| |  | | Artists on Artworks—Greedy Peasant on Spectrum of Desire | Sunday, March 15, 2–3 pm
Fuentidueña Chapel, The Met Cloisters
Experience a queer, colorful, and imaginative medieval world through an artist's eyes. Join costume designer Tyler Gunther, and his extravagant character the Greedy Peasant, at The Met Cloisters for a one-of-a-kind look at the themes of the exhibition Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages.
Free with Museum admission, though advance registration is recommended. Please note: Space is limited; first come, first served.
Register now → |  | | Workshop—Stained Glass Making with The Met Cloisters and UrbanGlass | Saturday, March 28, 1–4 pm & Sunday, March 29, 11–5 pm
Saturday: Saint-Guilhem Cloister, The Met Cloisters
Sunday: UrbanGlass
In this two-day workshop, design and create a stained-glass suncatcher inspired by the medieval windows at The Met Cloisters. The workshop begins with a 3-hour session at The Met Cloisters where participants learn about medieval stained glass from Museum professionals and design their suncatcher panel alongside an instructor from UrbanGlass. On the second day, students meet at UrbanGlass in Downtown Brooklyn for a 6-hour studio session to learn the fundamentals of glass cutting, grinding, foiling, and soldering. All participants will craft and take home their one-of-a-kind stained-glass piece!
Fee: $350. All materials are provided. Please note: Space is limited; advance registration is required. Registration closes Friday, March 27, 2026, or when registration is full.
Register now → |  | | Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages | Through March 29, 2026
Fuentidueña Chapel, The Met Cloisters
Desire in the Middle Ages was multifaceted. It could be courtly or carnal, sacred or subversive, and expressed as a kind of longing, suffering, or joy. Medieval artists could be both deeply serious and comical in their evocations of these feelings. Drawing on decades of scholarship, Spectrum of Desire opens up new ways of seeing the past through stirring works of art that inspire us to think more expansively about people who lived in the Middle Ages, their relationships, and the artworks they produced.
Learn more → | |  | | | | | Accessibility at The Met
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Images: Greedy Peasant image by Tyler Gunthe | Stained Glass image by UrbanGlass | Aquamanile in the Form of Phyllis and Aristotle, Netherlandish, late 14th or early 15th century. Copper alloy, 12 ¾ x 7 x 15½ in. (32.5 x 17.9 x 39.3 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 (1975.1.1416) | Gerald & Kelly image by Aude Carleton | All other photos by Filip Wolak | | | |
