Metropolitan Museum of Art

Photographs of Death Camp Inmates Shouldn’t Be Called “Poignant”

The Met’s Birkenau blunder.

Lee Rosenbaum
Sept. 22 2020 12:01AM

“Peaceful Pluralism” in the Ancient Middle East?

A new exhibit paints an ambiguous picture.

Menachem Wecker
June 5 2019 12:01AM

A New Exhibit Displays Some of the Oldest Extant Photographs of Jerusalem

Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey.

Karen Chernick
Feb. 14 2019 12:01AM

The Metropolitan Museum’s Fictitious Golden Age of Jerusalem

Jerusalem syndrome.

Edward Rothstein
March 13 2017 12:01AM

Not "Your" City—"Everyone's" City

How the Met, in its exhibition Jerusalem 1000-1400 and in its defense against critics of that exhibition, exploits the vocabulary of openness.

Edward Rothstein
March 1 2017 12:01AM

Maimonides Illuminated

An exhibit at New York’s Metropolitan Museum featuring two illustrated manuscripts of Maimonides’ legal code, Mishneh Torah, is a model for how Judaica should be. . .

Tom L. Freudenheim
Nov. 7 2013 12:00AM