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The Cloisters in popular culture

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'''The Cloisters''' is a branch of New York City's [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], which houses the institution's collection of [[Medieval art]]. Located in [[Fort Tryon Park]] in [[Upper Manhattan]], [[The Cloisters]] opened in 1938. It has been featured and referenced in many works of popular culture since then.

==Literature==
*'''1953''' &ndash; A 12th century sculpture from The Cloisters collection carries a curse which causes the death of a [[Ziegfeld girl]] in [[Russell Janney]]'s ''So Long As Love Remembers''.<ref name=popcult />
*'''1955''' &ndash; A kiss in the Heather Garden of [[Fort Tryon Park]] and a visit to The Cloisters are memories which resonate throughout [[Herman Wouk]]'s novel ''[[Marjorie Morningstar (novel)|Marjorie Morningstar]]''.<ref name=popcult />
*'''1994''' &ndash; [[James Morrow]]'s ''[[Towing Jehovah]]'' has its protagonist meet the [[Archangel Raphael]] after taking a ritual bath in the [[The Cloisters#Cuxa|Cux Cloister]] fountain at midnight.<ref name=popcult /><ref name=fiction />
*'''2002''' &ndash; [[Richard Powers]]' ''The Year of Our Singing'' is set in The Cloisters.<ref name=fiction />
*'''2002''' &ndash; The main character in [[James Lasdun]]'s ''The Horned Man'' visits the [[Unicorn Tapestries]] to find the meaning of a growth on his head.<ref name=popcult />
*'''2003''' &ndash; In ''The Bone Vault'' by [[Linda Fairstein]] , the body of a Cloisters research assistant is found inside an Egyptian [[sarcophagus]].<ref name=popcult />
*'''2003''' &ndash; The main character of [[Han Nolan]]'s novel ''When We Were Saints'' meets a Southern boy who she believes shares her spiritual power. She takes him to live in The Cloisters, where the birchwood statue of the "Enthroned Virgin and Child" from [[Autun, France]] causes a dispute between them.<ref name=popcult />
*'''2006''' &ndash; In [[Mary Pope Osborne]]'s children's book ''Blizzard of the Blue Moon'', the main characters. Grinda and Balor, are sent back to 1938, the year The Cloisters opened, in order to free the unicorn from the [[Unicorn Tapestries]].<ref name=popcult />
*'''2007''' &ndash; In ''When Day Breaks'' by [[Mary Jane Clark]], a murder investigation revolves around the theft of a unicorn [[amulet]], and ends with a deadly fall off the ramparts of The Cloisters.<ref name=popcult />
*'''2010''' &ndash; A fog which passes through The Cloisters brings to life a [[manticore]] in the Narbonne arch door which attacks the narrator of [[Lee Carroll]]'s ''Black Swan Rising''. ("Lee Carroll" is [[Carol Goodman]] and [[Lee Slonimsky]].)<ref name=popcult /><ref name=fiction />
*'''2011''' &ndash; In [[Chris Humphreys|C.C. Humphreys]]' young adult novel ''The Hunt of the Unicorn'' the protagonist is pulled into the "Unicorn in Captivity" tapestry during a school field trip, and ends up in a fantasy world with a unicorn named Moonspill.<ref name=popcult /><ref name=fiction />
*'''2012''' &ndash; The Autun "Enthroned Virgin and Child" creates a strong bond between the narrator and a dead friend in [[Carol Rifka Brunt]]'s ''Tell the World I'm Home''.<ref name=popcult />
*''2017'' &ndash; In [[Carol Goodman]]'s young adult novel ''The Metropolitans'', set in The Cloisters, a carved stone [[basilisk]] from the Narbonne arch doorway features in the plot.<ref name=fiction />
*'''2018''' &ndash; In ''The Cloister'', [[James Carroll (author)|James Carroll]] tells the story of two relationships that are linked together across 800 years.<ref name=fiction>Niedan, Christian (June 13, 2019) [https://ift.tt/2YadO0C "Cloisters in Fiction"] ''Across the Margin''</ref>

