A man is actually suing the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for exhibiting masterpiece paintings of Jesus Christ because Jesus is white and blond in the paintings — and that is racist.

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Jessica Colley Clarke No museum in the United States is as celebrated as the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Spilling over with masterpieces from all over the world, including notable collections from ...

IN THE palatial rooms of the Metropolitan Museum ... at the museum frees the art from connotations of material aspects of culture. The monumental size of the paintings gives them inescapable ...

Exterior rendering of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Tang Wing (view from the southwest corner). Image © Filippo Bolognese, Images courtesy of Frida Escobedo ...

The Rising of Painting, 1300-1350” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York are movie stills and posters. They ...

From the Temple of Dendur to Van Gogh's masterpieces, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) is home to some a vast ...

“Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through Jan. 26, brings together rare pieces by ...

Images courtesy Metropolitan Museum, click to enlarge ... such as those for Asian art on the north side of the Great Hall and Islamic art and European paintings to the south, the $40 million project ...

As art museums go, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan is the ... and religious buildings while also producing smaller paintings collected and admired far beyond the city walls.