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Metropolitan Museum of ArtLatest Stories

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Chromatic Odyssey

Exhibition at The Met brings ancient antiquities to life through colorful reconstructions

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Raiding the Met

WAI Architecture Think Tank’s studio at Columbia GSAPP explored postcolonial conditions through narrative means

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“The Cathedrals of Our Times”

At the Met, the first posthumous show of Bernd and Hilla Becher’s photography showcases their influential oeuvre

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Going Up

Michael Lin’s Pentachrome debuts at the Met’s Great Hall Escalator

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Moving in the Light Direction

Beyer Blinder Belle’s “attic” renovations better illuminate the Met’s European Painting galleries

Met With Secrecy

The design competition for Montreal’s PHI Contemporary is public and transparent. Why can’t the Met do the same?

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Weekend Ready Design

Daily digest: Studio One Eleven to design waterfront L.A. amphitheater, Ottawa’s Block 2 finalists revealed, and more

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Great Outdoors Please

Daily digest: Raúl Cordero’s Times Square oasis, Kengo Kuma to design auditorium for Portland Japanese Garden, and more

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Past, Present, And Future

Lauren Halsey will bring radical utopian architecture to The Met’s 2022 roof installation

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Winging It

Frida Escobedo will overhaul the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s modern and contemporary galleries

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“A Whole New Story”

The Met taps NADAAA for $40 million reimagining of its Ancient Near Eastern and Cypriot galleries

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Parting Ways

Daily digest: The Met strips the Sackler name, Saudi Arabia’s Desert X AlUla will return, and more

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It’s On

Metropolitan Museum of Art bestowed with $125 million to renovate its modern art wing

Inside the met, alongside news of the richest architects of 2021
Museum Moves

Daily digest: The richest architects of 2021, the Met returns its Benin Bronzes, and more

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Going Up

With Eamon Roche in agreement, LPC approves new glass wall for New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Big Ben Is Bonging

Daily digest: Big Ben bell foundry will become a hotel, a new Met Museum plaque, and more

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Follow That Bird!

Alex Da Corte blends Calder and Sesame Street at this year’s Met rooftop installation

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People In Crystal Palaces...

Eamon Roche defends his father’s legacy ahead of proposed changes at The Met

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