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New York City has added another jewel to its glittering cultural crown, and it takes up little more than one medium-size wall at the Metropolitan Museum of…

The U.S. has returned two ancient looted sculptures, collectively valued at $275,000, to Iraq, including one from collector Shelby White.

The seizures took place over the past 18 months and a number of the objects have since been returned to Turkey and elsewhere.

Ancient sculptures at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts are getting a new look. After years of reimagining how to present the great Greek, Roman and Byzantine art, the museum has found ways to draw threads from thousands of years ago to today, using technology to deepen visitor engagement. Special correspondent Jared Bowen of GBH Boston reports for our arts and culture series, "CANVAS."

Object for object, there isn't an exhibition in town more beautiful than "The African Origin of Civilization" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Nor is there one more shot through with ethical and political tensions.

Greek and Roman marble antiquities have traditionally been viewed as white, but recent scientific studies have shown that they were often painted with bright colors – an accidental "whitewashing" of history that colored our view of ancient art.

New Yorks Met Museum Had Big Plans for Their 150th Anniversary—And Then Covid-19 Hit Jane Levere © All images are courtesy of Eddie Knox / Oxford Films, 2021 The Met Museum, New York, as the Wangechi Mutus sculptures are installed. Five years in the making, the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York did not go exactly as planned. Founded in 1870, the Met is the largest museum in the United States and one of the most preeminent in ...