• Retrospective

‘In the Spirit of the Present Day’: The Met Gets Modern With a Major Donation of 19th-Century Painting, in 1930

Today the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens the Met Breuer, its hotly anticipated annex for modern and contemporary art. Many have seen the Met Breuer as a way of bringing the Met up to date, making…

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  The Editors of ARTnews
• Mar 18, 2016 11:55 am

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Morning Links: Clara Serena Rubens Edition

A portrait of Rubens' 12-year-old daughter Clara Serena, which was recently deaccessioned by the Met, is going to be housed at the Rubenshuis in Antwerp. It was previously attributed to a follower of…

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  The Editors of ARTnews
• Mar 24, 2015 9:25 am

• Retrospective

Retrospective: The Best Art of 1939, The Year MoMA Acquired Picasso’s Demoiselles

As part of our 2014: Year in Review features, we look back to a year-ending column that ARTnews editor Alfred M. Frankfurter penned 75 years ago, in 1939, as war swept Europe. Among Frankfurter’s high…

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  The Editors of ARTnews
• Dec 23, 2014 7:52 am