Explore The Met Cloisters
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| Primer: The Met
Cloisters | Travel to an extraordinary world full of triumphs of medieval
imagination and join the hunt for an elusive unicorn. Explore three tales
about medieval creativity with The Met Cloisters Primer. Explore now → | | Inside The Met Cloisters |
| The Met 360°
Project: The Met Cloisters | Take to the sky to explore the majestic vistas of The Met
Cloisters. Explore now → | | |
| Insider
Insights—The Unicorn Purifies Water from the Unicorn Tapestries | Join Met experts for an in-depth look at The Unicorn Purifies Water, the
most lyrical of The Met's famous ensemble The Unicorn Tapestries. Watch now → | | |
| Insider Insights—The
Year Turns in The Met Cloisters Gardens | Join horticultural staff from The Met Cloisters to learn about
behind-the-scenes activities at the end of the gardens' growing season that
also pave the way for next year's bounty and display. Watch now → | | |
| Spotlight on The
Cloisters Library and Archives | Associate Museum Librarian at The Met Cloisters Michael Carter
discusses the history of the Cloisters library and archives. Read now → | | Performances at the Cloisters |
| World Music
Day—Thapelo Masita at The Met Cloisters | In a moving reflection on hope, unity, and community, South
African cellist Thapelo Masita weaves Bach's Solo Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major
together with African American composer Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson's
"Lamentations" and spirituals in a performance recently recorded
in the empty galleries of The Met Cloisters. Watch now → | | |
| Digital
Premiere—The Ninth Hour: The Beowulf Story | Watch the digital premiere of The Ninth Hour: The Beowulf Story. This
performative rock-noir reimagining of the famous epic explores the
intricacies of mankind's relationship with power and violence.
Staged in the Fuentidueña Chapel at The Met Cloisters last spring, this is
a classic story of glory and ruin—as told through triumphant pop anthems,
heart-wrenching lullabies, heroes, and monsters. Watch now → | | The Primer is made possible by Art Mentor Foundation
Lucerne.
It is supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Director's Fund.
For more information about the exhibitions, including sponsorship
credits, see Making The Met, 1870–2020, and About Time: Fashion and Duration.
World Music Day—Thapelo
Masita at The Met Cloisters was made possible by Art Mentor
Foundation Lucerne.
The Ninth Hour: The
Beowulf Story was made possible by Art Mentor Foundation
Lucerne and the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation.
Images: The Unicorn Purifies Water (from the Unicorn
Tapestries), 1495-1505, France [Paris]; The Netherlands
[Southern Netherlands]. Wool warp with wool, silk, silver, and gilt
wefts, overall: 145 x 149 in. (368.3 x 378.5 cm). The Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York, Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1937 (37.80.2) |
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