Beginning in the late 1930s, Nelson Rockefeller tried to interest the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the exhibition of ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has purchased the objects, part of a collection of 37, 4,000-year-old Egyptian artifacts found a century ago by a British explorer, averting a plan to ...

The bull’s head is tiny, napped from a flint core 5,650 years ago, but its horns make a beautifully sweet curve to point at one another with uncanny precision, like two curved knives. It’s ...

One of the multiple Neith statues at the Met, 664–525 B.C. Egyptian, Late Period Cupreous alloy; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1908, Image via Public Domain ...

Photo: ” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Bowl with applied figures of a crocodile and hippopotami (ca. 3700”3450 B.C.) Photo: Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ...

Metropolitan Museum of Art is ranked #4 out of 38 things to do in New York City. ... Roman and Egyptian art, and the second floor's Islamic art exhibits are especially popular).

The object, which the Met says it acquired in 1962, is listed as part of the museum’s Islamic Art Department as a sixth-century amulet from Egypt. It is dated at A.D. 500–1000. Forwarding the News ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened in 1872, but it was at the turn of the 20th century that it found its voice. ... Egyptian art and interior design.

Profile. Since its inception in 1870 as a humble nook of art publications and print reproductions, The Metropolitan’s gift store has grown to include multiple outposts throughout the museum, and ...