"Costume Art" will closely examine the connection between garments and art in the Met's collections. The exhibit will be on ...

Curator Denise Muller revisits a major movement in American art and history for what may be the most celebrated exhibition the institution has seen “This landmark exhibition celebrates the brilliant ...

The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced a "Costume Art" theme for the 2026 Met Gala and Costume Institute exhibition.

“Costume Art,” announced Monday as the next big show at the museum’s Costume Institute — launched by the starry Met Gala in 2026 — aims to make that connection more literal than ever, pairing garments ...

Gold Sandals and Toe Stalls, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Thutmose III, ca. 1479–1425 BCE, from Egypt, upper Egypt, Thebes, Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud, Wadi D, Tomb of the 3 Foreign Wives of Thutmose ...

Artist Armia Khalil emigrated to the U.S. from Egypt with nothing but $400 and a suitcase of sculpting tools. When his dreams of becoming a professional sculptor didn't work out, he got a job as a ...

For a $2 billion undertaking encompassing multiple projects within a 2.1 million-square-foot complex, the people directing the ongoing building efforts at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art talk a ...

With its board having abruptly ousted its director earlier this month, the Philadelphia Art Museum has already found in a new ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s current exhibition, “Armenia!,” is the first major exhibition of Armenian art in the United States. An exhibition at the New York institution is no small feat and ...

Two weeks after dismissing its director and chief executive, Sasha Suda, the museum has named her replacement: Daniel H.

Weiss, a JHU alum who serves as Homewood Professor of the Humanities and senior advisor to the provost for the arts, ...