The film *Digging Into the Past: Egyptian Excavations of the Metropolitan Museum of Art* showcases fascinating footage of archaeological work in Egypt during the 1920s. Egyptian workers are seen ...

Artist Armia Khalil emigrated to the U.S. from Egypt with nothing but $400 and a suitcase of sculpting tools. When his dreams of becoming a professional sculptor didn't work out, he got a job as a ...

“The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism” on view at the Met. Photo: Courtesy The Met Photo by Anna-Marie Kellen The first thing you’re likely to read about the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s ...

Education is part of the mission of most art museums. Programs usually help kids learn things like how to look at a painting, how to draw or the biographies of certain artists. But the Metropolitan ...

In 2022, the heirs of John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) made a major donation spread across seven museums in the U.S. and the U.K. These works were not by the famed Gilded Age society portraitist, but ...