In time, the silk tore along the edges. In 1975, a new designer on the New York scene, Mary McFadden, patented her own classically inflected pleating process, and her pleats didn’t loosen or tear.

It’s an infrequent experience that I was lucky enough to have during my visit to “ Mary Sully: Native Modern” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, an engrossing exploration of one woman’s ...

Mary Sully’s “Indian Church,” among 25 triptych drawings created by the artist from the 1920s to the 1940s, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in a show of graphic virtuosity.

“From a cardboard box to the Met”: that’s how the New York Times described the current Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition Mary Sully: Native Modern, on display through early January 2025. In this ...

A famous painting of the Immaculate Conception by baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo has become the newest in a long line of botched art restorations in Spain. Murillo's painting was ...

In “Sleeping Beauties,” an exhibition currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a Fortuny “Delphos” gown is laid out behind glass, its days of gleaming life over and done.