When David Koch left his home at 1040 Fifth Avenue, which was once occupied by Jackie O., he said one of the things he would miss the most was his views of the Temple of Dendur at the Met across the street. One thing he did not miss? The deteriorating plazas out front. Read More
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the rightful owner of Paul Cezanne’s 1891 Portrait of Madame Cezanne and does not have to turn the painting over to the heir of its original owner, the District Court in Manhattan found late last week. Thursday’s decision granted the Met’s motion to dismiss the suit brought by Pierre Read More
The fashion label Alexander McQueen is currently in talks to bring the "Savage Beauty" exhibit of the designer's work to London. The wildly popular show debuted at the Met this spring to record attendence numbers. "We have been in discussion with a number of major venues in London for some time now however nothing has Read More
Last week news broke that the follow-up to the Met's wildly successful Alexander McQueen exhibit will reportedly be a Costume Institute show featuring Miuccia Prada and Elsa Schiaparelli. Read More
"Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty" stunned the city, broke records and went out with unending lines that spun around the block until late in the night. Now, a few weeks after its close, the Costume Institute has announced the focus of next year's exhibit: Miuccia Prada and Elsa Schiaparelli. And that's all we know Read More
"BUT HOW DID HE DIE?" said a young man to the girl standing next to him in an outsize dress. The couple was looking at a blossoming, red-feathered, evening-wear creation, the first taste of the Met’s hit exhibition “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty.” Read More
Just over twelve hours ago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art shut the door on "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty," ending two days of staying open until midnight, waits up to six hours, and a spectacle that generated deafening word of mouth for the institution. The blockbuster show attracted 661,509 guests, putting it at number eight in Read More
Last night, "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty" officially surpassed the 2008 comic-themed "Superheros: Fashion and Fantasy" show in number of visitors, making it the most popular runway-related show in the history of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The late designer's buzzed-about collection has attracted 582,000 people since its opening in May, and will continue to Read More
There is an Oz-like aspect to experiencing a reading of Simon Gray’s play The Old Masters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art—the wizard being the art dealer Joseph Duveen, whose altercation with his longtime colleague, Renaissance art historian Bernard Berenson, over a painting’s attribution forms the play’s central plot line. Some 124 masterpieces in the Read More
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala is perhaps the institution's most famous and most glamorous event, New York's version of the Oscars. The event, a million-dollar fund-raiser for the Met, is planned out months, sometimes more than a year, in advance.
But when 40-year-old British designer Alexander McQueen committed suicide last February, the Met Read More
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is playing catch up in the digital age.
The Met is beginning what they say will be a long and expensive process of wiring the thick-walled building for Wi-Fi, so that visitors will be able to watch videos about the art from anywhere inside the museum. They created their Read More
This week, CNN celebrated Piers Morgan's ascent to Larry King's anchor chair with a bash at the apartment of NewsBeast editrix Tina Brown. By all accounts it was a good party, despite the fact that its location, WWD discovered, had been transformed into Tina's "brainstorming" bunker where she's "assembling the team" for the magazine's Read More
When art fairs and galleries try to be hip, they release an iPhone app or start a YouTube channel. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, always the traditionalist, opted for something subtler: an audio slideshow.Connections, the museum's newest online initiative, launched today. The institution's shiny new digital media department invited conservators, curators, executives, and Read More
Forbes’ annual list of the 400 richest Americans came out last week, and (surprise!) some of the country’s richest people are also its most prominent art collectors. Here’s a closer look at the top art lovers to make the list, and what they’re spending all that money on. (Spoiler alert: Jasper Read More
