Presented in partnership with United Kingdom Sotheby’s International Realty, this July’s Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction (July 3, 2024) is led by a wonderful Virgin and Child by Sandro Botticelli and his Studio formerly in the Roth...

Frida Kahlo is one of the most recognized women artists in the world. Step inside her iconic La Casa Azul, also known as the Blue House.

Many of Claude Monet's most iconic works were inspired by his idyllic home and garden in the French countryside. NBC’s Keir Simmons shares a look inside Monet's living canvas.

David Allen Sibley has been called the most important illustrator of birds since John James Audubon or Roger Torey Petersen, and his "Sibley Guides to Birds" have sold more than two million copies.

Flemish Baroque artist Anthonis van Dyck is reknowned for his portraits, which brought him great fame and fortune. He is seen as the best - and most ambitious - pupil of Peter Paul Rubens. His teacher was both a great role model for him and an almost over...

Norman Perceval Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was a 20th-century American author, painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for its reflection of American culture.

Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, known as Botticelli, was one of the most representative artists of Florentine culture.

Chris Mars is an American painter and musician. He was the drummer for the seminal Minneapolis-based alternative rock band The Replacements from 1979 to 1990, and later joined the informal supergroup Golden Smog before beginning a solo career.

Join curators Stephan Wolohojian, Adam Eaker, David Pullins, and Anna-Claire Stinebring along with their special guests as they guide you through the newly reopened galleries dedicated to European Paintings from 1300 to 1800.

It's a star known to everyone. His art looks like nothing that has ever been painted. His paintings changed art forever, and is now considered as a starting point of modern art.

Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it.

This is the story and artwork of Francis Bacon, the famous, Irish-born experimental and figurative painter born in 1909, in Dublin. His paintings were a prominent presence within the art community over many decades following the end of WW2, after exhibiti...

Go behind the scenes with artist Lauren Halsey, who discusses the inspiration and making of The Met’s 2023 Roof Garden Commission.

Kelly Baum (Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Curator of Contemporary Art, Modern and Contemporary Art) and Randall Griffey (Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art), take us on a virtual tour of Alice Neel: People Come First, which presents Alice Neel (1...

A self-proclaimed “collector of souls,” the American painter Alice Neel (1900–1984) is known today for her powerful, psychologically rich portraiture.