The Cloisters - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for The Cloisters. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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“Rich Man, Poor Man: Art, Class, and Commerce in a Late Medieval Town” Exhibition
The Met Cloisters, Gallery 10 Below the monarch, nobility, and land-owning gentry in the highly stratified society of sixteenth-century England stood those known as the “middling sort.” Like their compatriots...More »
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“The Colmar Treasure: A Medieval Jewish Legacy” Exhibition
A cache of jeweled rings, brooches, and coins—the precious possessions of a Jewish family of medieval Alsace—was hidden in the fourteenth century in the wall of a house in Colmar, France. Discovered in...More »
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“Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” Exhibition
The Costume Institute’s spring 2018 exhibition—at The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters— features a dialogue between fashion and medieval art from The Met collection to examine fashion’s ongoing engagement...More »
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“Small Wonders: Gothic Boxwood Miniatures” Exhibition
The Met Cloisters, Glass Gallery Small in scale, yet teeming with life, miniature boxwood carvings have been a source of wonder since their creation in the Netherlands in the 16th century. On these...More »
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“The World in Play: Luxury Cards, 1430–1540” Exhibition
The three hand-painted decks represented in the exhibition—the Stuttgart Cards (ca. 1430), the Ambras Courtly Hunt Cards (ca. 1440), and The Cloisters Playing Cards (ca. 1470–80)—were made over a span...More »
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“Treasures and Talismans: Rings from the Griffin Collection” Exhibition
Rings are one of the oldest and most familiar forms of bodily adornment. Worn by both women and men, they serve as declarations of status, markers of significant life events, expressions of identity, and...More »
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Janet Cardiff “The Forty Part Motet”
The Forty Part Motet (2001), a sound installation by Janet Cardiff (Canadian, born 1957), will be the first presentation of contemporary art at The Cloisters. Regarded as the artist’s masterwork, and consisting...More »
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“Search for the Unicorn” Exhibition
Given by John D. Rockefeller Jr. in time for the opening of The Cloisters in 1938, the Unicorn Tapestries are its best-known masterpieces; yet, seventy-five years later, their history and meaning remain...More »
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Gallery Talks
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Garden Days at The Cloisters
This annual celebration of the gardens of The Cloisters has been expanded to a full weekend of programs. Events will focus on aromatic and scented plants used in all aspects of medieval life, from cooking...More »
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Family Festival at The Cloisters—Gallery workshops for families in Spanish/en español
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Family Festival at The Cloisters—Gallery workshops for families in Spanish/en español