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V&A Beats Out Met Museum to Acquire $2.6 M. Ivory Sculpture of Christ
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York had initially purchased the sculpture through a private Sotheby's sale, subject to its ability to be exported from the UK. Earlier this year, an export ...
The Art Newspaper22d
Metropolitan Museum repatriates ancient bronze griffin head that was stolen from Greek institution
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning a bronze griffin’s head from the seventh century BC to Greece after it was found to have been stolen from a museum there in the 1930s. The cast-bronze ...
The Harvard Crimson2y
At the Met New York Painting and Sculpture 1940-1970 at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art until February 1.
IN THE palatial rooms of the Metropolitan Museum. New York is celebrating the works of art that have burst from its veins in the past 30 years. Displacing the European collection from its usual ...