Metropolitan Museum of Art

So long, ‘amulet.’ Hello, ‘phylactery.’ The Met Museum has updated that tefillin description.

The revision came days after Twitter users criticized the New York museum’s labeling.

Twitter debate ensues after Metropolitan Museum of Art labels tefillin as Egyptian amulet

It is listed as part of the museum’s Islamic art department.

Picasso painting sold by family escaping the Nazis can remain at the Met

The family of German businessman Paul Leffmann waited too long to demand the return of Picasso’s “The Actor,” and it would be unfair to force the Met to give it up, a federal appeals court ruled.

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