==Poetry==
*'''1961''' &ndash; [[Leonard Cohen]] published ''The Spice Box Of Earth'', a collection of poems including "The Unicorn Tapestries".
*'''1946''' &ndash; The [[Unicorn Tapestries]] inspired poet [[Anne Morrow Lindbergh]] to writes a series of poems published in ''The Unicorn and Other Poems 1935–1955''.<ref name=popcult />
*'''1981''' &ndash; [[Jorge Luis Borges]]' poem "The Cloisters", from ''La Cifra'' presents the sense of timelessness that resonates in The Cloisters.<ref name=popcult /><ref name=fiction />

==Comics==
*'''1980''' &ndash; [[Spider-man]] dueled the Rapier in The Cloisters.<ref name=popcult />
*'''2008''' &ndash; [[Nightwing]] becomes the curator of the museum, which he closes for "renovations" for several months, while in actuality using its offices as his base of operations, having sent home the entire staff.<ref name=popcult />

==Film==
*'''1948''' &ndash; In the film ''[[Portrait of Jennie]]'', starring [[Joseph Cotten]], [[Jennifer Jones]] and [[Ethel Barrymore]], The Cloisters was used as the location for a convent school.<ref name=popcult></ref>
*'''1948''' &ndash; [[Maya Deren]], an experimental filmaker, utilized the ramparts of The Cloisters and the view of [[The Palisades (Hudson River)|The Palisades]] for her short film ''[[Meditation on Violence]]''.<ref name=popcult />
*'''1976 - 2000''' &ndash; In the films ''[[The Front]]'' (directed by [[Martin Ritt]], 1976), ''[[The Devil's Own]]'' ([[Alan J. Pakula]], 1997) and ''[[Keeping the Faith]]'' ([[Edward Norton]], 2000), characters visit the gardens of The Cloisters as a place to get away from the city and their problems.<ref name=popcult />
*'''1968''' &ndash; Two scenes in ''[[Coogan's Bluff]]'', starring [[Clint Eastwood]], were filmed in [[Fort Tryon Park]], including a shoot-out at The Cloisters and a motorcycle chase in the Heather Garden.<ref name=popcult/>
*'''1994''' &ndash; The film ''[[Amateur (1994 film)|Amateur]]'' by [[Hal Hartley]] used The Cloisters as the home of the nun ([[Isabelle Huppert]]) who writes adult fiction.<ref name=popcult />
*'''1996''' &ndash; The Cloisters was used as a setting for ''[[Looking for Richard]]'', [[Al Pacino]]'s documentary about performing [[William Shakespeare]]'s play ''[[Richard III]]''.<ref name=popcult />
*'''2009''' &ndash; In Julio Depietro's [[romantic comedy]] ''[[The Good Guy (film)|The Good Guy]]'', a young couple sneaks into rhe [[The Cloisters#Bonnefont|Bonnefont Cloister]] for a romantic candlelit evening.<ref name=popcult />

==Television==
*'''1994''' &ndash; In season 1, episode 7 of the animated TV series ''[[Gargoyles (TV series)|Gargoyles]]'' ("Temptation", first broadcast on November 11, 1994), the gargoyles [[Demona]] and [[Brooklyn (gargoyle)|Brooklyn]] of the [[Manhattan Clan]] fight at The Cloisters.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2KBBJOr "Recap / Gargoyles S 1 Temptation"] ''[[TV Tropes]]''</ref>
*'''2018''' &ndash; In season 7, episode 7 of the animated TV series ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' ("The Unicorn in Captivity", first broadcast on September 16, 2018), Dr. Venture attends a party at The Cloisters which is similar to the orgy in [[Stanley Kubrick]]'s 1999 film ''[[Eyes Wide Shut]]'', however it is only virtual reality he is unknowingly experiencing.<ref>Hau, Eric (September 16, 2018) [https://ift.tt/3bJJKgq "Review: The Venture Bros. 'The Unicorn in Captivity'"] ''Bubbleblabber''</ref>

==See also==
*[[The Hunt of the Unicorn#In popular culture|"The Unicorn Tapestries" in popular culture]]

==References==


[[Category:Metropolitan Museum of Art]]


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