“The Real Thing: Unpackaging Product Photography” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through Aug. 4 is not so much about the real real thing as it is about using photographic techniques to gussy up an ...

How does a young American artist move to Paris, make friends and influence people, incite a scandal, and then keep on painting? With a little help from his friends. Courtesy of MFA Boston, Musee ...

For nearly a decade, leadership at three of the area’s biggest museums held steady, as directors at the Institute of ...

Installation view of “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350,” on view Oct. 13, 2024–Jan. 26, 2025 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (photo: Eileen Travell, courtesy of The Met). “Beauty ...

“The great thing in art that has helped me more than anything is the practice of looking at the beautiful and shutting out the ugly,” declared Louis Comfort Tiffany in 1910. Admired today for his ...

Picasso paintings. Jasper Johns ale cans. Irving Penn photos. The cosmetics heir created the model for the headline-grabbing donation that museums dream of today. Leonard A. Lauder at his Upper East ...

Monet, Manet and Morisot are highlights, but also an exhibition of decommissioned historical monuments and a show of punishing performance art. By Will Heinrich The fall calendar is full of exciting ...

UNTIL November 9, you may see the exhibit of Mexican arts—on the second floor of the Metropolitan Museum—arranged by the American Federation of Art for a tour of the United States. The show will be ...