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    • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Beyond the Light, Metropolitan Museum — how Danish painters forged a unique national style

      A New York show of 19th-century artists evokes a changing country searching for a new identity through art

    • Monday, 26 December, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Lives of the Gods — the mysterious Maya at the Metropolitan Museum

      A dazzling New York exhibition shows the richness, humour and humanity of this ancient culture

    • Saturday, 5 November, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      How the Cubists used illusions to break and remake painting

      ‘Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition’ at the Metropolitan Museum sparkles with works by Picasso, Braque and Gris

    • Friday, 28 October, 2022
      ReviewArts
      The Tudors, Metropolitan Museum — bloodless majesty

      This survey of the 118-year dynasty reveals the outward manifestations of their power but little of their inner turmoil

    • Wednesday, 24 August, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Ancient artworks are seen in a garish new light in a New York show

      The Metropolitan Museum’s ‘Chroma’ suggests that the cradle of western civilisation was in thrall to colour and glitter

    • Wednesday, 20 April, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents — America’s powerful painter of rage and fate

      The Metropolitan Museum showcases the 19th-century artist in an exhibition of frank, profoundly affecting pictures

    • Wednesday, 20 April, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast at the Met — sex and slavery

      The museum’s show finds a reasonable middle ground between lionising the prophet and trashing the sinner

    • Monday, 7 February, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Charles Ray at the Met — sculptures satirical and self-obsessed

      He uses his body to reflect on himself, American life and the demands of art

    • Thursday, 9 December, 2021
      US opioid epidemic
      Sackler name to be removed from Metropolitan Museum of Art galleries

      Move is the latest fallout for members of the family that owned opioid maker Purdue Pharma

    • Wednesday, 14 July, 2021
      ReviewVisual Arts
      The Medici at the Met — cruel connoisseurs with an eye for PR

      A New York show casts the 16th-century Florentine elite as ‘Renaissance influencers’ who used exquisite art to varnish the truth

    • Friday, 21 August, 2020
      ObituaryLuchita Hurtado
      Luchita Hurtado, artist, 1920-2020

      An indomitable talent, finally celebrated at the end of her career

    • Friday, 13 December, 2019
      Visual Arts
      The Renaissance of Etching: a decisive moment in the history of art

      The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition is a fascinating look at how etching revolutionised 16th-century printmaking

    • Tuesday, 16 October, 2018
      Charlie Porter
      What is camp now? Jacob Rees-Mogg, Tilda Swinton — and the FT

      It’s the subject of the Met’s new blockbuster show. But what does camp mean in 2018?

    • Saturday, 21 April, 2018
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Like Life at the Met Breuer, New York — intimations of mortality

      This centuries-spanning survey of realist sculpture is both bracing and discomfiting

    • Thursday, 11 January, 2018
      Tiffany Jenkins
      Gallery crowds are killing the joys of visual culture

      It would be better for everyone if there were fewer visitors and silence was expected

    • Friday, 17 November, 2017
      Life & Arts
      Michelangelo at the Met: ripped physiques and sublime genius

      The museum’s blockbuster show assembles treasures from 50 collections worldwide

    • Saturday, 11 November, 2017
      Retail & Consumer industry
      Museums look to jewellery retail to close funding gap

      The Victoria and Albert Museum makes £1m a year from selling gems

    • Friday, 17 February, 2017
      Life & Arts
      Simon Schama on Hercules Segers’ landscape etchings at the Met

      The near-contemporary of Rembrandt was a virtuoso who created a whirlwind of experiment

    • Wednesday, 9 November, 2016
      Life & Arts
      Kerry James Marshall: Mastry, Met Breuer, New York — review

      This exultant show is both a homage and a riposte to the canon of western art

    • Friday, 18 March, 2016
      Life & Arts
      Met Breuer’s inaugural shows: the incomplete works

      The Metropolitan Museum’s new outpost opens to the public with a pair of contrasting exhibitions, both full of surprises

    • Wednesday, 27 May, 2015
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Rooftop, garden and park exhibitions, New York — review

      This summer’s outdoor works range from the gymnastically challenging to the gloriously disorienting

    • Friday, 1 May, 2015
      Life & Arts
      Chinese influences at the Met Ball

      This year’s Met Ball theme? The clue’s on the catwalk

    • Friday, 30 January, 2015
      Life & Arts
      Rare Mbembe art from Africa at the Metropolitan Museum, New York

      For 500 years the people of southeastern Nigeria created startling and mysterious wooden carvings

    • Tuesday, 8 July, 2014
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Garry Winogrand, Metropolitan Museum, New York – review

      The Met’s teeming retrospective matches and perhaps even exceeds its subject’s voraciousness

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