Feb 24, 2021 | Art, Museums, New York
The wealth of any museum is almost always hung on its walls. The collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, for instance, is estimated to be worth somewhere between $100 and $400 billion dollars. (A very rough estimate – no museum would ever...
May 6, 2020 | Art, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art – The Met to its friends – is the largest art museum in the United States, and one of New York City’s largest tourist attractions, drawing an average of 7.3 million visitors a year, over a third of them international tourists. It...
Oct 16, 2017 | News & Trending
America’s largest museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is making its political opinion known. Following the news of America’s exit from the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Met’s president and CEO, David H. Weiss,...
May 22, 2017 | News & Trending
We all know the work of Michelangelo. From David and the Pieta, those marble masterworks which marry white austerity to a luxury of sculpted detail, to the incredible visual opulence of the Sistine Chapel murals, his art is one of the first things we think of when we...
May 1, 2017 | Exhibitions
Adrián Villar Rojas, Argentinian artist and worldwide exhibitor, was exploring the Metropolitan Museum of Art when he was struck by the way that the museum, any museum, removes things from daily life and “freezes” them. “In some way or another, I wanted to...
