When I want to take a quick breather from the relentlessness of New York City, I seek out places that allow me to both relax and explore. Something about wandering through an unfamiliar place ...

Image in public domain from the Metropolitan Museum of Art The Hunt of the Unicorn, a series of seven tapestries (collectively known as the Unicorn Tapestries), is one of the most famous works of art ...

Spend Memorial Day in Northern Manhattan in lush Fort Tryon Park at The Cloisters Museum and Gardens, the branch of Spend Memorial Day in Northern Manhattan in lush Fort Tryon Park at The Cloisters ...

NEW YORK — The Cloisters is not so much a museum as a house for worship. It’s not only the powerful medieval artworks that inspire such reverence, but the setting as well. The museum was designed at ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- “Bust of the Virgin (ca. 1390-95) — Dignified, and poised, the Virgin tilts her youthful head as if burdened by the weight of the ornate crown, and her downcast eyes and pursed ...

A large crucifix hangs in the Romanesque Fuentidueña Apse. NEW YORK - High on a hill in the northwest corner of Manhattan is a mesmerizing world of medieval stones. They are cloisters, altars, apses ...

Carly Still, the woman in charge of the museum's bounty of plants and herbs, shares how she merged her loves of art and gardening. Carly Still, the Managing Horticulturalist at the Met Cloisters.