NEW YORK — Beginning in the late 1930s, Nelson Rockefeller tried to interest the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the exhibition of pre-Columbian artifacts, which he had begun to collect after a 1933 ...

The facade is meant to evoke celosía, a traditional Mexican breeze wall that can be found in Spanish, Middle Eastern, and African architectural traditions. (©Filippo Bolognese Images/Courtesy Frida ...

The greatest museum in the Western Hemisphere, The Metropolitan Museum of Art—an encyclopedia of more than two million objects from all parts of the world—is finally, after more than 150 years, coming ...

The 45-year-old architect had mostly designed temporary structures before becoming the first woman to design a wing at the country’s largest art museum. Frida Escobedo, the architect who designed the ...

To love art is to love its expansiveness, not just in terms of emotional impact but in the depth and breadth of its history. No matter how much one learns, there will always be more artists waiting ...