The Real Thing at the Met Museum shows that the advertising tactics of commercial studios were in dialogue with avant-garde art in the 1920 and ’30s. F. D. Hampson, Panama Hats, from a Sloan-Force Co.
NEW YORK — Consider a pair of words that begin with “a”: art and advertising. You might say that they’re oranges and apples (speaking of words that begin with “a”). Well, yes and no. The two are ...
After two years of traveling, “Madame X” — the iconic 1884 portrait by John Singer Sargent — has returned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it’s the star of a new exhibit ,”Sargent and Paris,” ...
Despite the fact that I have seen many, many art shows sanctifying 1920s modernism from seemingly every angle, the “Mouvement Flou” is a new one to me. The term, meaning the “blurry” or “out of focus” ...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has finally revealed its designs for a five-story wing dedicated to modern and contemporary art, an addition that has been in the planning stages for about a decade.
A 19-year-old from Texas, Joshua Vavrin, was arrested after causing damage to several artworks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on Monday (November 3). Vavrin, reportedly under the ...
In a bizarre incident at one of New York City’s most famous cultural institutions, a teenager is facing charges for allegedly vandalizing centuries-old works of art and tearing tapestries while being ...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has launched a new online game called Art Links that lets players identify common threads and connections between works of art from the museum collection. The Met ...
The Met Gala red carpet has come and gone, but there were countless iconic moments inside the event. After all, the annual fashion fundraiser is more than just the epic procession of stars up New York ...