 | | |  |  | | The Met Store |  | | | | Featured Event |  | | | | The Met Cloisters Late Night: Night of Desire | Thursday, February 12, 6–9 pm
Follow your heart to The Met Cloisters! Celebrate Valentine's Day with a special after-hours event dedicated to medieval love and desire. Stroll the galleries and enjoy intimate gallery chats with curators, listen to medieval love songs performed live by Alkemie, and explore a fragrance experience created by Mythologist Studio, inspired by the scents of the Middle Ages. Get creative with hands-on activities—make medieval manuscript–inspired valentines, draw a portrait of your date, or craft a wire ring to gift someone special. Along the way, meet the mischievous Greedy Peasant and mingle with fellow romantics.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages.
Fee: $50. Note: Space is limited; advance registration is required. Drink specials and light fare are available for purchase. Activities are subject to change.
Buy tickets → | | | | For more information on the exhibitions, including sponsorship credits, visit Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson, Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages, Man Ray: When Objects Dream, Revolution!, Celebrating the Year of the Horse , and Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck.
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Images: John Wilson (American, 1922–2015). Striped Ice Cream, 1968. Illustrated children's book. Text by Joan M. Lexau (American, 1929–2023). 8¼ × 5½ in. (21 × 14 cm). Collection of Elizabeth and Vivienne Maiden, NY. | Kerry James Marshall (American, born 1955). Untitled (Studio), 2014. Acrylic on PVC panels, 83 ¼ × 119 ¼ in. (211.6 × 302.9 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation Gift, Acquisitions Fund and The Metropolitan Museum of Art Multicultural Audience Development Initiative Gift, 2015 (2015.366). © Kerry James Marshall | Base for a statuette,1470-80. South Netherlandish. Boxwood. 3 1/2 × 4 7/8 × 3 3/8 in. (8.9 × 12.4 × 8.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Cloisters Collection, 1955 (55.116.2) | Man Ray (American, 1890–1976). Élevage de poussière (Dust Breeding), 1920. Gelatin silver print, 2 13/16 × 4 5/16 in. (7.1 × 11 cm). Bluff Collection, Promised Gift of John A. Pritzker. © Man Ray 2015 Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris 2025 | John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925). Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau), 1883–84. Oil on canvas, 82 1/8 x 43 1/4 in. (208.6 x 109.9 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1916 (16.53) | Paul Revere Jr. (American, 1734–1818), after Henry Pelham (American, 1749–1806). The Boston Massacre, or, The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street, Boston on March 5, 1770 by a party of the 29th Regiment (detail), 1770. Hand-colored engraving and etching; second state. Sheet: 11 in. × 9 9/16 in. (27.9 × 24.3 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910 (10.125.103) | Horse (detail), Tang dynasty (618–907), 8th century. Earthenware with brown glaze. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Seymour Fund, 1951 (51.66) | John Wilson (American, 1922–2015). My Brother, 1942. Oil on panel, 12 x 10 5/8 in. (30.48 x 26.9875 cm). Smith College Museum of Art, Purchased, (SC 1943.4.1) Courtesy of the Estate of John Wilson | Helene Schjerfbeck (Finnish, 1862‒1946). Self-Portrait (detail), 1912. Oil on canvas, 17 1/8 × 16 1/2 in. (43.5 × 42 cm). Finnish National Gallery Collection, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki (A-2016-51). Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Yehia Eweis | The Met Cloisters Late Night gif: Don Pollard and Filip Wolak | | | | |
