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Unmissable shows in New York this May include “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism,” The Whitney Biennial, and surveys of Marian Zazeela, Terry Fox and Joan Jonas

BY Chris Waywell |

The second part of the Met’s American fashion show attempts to display historical fashion tied to a precarious national identity

BY Matthew Linde |

With museums pulling the plug on the controversial company's unauthorized erotic art guide, Charlene K. Lau asks: is this feminist allyship or another example of art-history puritanism?

BY Charlene K. Lau |

What key artworks can tell us about the museum’s historical biases and what’s next for the New York institution

BY Evan Moffitt |

The artist’s nine-day performance in the museum’s galleries ties the migration of peoples and objects to the systems that control and classify them 

The Kenyan-American artist’s bronze caryatids occupy the museum’s empty niches which have lain bare for 117 years

BY Kadish Morris |

In further news: Met rejects Sackler gifts; Indigenous Womxn’s Collective protests Warren B. Kanders at Whitney Biennial opening

BY Frieze News Desk |

J.P. Girault de Prangey’s beautiful yet orientalist pictures are on view for the first time at the Met

BY Ian Bourland |

In further news: Radical Matriarchy protest lack of diversity at Washington’s National Gallery of Art; Met to return stolen ancient coffin to Egypt

BY Frieze News Desk |

In further news: Italian scholar claims to have found Leonardo’s only sculpture; Tracey Emin plans her museum

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In further news: EU parliament calls for Nazi-looted art to be returned; and are art museums becoming more diverse?

BY Frieze News Desk |

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition of iconic rock instruments has been criticized for only including one woman

Artist Michelle Hartney has created #MeToo-inspired wall labels to call out the abusive actions of art history’s icons