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Metropolitan Museum

  1. vulture guides
    Jerry Saltz’s Guide to the Met for the Crowd-AverseA nearly hidden entrance, the line-free underground cafeteria, and a jaw-dropping yet somehow always deserted room.
  2. art review
    What Was Delacroix Doing? A Relic of One Era, He Somehow Invented Many Others.Somehow his infuriatingly messy paintings point directly to Cézanne, Manet, Renoir, van Gogh, Matisse, de Kooning, Marlene Dumas, and Kara Walker.
  3. museum pieces
    Report: The Costume Institute Is Planning a Rei Kawakubo–Themed ExhibitIt would mark only their second exhibit devoted to a living designer.
  4. museum pieces
    The Met’s New Tech Exhibit Is Really About CraftAn intricate look at fashion techniques.
  5. sequels
    Alexander McQueen’s Kate Moss Hologram Is Being RevivedIn life-size format for the V&A’s edition of “Savage Beauty.”
  6. quotables
    Christopher Kane Thought the Charles James Exhibit Was ‘Sexual’Sure … ?
  7. slideshow
    Women of a Certain New York: 7 Portraits of the City’s Grandest DamesThe opening of the Charles James show at the Metropolitan Museum’s Anna Wintour Costume Center brings with it memories of New Yorks past.
  8. but is it art?
    Lauder Donates Reported $1 Billion Worth of Picasso and Braque Works to the MetAnd Léger and Gris.
  9. schiaparelli lives!
    ‘Schiaparelli and Prada’ Closes With Lackluster NumbersThe exhibit ended on Sunday without much fanfare.
  10. neighborhood news
    The Met Museum Is Going to Get Even PrettierOn the outside.
  11. ch-ch-ch-changes
    The Met Wants to Be Less Old and StuffyWatch yo’ back, MoMA.