The British Museum Gets a Giant Gift: $1.27 Billion of Chinese Ceramics
Sir Percival David’s collection, amassed in the early 1900s, includes prized vases and wine cups. “You simply couldn’t build ...
Last Night at the Met(s): Angelina Jolie at the Opera and a Celebration of Black Artists at the Museum
On the west side, the Metropolitan Museum opened "Tosca"; over on the east side, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened ...
British Museum receives donation of Chinese ceramics worth $1.27 billion
The 1,700 pieces of world-renowned Chinese ceramics constitute the largest donation in the British Museum’s nearly 300-year ...
British Museum given its most valuable gift ever
The British Museum is to receive what is believed to be the highest-value gift ever received by a UK museum with the ...
CT's Florence Griswold Museum spotlights Native American landscapes in new exhibition
The Florence Griswold Museum will explore how landscape is viewed in Indigenous art in the upcoming exhibition “Native ...
British Museum chief Nicholas Cullinan: ‘I start with the idea that everything is possible’
The new director on transforming one of the world’s biggest cultural institutions, last year’s scandal over thefts — and what ...
British Museum given £1bn of Chinese ceramics
The British Museum is to be given Chinese ceramics worth £1bn in what is believed to be the highest-value gift received by a ...
British Museum to receive hefty donation of world-renowned Chinese ceramics
The British Museum said on Wednesday it would receive 1,700 pieces of world-renowned Chinese ceramics worth around 1 billion ...
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Review: The Met’s newest exhibition breathes life into Italy’s colossal history
As visitors reach the end of the European painting section on the second floor of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, they come ...
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Greek American Philanthropist Mary Jaharis Donates $50 Million to the Met
Mary Jaharis, the Greek-American philanthropist, widow of Michael Jaharis, donated $50 million to the Metropolitan Museum of ...
The Biggest Surprise at the Met’s Egypt Show? Live Performance
Black artists have long claimed ancient Egypt as their own. Now they’re telling their stories in person on the museum’s floor.
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WHY Architecture and Beyer Blinder Belle’s renovation to The Met’s Michael C. Rockefeller Wing to open in May 2025
In late September, The Met gave an early look at the newly renovated Michael C. Rockefeller Wing. Closed since 2021, the wing ...