Metropolitan Museum of Art

John Galliano bows out of Met exhibition as backlash over antisemitism mounts

The reversal came less than a month after the Met announced that Galliano would be the subject of its spring 2027 Costume Institute exhibition.

Designer John Galliano and then Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour attend the Fashion Awards 2021 at Royal Albert Hall, London, November 29, 2021.
Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, Esq., President of Shurat HaDin

The Devil Wears Galliano

Visitors walk along the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, March 6, 2006.

The Met returns looted Sumerian and Babylonian artifacts to Iraq

Visitors walk along the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, March 6, 2006.

New York's The Met museum to return ancient artifacts to Yemen


21 stolen artifacts seized from New York's Met in smuggling probe

The works include a marble head of the Greek goddess Athena from about 200 BCE, two statues of Castor and Pollux from the Roman Empire and a piece depicting a Hindu deity from the sixth-century.

Visitors walk along the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, March 6, 2006.

NY museums scramble to acknowledge Nazi-looted art

The MoMA’s move comes as a new bill mandates that museums will be required to have signage acknowledging that stolen works were Nazi-looted.

 THE MAIN entrance of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

Sackler name to be removed from Met Museum galleries amid criticism

The medical school of Tel Aviv University also bears the Sackler name; officials there have resisted calls to remove the name of the school’s benefactors.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The MET – behind the scenes

Just beyond the museum’s worn paths, daily rituals may be something unimaginable

 THE METROPOLITAN Museum of Art in New York City, seen last month.

Metropolitan Museum of Art fixes label on Jewish phylacteries

The label described the Tefilin as a 6th-Century amulet from Egypt.

Pair of tefilin with black straps with blue kippah on white wooden background. (illustrative)

Met Museum mislabels Jewish phylacteries as 6th-century Egyptian amulet

The tefillin acquired by the museum is kept in the Islamic Art department.

  A Jewish worshipper wears Tefillin as he prays at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City March 8, 2012. Tefillin, leather straps and boxes containing sacred parchments, are worn by Orthodox Jewish men during morning prayer