Installation view of “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350,” on view Oct. 13, 2024–Jan. 26, 2025 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (photo: Eileen Travell, courtesy of The Met).

The Metropolitan Museum of Art “People get upset when it’s not on view,” said Stephanie L. Herdrich, curator of American painting and drawing at the Met. “I’ve even seen people with ...

The heirs of a Jewish collector who fled Germany in the 1930s claim that well-documented provenance issues with the painting “La cueillette des olives” have been overlooked by the museum and ...

Despite a healthy and engaged crowd, there was a definite hush among visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s magical exhibition “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350” last week. They ...