Image courtesy of The Met Cloisters
Title: Tour of the Cloisters Library and Archives
Date & Time: Monday, August 4, 2025, at 3:45 PM (Tour begins promptly at 4:00 PM)
Capacity: 15
Duration: 60 minutes
Admission: Free! (ART Members only)
Location: Cloisters Library and Archives, 99 Margaret Corbin Drive, Fort Tryon Park, New York, NY, 10040
Join us for a tour of the Cloisters Library and Archives. Museum Librarian Michael Carter will welcome ART members and discuss the rich research collection for the study of medieval art and related topics. The collection consists of approximately 15,000 volumes of medieval architecture, painting, illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, sculpture, and decorative arts. The tour will move through the three different spaces the library and archives occupy in The Cloisters, with discussion and conversation on collections, acquisitions, and processing histories.
This is an in-person event limited to 15 ART members. Registration is non-transferable. Please note that you MUST reserve a ticket in advance online in order to attend this event. In the occasion that the event is sold out, we highly recommend joining the waitlist. An ART staff member will reach out to you if a spot becomes available. Unless you've been given permission, please do not show up at the event without registering.
Directions / Transportation:
By Subway/Bus
Take the A train to 190th Street and exit the station by elevator. Walk north along Margaret Corbin Drive for approximately 10 minutes or transfer to the M4 bus and ride north one stop.
By Car
Take Henry Hudson Parkway northbound to the first exit after George Washington Bridge (Fort Tryon Park—The Cloisters). This exit is only accessible from the northbound lane; if coming from the north, take Henry Hudson Parkway southbound to exit 14–15, make a U-turn, and travel north one mile to the exit marked Fort Tryon Park—The Cloisters.
ABOUT
The Cloisters Library collects research material for the study of medieval art and related topics. The collection of approximately 15,000 volumes encompasses medieval architecture, painting, illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, sculpture, and decorative arts. Works on medieval history and gardens are also collected. The archives contain material relating to the history of the museum such as papers of James J. Rorimer, the museum's founding director, and George Grey Barnard, who amassed the core of its collection. Also held are the papers of medieval art historians Sumner McKnight Crosby and Harry Bober, Walter W.S. Cook, and art dealers Joseph and Ernest Brummer, and others.
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Please note that by registering and attending this event/webinar, you automatically grant your consent to be photographed and/ or video-recorded and to the release, publication, or reproduction of any and all recorded media of your appearance, voice, and name for any purpose whatsoever in perpetuity in connection with the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York, Inc. and its initiatives, including, by way of example only, use on websites, in social media, news, newsletters, Metropolitan Archivist, and advertising.
Photograph of Joan Didion in the Vogue Art Department, c. 1958. Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
Title: “Up Close and Personal”: The Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne papers at The New York Public Library
Date & Time: Tuesday, August 5th; 5:45PM Tour begins promptly at 6:00PM
Capacity: 25
Admission: Free! (Open to the ART Members and Non-members)
Location: New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Marshall Rose Plaza entrance, located on West 40th street between 5th and 6th Ave (see below for more information)
Join the staff of The New York Public Library for a behind-the-scenes look at the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne papers, which opened to the public in March 2025. Selections from the collection will be displayed that showcase the breadth and detail of the collection, which offers an intimate view into the minds and process of two towering figures in American letters. Hear from the curators, processing archivists, and public service teams who worked closely together to open these incredible papers for public use.
This is an in-person event limited to 25 attendees. Registration is non-transferable. Please note that you MUST reserve a ticket in advance online in order to attend this event.
In the occasion that the event is sold out, we highly recommend joining the waitlist. An ART staff member will reach out to you if a spot becomes available. Unless you've been given permission, please do not show up at the event without registering.
How to find the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne Papers at the NYPL
The collection is located in the New York Public Library Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. The building is easily accessible by most major MTA subway lines that travel to 42nd St, including the B, D, F, M, 4, 5, 6, 7, N, Q, and R.
Meeting location
Attendees will meet an NYPL staff member at the Marshall Rose Plaza entrance, located on 40th street between 5th and 6th Ave, at 5:45PM. Those arriving late can proceed directly to the Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Room 328, located at the north end of the Rose Main Reading Room on the third floor.
About
The archive of Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne was made publicly available on March 26, 2025. Comprised of 336 boxes of items, most of which have never been seen publicly, the archive represents the most comprehensive collection of the authors’ materials, containing candid photos of Didion and Dunne’s childhoods and early careers, courtship and marriage, family and social life; drafts of over two dozen co-written screenplays that reveal their collaborative writing and editing process; and correspondence spanning six decades with important figures, including Margaret Atwood, Nora Ephron, Diane Keaton, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Jacqueline Onassis, Philip Roth, and Tennessee Williams.
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