Western museums are major tourist attractions, drawing travelers from around the world. But what responsibility do we bear as spectators for patronizing institutions that display what critics say are stolen works?
Category: Metropolitan Museum of Art
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At the Met Museum, Richard Avedon at Large
“Richard Avedon: Murals” fills just one gallery of the Met, but “fills” is an understatement. These portraits of prominent political and social figures are a milestone in image-making.
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The Philip Guston Hoard: A Boon or Overkill?
The gift of 220 artworks from the artist’s foundation to the august Metropolitan Museum of Art seems at odds with the institution it hopes to become.
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The Philip Guston Hoard: A Boon or Overkill?
The gift of 220 artworks from the artist’s foundation to the august Metropolitan Museum of Art seems at odds with the institution it hopes to become.
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Review: Songs That Defy the ‘Quotidian Nature of Evil’
The composer Shawn Okpebholo has created a song cycle that imagines the inner lives of fugitives from American slavery.
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Lucio Fontana, a Sculptor but So Perverse
In terra cotta, clay, metal and concrete, the Argentine Italian artist overhauled the history of European sculpture.
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20 Years of Roman and Williams Design: Hotels, Restaurants, Guild
Ask the founders of Roman and Williams, who for two decades have designed homes, hotels, restaurants, clubs, galleries, stores, furniture — even birdhouses — bathed in a luxe patina.