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News Articles: metropolitan museum of art

When Lee Krasner was asked in a 1978 interview what she was doing while her husband Jackson Pollock was becoming so famous, she said, "I was working all the time." Krasner is shown above, at work, in 1981.

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  • Fine Art

The Met puts a modern artist front and center (and there's some Jackson Pollock, too)

In a blockbuster show, The Metropolitan Museum of Art places the work of two major 20th century artists side by side: the married couple Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock.

October 10, 2026
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Beyoncé arrives for the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on Monday.

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  • Arts & Life

See the looks from the 2026 Met Gala red carpet

Extravagantly dressed celebrities and designers made their way up the famous Met staircase Monday evening. The fundraiser is one of the fashion industry's biggest nights.

May 05, 2026
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By:
  • Emily Bogle and
  • Ivy Buck
Zendaya attends the 2025 Met Gala in New York City.

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  • Arts & Life

At the 2026 Met Gala, 'Fashion is Art.' Here's what to expect

On the first Monday of every May, the rich, famous and well-dressed gather in New York City for the Met Gala fundraiser. Ivy Buck offers a lookahead - covering this year's theme, where to watch, who's coming, and more.

May 04, 2026
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  • Ivy Buck
The current exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" is organized into 12 conceptual and chronological groupings. On display here is the "Heritage" category blending African dress with Western tailoring traditions.

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  • Arts & Life

A look at the Met Museum's exhibition on Black dandyism

The Met's spring exhibition presents a cultural and historical examination of Black style over 300 years through the concept of dandyism.

June 04, 2025
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By:
  • NPR Staff and
  • Amanda Rozon
Singer and composer H. Sinno is bringing a site-specific opera to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Temple of Dendur.

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  • Arts & Life

An ancient Egyptian temple in New York inspires a Lebanese American musician

H. Sinno, former lead singer of the pioneering Lebanese rock band Mashrou' Leila, pairs their own history with that of the Metropolitan Museum's Temple of Dendur in their new opera.

January 27, 2024
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Head of Buddha from the seventh century

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  • Fine Art

Met museum is returning looted ancient art to Cambodia and Thailand

The Metropolitan Museum of Art had been displaying artwork from the Khmer era that was associated with a man indicted in 2019 for the illegal trafficking of antiquities.

December 15, 2023
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  • Mandalit del Barco
Cara Romero, "Water Memory,<em>"</em> 2015

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  • Art & Design

A provocative exhibit at NYC's Met Museum takes a new point of view

The exhibit explores how Native Americans have used water. But it also points out how political water is.

July 04, 2022
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  • Jennifer Vanasco
Cara Romero, "Water Memory,<em>"</em> 2015

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  • Art & Design

A provocative exhibit at NYC's Met Museum takes a new point of view

The exhibit explores how Native Americans have used water. But it also points out how political water is.

July 04, 2022
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By:
  • Jennifer Vanasco
Blake Lively

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  • Arts & Life

See All The Best Looks From The Met Gala 2022

It's the annual high-stakes fashion soiree is a major money-maker for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute and an opportunity for mega-wattage stars and influencers to turn out in style.

May 03, 2022
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Co-chair Amanda Gorman dons a cobalt-blue Vera Wang gown and a book-shaped clutch that says "give us your tired," a look inspired by the Statue of Liberty.

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  • Art & Design

Here Are The Best Looks From The Met Gala — And The Messages Behind Them

After the pandemic shut down fashion's biggest night in 2020, the Met Gala came back on the 75th anniversary of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

September 14, 2021
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By:
  • Natalie Escobar,
  • Marco Storel,
  • and 1 more
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has been closed since mid-March, but will be open to visitors five days a week starting in August.

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  • National

New York's Metropolitan Museum Of Art Will Open Its Doors Again In Late August

The country's largest art museum will be open to the public five days a week starting at the end of August. It had been closed since March as New York City grappled with the coronavirus pandemic.

July 15, 2020
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  • Rachel Treisman
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