When the architect Richard Morris Hunt designed the regal Beaux-Arts facade of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, he planned to install between each pair of Grecian-style pillars a quartet of ...

Stroll through the courtyard of the Metropolitan Opera House even if you're not going inside for a performance. Every element of this opulent building – from the limestone architecture, to the lobby's ...

Midtown’s Metropolitan shopping center pulses with energy every day of the week. From grocery shopping to stopping into the salon, it seems as though there’s always pedestrian and vehicle traffic. But ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's long-awaited 150th anniversary exhibition is almost upon us. Young 19th- and 21st-century viewers gaze at Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851), by Emanuel Leutze.