An exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art displays photographs of shoes, cigarettes and even automotive parts to explore the medium’s essential role in advertising.

It runs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through Aug. 4. Under the thematic circumstances, “The Real Thing” is a nicely provocative title.

With the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Met will acquire and conserve thousands of photographs by James Van Der Zee, the virtuoso portraitist who brought to life the optimism of the Harlem Renaissance.

They didn’t allow cameras in the Met in the 1950s. But this sneaky photographer got lucky. Enlarge image (Metropolitan Museum of Art) ...

Art How Commercial Photography Sold Modernism The Real Thing at the Met Museum shows that the advertising tactics of commercial studios were in dialogue with avant-garde art in the 1920 and ’30s.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has made 400,000 images from its collection available for use in the public domain.

“Photography and the American Civil War,” opening Tuesday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, features hundreds of images representing important moments both in the war and in the ...

Read a review of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s recent exhibit, Photography and the American Civil War, including photographer Alexander Gardner.

The Metropolitan Museum Of Art Is Having A Black Moment With The ‘Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism’ Show Curator Denise Muller revisits a major movement in American art and ...

On Tuesday, March 10, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will launch a new exhibition titled “Photography’s Last Century,” a comprehensive overview of the explosion of the captured images during ...

(Photo by Jack Melton/Metropolitan Museum of Art) The Civil War happened to coincide with the early days of photography—its epic story can be told in photographs.