Gallery 625 in the newly reopened European Paintings wing at the Met, which features new skylights and highlights of Spain’s Golden Age, including a portrait by Velázquez of Juan de Pareja, a ...

Lisa Messinger of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum explained that O’Keefe focused on capturing nature’s essential shapes and forms, often painting ...

The Met advised us. Dutch still-life paintings omitted the “human cost of colonial warfare and slavery” that underlay the bounty these canvases documented, the wall labels warned.