Indigenous Artists Reclaim The Met’s American Wing 

Oct 16, 2025

An AR juxtaposition of Cannupa Hanska Luger, “Midéegaadi: Fire” (2021–) over Thomas Cole’s “View on the Catskills – Early Autumn” (1836–37) (all images courtesy Amplifier) Imagine traversing the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s American Wing — the 75 galleries, the grand...

George Morrison Painted a Different Picture of Abstract Expressionism 

Oct 8, 2025

The landmark exhibition The Magical City: George Morrison’s New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art expands common notions of who were the major figures in Abstract Expressionism. In Morrison (Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa), it also introduces the...

Lorna Simpson’s Black American Sublime 

Oct 1, 2025

I’m a staunch believer that Lorna Simpson is one of the most important photographers of her generation, so I’m pained to report that Source Notes — a monographic exhibition of the artist’s paintings at The Met — is a mixed bag. Conceptually, the work is just as strong...

Man Ray Was So Much More Than a Photographer

Sep 17, 2025

Stepping into the exhibition Man Ray: When Objects Dream at The Metropolitan Museum of Art feels like entering the bellows of an old camera. Through a rectangular frame cut into the entry, the darkened walls unfold, accordion-like, to reveal a visual feast of the...

Jeffrey Gibson’s Guardian Animals Grace The Met’s Facade 

Sep 12, 2025

On an absolutely perfect day — warm but not hot, not a cloud in the bright blue sky — a giant bronze squirrel wearing what can only be described as acorn regalia looks out over an Upper East Side crowd with (literally) beady eyes.  It’s just one of the four...

A Landmark Raphael Retrospective Is Coming to The Met

Aug 27, 2025

Raphael, “The Virgin and Child with Infant Saint John the Baptist in a Landscape (The Alba Madonna)” (1509–11) (image courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington) “How generous and kind Heaven sometimes proves to be,” mused Italian Renaissance artist and...

Chinese Bronzes Blur the Line Between Original and Copy

Aug 13, 2025

Four thousand years ago, the Bronze Age in China began. Over the next centuries, as the region around the Yellow River became the seat of military and political power, bronze sculptures were created for graves and rituals; as weapons and money; and to emphasize the...

Met Museum Trustee Among Victims of Midtown Manhattan Shooting

Jul 30, 2025

Wesley LePatner (image courtesy Blackstone) Wesley LePatner, an elective trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Blackstone executive, was among the four individuals killed after a gunman opened fire in a Midtown Manhattan office building yesterday evening, July...

Met Museum Announces Highest Attendance Numbers Since 2019 

Jul 23, 2025

Amid rollbacks in federal arts funding and sweeping layoffs at cultural institutions across the United States, visitor attendance appears to remain on a steady incline at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Manhattan museum announced yesterday, July 21, that more than...