Halls of the Met

by Molly Fitzpatrick

February 7, 2017

The Met Doubles Down on Pierre Huyghe

by Jennifer Krasinski

August 18, 2015

A Met Exhibit Contains Multitudes in Just Four of van Gogh’s Flower Still Lifes

by Christian Viveros-Fauné

June 23, 2015

Breasts in Show

by Christian Viveros-Fauné

May 27, 2015

The Met’s Chinese Fashion Show Is Built on Bloat and Bling

by Jessica Dawson

May 20, 2015

MUSEUM PIECES

by Elizabeth Zimmer

March 25, 2015

Madame Cézanne

by Jennifer Krasinski

March 11, 2015