This past weekend, a group of medieval art students traveled with Professor Gertsman to New York City to see several incredible shows at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Morgan Library, and the Grolier Club! We were fortunate enough to get a guided tour of the Met Cloisters new special exhibition, “Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages” (co-curated by Dr. Melanie Holcomb, our keynote speaker for the Cleveland Symposium) from Griff Mann, Michel David-Weill Curator in Charge at the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters. We even spotted some familiar CMA objects that are on loan for this exhibition! Additionally, we were guided by Sharon Mintz, the Curator of Jewish Art at the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary, through the Grolier Club’s fabulous new show, “Jewish Worlds Illuminated: A Treasury of Hebrew Manuscripts from the JTS Library.” We would like to extend a thank-you to Griff Mann and Sharon Mintz for taking the time to share their expertise with us. And special thanks are in order for Professor Gertsman for organizing this fantastic trip.

See our (evolving) blog posts reflecting on the trip here!