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John Galliano speaks onstage during Vogue’s Forces of Fashion Conference at Milk Studios on October 12, 2017, in New York City. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images/AFP)
August 31, 2026, 7:03 pm
Met Museum cancels planned John Galliano exhibit after backlash over antisemitism
Fashion designer says he decided ‘it is best’ not to hold event, apologizes for ‘hurt I caused to the Jewish and Asian communities’; move welcomed by Jewish leaders
By AP and Luke Tress
Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour (left) and John Galliano attend Vogue’s Forces of Fashion Conference at Milk Studios on October 12, 2017, in New York City. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images/AFP)
August 31, 2026, 6:54 am
Met Gala may move date from Yom HaShoah as it honors Galliano, who once praised Hitler
NYT says some donors are threatening to pull their donations if the museum fetes the designer at 2027 event, after meetings with rabbis and prominent Jewish leaders fail to quell backlash
By ToI Staff
Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour (left) and John Galliano attend Vogue’s Forces of Fashion Conference at Milk Studios on October 12, 2017, in New York City. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images/AFP)
August 4, 2026, 2:46 pm
Sorry not sorry? John Galliano exhibit at the Met sparks Jewish debate on repentance
Former Dior designer claims turnaround after his 2011 antisemitic tirade praising Hitler, and while the ADL accepted his apology, others ask if it’s enough – or even truly sincere
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Illustrative: Protesters stage a die-in and have their shapes traced on the sidewalk outside the courthouse where the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy is taking place in White Plains, New York, August 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
October 3, 2022, 10:27 am
Joining wave of institutions, London museum drops Sackler name from exhibits
Victoria and Albert Museum cuts ties from American family blamed for fueling opioid crisis; advocacy group leader Nan Goldin hails ‘big victory’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative. Opioids in a loaded syringe and pills. (iStock)
September 1, 2022, 2:01 pm
Daily Briefing Sept. 1: NY law addresses Holocaust education; an opioid antidote?
US reporter Luke Tress looks at Holocaust art education in NY and opioid crisis; Jessica Steinberg discusses Aviv Geffen’s abrupt political shift and rebates for film/TV producers
By ToI Staff
A sign with the Sackler name at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, January 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
December 9, 2021, 11:28 pm
Amid opioid scandal, Met Museum to cut ties with Sackler family
Removing Sackler name from seven exhibition spaces, New York institution is latest to distance itself from Purdue Pharma owners
By AP and ToI Staff
A pair of historical ram's-horn shofars from The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection. (Bradley Strauchen-Scherer)
January 5, 2021, 3:58 pm
Join a curator on a virtual tour of the Met’s Ashkenazi Jewish treasures
Starting January 5, NY’s Metropolitan Museum of Art opens its collection for an online glimpse at medieval European Jews, showing the tastes of owners and artists at the time
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
A health worker (C) collects a swab sample from a man for Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) for the COVID-19 coronavirus at a testing center in Siliguri, India, on August 29, 2020. (DIPTENDU DUTTA / AFP)
August 30, 2020, 9:56 am
Global virus cases cross 25 million as India sets grim record
India sees highest daily case rate with 78,761 infections; nearly 843,000 have died from coronavirus worldwide; countries tighten restrictions to stem outbreak
By Glenda Kwek
Screen shot of the Metropolitan Museum of Art website with a revised description replaceing the word 'amulet' with 'phylactery' for an antique set of tefillin. (Screenshot via JTA)
July 29, 2020, 11:16 am
After Twitter storm, Met museum changes tefillin label from amulet to phylactery
But archive’s updated term for the leather boxes and straps still doesn’t mention its use in Jewish prayer
By JTA
StopAntisemitism.org was one of dozens of accounts to call attention to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's labeling of tefillin in its collection, July 25, 2020. (Twitter via JTA)
July 27, 2020, 1:04 pm
Met museum ‘mislabeling’ leads to Twitter tempest in a tefillin box
Jewish social media users ask for correction in NYC museum’s Islamic Art Department’s categorization of item, but academic says term is likely lexically correct
By Marcy Oster
'The Rape of Tamar,' by 17th century French artist Eustache Le Sueur. Photo: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Public Domain.
From the WebFebruary 8, 2020, 5:35 pm
The mystery of the painting in Gallery 634
‘The rape of Tamar,’ a 17th-century work of art on view for years at The Met, was once owned by a Jewish art dealer who fled the Nazis, new evidence reported by NY Times suggests
The Coffin of Nedjemankh at a repatriation ceremony in New York, September 25, 2019. (Michael R. Sisak/AP)
September 26, 2019, 12:22 am
Met gives back looted ancient gold coffin to Egypt
Museum paid $4 million for Coffin of Nedjemankh in 2017, but investigators say institution given fraudulent documents, casket smuggled out of Middle East
By AP
A Jewish ceremonial wedding ring, inscribed “mazel tov,” made of gold and enamel, from the Colmar Treasure, circa 1300-1347. (Musée de Cluny – Musée national du Moyen Âge, RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource, NY via Metropolitan Museum of Art/via JTA)
July 25, 2019, 11:01 pm
Stunning finds from the Met’s exhibit on medieval Jewish treasure
Hidden in the walls of a house in Colmar, France, by a Jewish family facing persecution, the jewelry remained stashed there for over 500 years
By Josefin Dolsten
Detail from 'The Actor,' by Pablo Picasso. (Wikimedia)
June 28, 2019, 1:14 am
Court lets Met keep Picasso masterpiece sold for $12,000 by family fleeing Nazis
Appeals court rules that descendants of Jewish businessman who owned ‘The Actor’ waited too long to demand it be returned by NY museum
By JTA
In this Aug. 17, 2018 photo, family and friends who have lost loved ones to OxyContin and opioid overdoses leave pill bottles in protest outside the headquarters of Purdue Pharma, which is owned by the Sackler family, in Stamford, Conn. (AP/Jessica Hill)
February 10, 2019, 5:10 pm
Jewish anti-opioid activists lead protest against Guggenheim Museum in New York
Nan Goldin and others drop thousands of fake OxyContin prescriptions at museum, in protest of its affiliation with Sackler family, whose company makes the addictive drug
By ToI Staff
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