The Metropolitan Museum in New York has announced that the ownership of two objects in their collection is being transferred to the Republic of Yemen. In what has been described as a “custodial agreement”, the objects will remain on loan to the Met, given the civil war in Yemen.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced that they had purchased an important nineteenth-century painting attributed to Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans. The painting is the first naturalistic portrait of a named Black subject in an American landscape to enter the museum’s collection. Betty Kornhauser, curator for American paintings at the Met enthused “I’ve been wanting to add such a work to the Met’s collection for the past 10 years, and this is the extraordinary work that appeared.”
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has announced that they will be deaccessioning a bronze sculpture in their collection, which will be sold at Christie’s this May. Whilst the estimate of the work is only available upon request, it is anticipated that it could fetch around $30 million, which would make it by far the highest valued object the museum has ever sold.
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Last week the long-anticipated fundraising gala for the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute kicked off with a collaboration featuring French street artist JR. The performance and installation were debuted on co-chair Timothée Chalamet’s Instagram account, before hordes of in vogue celebrities descended on the yellow carpet.
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As the world attempts to contain the coronavirus outbreak, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will close its doors indefinitely. Major cultural institutions across Europe have also shut down in the last week. Continue reading
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