Sep 28, 2023 | Art, New York, News & Trending
Bélizaire, an enslaved black teenage boy, has been restored to a painting from which he was erased, now on display at the Met. Bélizaire was a household slave of the Freys, a wealthy white family living in New Orleans’ French Quarter in the mid-1800s. In 1837,...
Feb 14, 2022 | Art, Gallery, Museums, New York, News & Trending
Nader Tehrani, the Iranian-born architect of the Melbourne School of Design, will be leading the renovation of the Met’s Ancient Near East and Cypriot galleries. Nader Tehrani has honed his skills in architecture all over the world. He has erected works in...
Jan 17, 2022 | News & Trending
Christopher Wright made a name for himself by identifying a painting as fake. Now he’s sure he’s found a real one. Christopher Wright, 76, is a retired art historian. His expert career was built around 17th-century French painters like Poussin, Vermeer,...
Dec 6, 2021 | Art, Gallery, Museums, New York, News & Trending
Stolen art and antiquities have been a core part of the New York art world literally as long as the city has existed. That’s coming to light, day by day. Not all art theft is Mission Impossible-style heists or burglaries in the night. Most of it is simply...
Sep 20, 2021 | Art, Museums, News & Trending
The Met Gala looks like a ludicrous circus, if you don’t know what it’s about. The celebrity elite dressing in outlandish extravagance and impracticality, just to eat dinner and take pictures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Tickets are $30,000 a seat,...
