The MET Cloisters: "everything will be taken away"

Black and white photographs from the MET Cloisters, a reflection on what gets moved, and who decide$

When people think about The MET, most picture the flagship building on Fifth Avenue. Crowds, blockbuster exhibitions, the Temple of Dendur, Salvador Dali, and Monet paintings. The MET Cloisters is entirely different. It sits at the northern tip of Manhattan, overlooking the Hudson River from Fort Tryon Park, and most visitors never make it up there, bei…