By Key Jo Lee, associate curator of American art Some of the reasons why curators place certain objects in certain places in the galleries are very apparent. This is by design. Typically, the goal is for each artwork to tell some part of a larger story that illuminates a time…

By Marissa Maynard The Cleveland Museum of Art’s (CMA) superb photography collection encompasses the history of the medium and offers a tremendous range, from cased photographs to salted paper prints to colored digital prints. For most photographic processes, the image layer is composed of silver particles in an emulsion. Some…

By Dr. Tameka Ellington, Speaker, Author, and Cocurator of “TEXTURES: the history and art of Black hair” People of African descent have hair that is like no other race of people. It is the number one racial identifier, skin tone being the second. Afro or Black hair grows out of…

By Michelle Orioha, CMA Student Guide The CMA Student Guide Program is the museum’s undergraduate training program. Students learn close-looking and engagement techniques and are given a variety of research and educational projects to draw connections between art and its relevance to our lives today. …

Robin Hanson, Conservator of Textiles and Sarah Scaturro, Eric and Jane Nord Chief Conservator For the exhibition Cycles of Life: The Four Seasons Tapestries, the CMA’s Textile Conservator Robin Hanson and Chief Conservator Sarah Scaturro took on dual roles — that of exhibition curators as well as conservators. This set…

By Yiwen Liu, CMA Curatorial Research Assistant As a series of prequels to the Harry Potter movies, a third movie in the world of wizardry was recently released in the Fantastic Beasts series. Despite the new movie’s mixed reviews, it still provides a delightful new variety of cute and imaginative…

The Dazzling New Loans in the Armor Court — By Amanda Mikolic, Curatorial Assistant for the Department of Medieval Art Now on view in the Armor Court are four suits of armor made for members of the Habsburg family, currently on loan from the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna through 2024. The House of Habsburg was the dominating royal house…

Ongoing Research on the Cleveland Apollo — By Seth Pevnick, Curator of Greek and Roman Art and Colleen Snyder, Associate Conservator of Objects Since its acquisition nearly 20 years ago, the Cleveland Apollo (Fig. 1), a rare example of a nearly life-sized ancient bronze sculpture, has become a CMA favorite. The young Greek god welcomes visitors from…