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Celebrate your graduation with family and friends by taking advantage of New York City like never before.
Commencement Carnival 2009 brings you a festival of the city's best culinary arts and culture on the cheap.
11 days, 22 featured events, 44 restaurants.
In order to take advantage of Commencement Carnival events, graduating students and recent alumni must present their Columbia Alumni Arts League
membership cards at all venues to redeem their benefits. The Class of 2009 can sign up for a FREE one year membership online or in person at the
Ticket and Information Center located in the lobby of Lerner Hall on 115th and Broadway and open Monday 3-8PM, Tuesday - Friday 1-8PM, and Saturday 3-10PM.
| Guided Tour of the Cloisters |
LOCATION:
99 Margaret Corbin Drive
Fort Tryon Park
New York, New York 10040
212-923-3700
DIRECTIONS:
By Subway: Take the 1 train to 168th street and transfer to the A train to 190th street. Walk north for 10 minutes.
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DATE:
May 17 2009
TIME:
Sunday 2:00 PM
PRICE:
$9
WHAT:
The Cloisters-described by Germain Bazin, former director of the Musée du Louvre in Paris, as "the crowning achievement of American museology"-is the branch of the Metropolitan Museum devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. Located on four acres overlooking the Hudson River in northern Manhattan's Fort Tryon Park, the building incorporates elements from five medieval French cloisters-quadrangles enclosed by a roofed or vaulted passageway, or arcade-and from other monastic sites in southern France. Three of the cloisters reconstructed at the branch museum feature gardens planted according to horticultural information found in medieval treatises and poetry, garden documents and herbals, and medieval works of art, such as tapestries, stained-glass windows, and column capitals. Approximately five thousand works of art from medieval Europe, dating from about A.D. 800 with particular emphasis on the twelfth through fifteenth century, are exhibited in this unique and sympathetic context.
The collection at The Cloisters is complemented by more than six thousand objects exhibited in several galleries on the first floor of the Museum's main building on Fifth Avenue. A single curatorial department oversees medieval holdings at both locations. The collection at the main building displays a somewhat broader geographical and temporal range, while the focus at The Cloisters is on the Romanesque and Gothic periods. Renowned for its architectural sculpture, The Cloisters also rewards visitors with exquisite illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, metalwork, enamels, ivories, and tapestries.
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