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Thinking Big
Gary Tinterow returns to Texas to run the Museum of Fine Arts—and to grow it even larger Read More
Bringing the Met Up to Date
British curator Sheena Wagstaff has been hired to expand the venerable museum’s contemporary-art programming Read More
Turning Over a New Leaf
When the Ming succumbed to the Qing, many rebel scholar-artist-officials became landscape painters who forged new, singular styles Read More
In With the Old
With portraits of men of color in trendy ghetto gear posed in attitudes copied from the Old Masters, Kehinde Wiley aims to ‘make paintings that matter in the 21st century’ Read More
UPDATED: A Long Lost Leonardo
One of the owners of a lost painting by Leonardo da Vinci has confirmed its discovery and authentication Read More
Pushing the Boundaries of Drawing
Richard Serra on sketching, mapping, rolling, stapling, cutting, and the other techniques he used to make the works in his Met drawings retrospective. Read More
Moving Targets
A veteran painter argues that the nude motion studies of Muybridge and Eakins are unjustly notorious—when they should be celebrated for influencing generations of modern artists. Read More
The Morgan Behind the Morgan
A restoration of J. P. Morgan's library illuminates lesser-known aspects of the collector and his treasures . Read More
‘Your Labels Make Me Feel Stupid’
In an effort to connect with visitors who feel bored, overwhelmed, or confused, museums are using focus groups, comment boards, and even full-time evaluators to help rethink and rewrite texts in the galleries. Read More
The Five-Year Plan
How the Met and the Whitney came to share an iconic Warhol. Read More
Why It’s a Michelangelo
A painting in the Metropolitan long attributed to the circle of Francesco Granacci is really by Michelangelo— according to experts who cite underdrawings, imagery, and aspects of the artist's own biography as clues. Read More
