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Shaping the Future of Korean Art

By Sooa Im McCormick, Curator of Korean Art — The recent acquisitions Cityscape of Pyongyang and Umber-Black highlight the Cleveland Museum of Art’s conscious efforts to acquire a wide variety of Korean works of art, not only to deepen its historical art collection, but also to expand its frontier to include modern and contemporary art (figs. 1, 5). With…

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Shaping the Future of Korean Art
Shaping the Future of Korean Art

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A New Pastel Portrait for Cleveland

By Emily J. Peters, Curator of Prints and Drawings — Prized for its brilliant coloring and matte surface, the pastel medium was used by artists in Europe as early as the 16th century. But it was the 18th century that saw the zenith of the medium, coinciding with the enormous rise in popularity of portraiture as an artistic genre. …

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A New Pastel Portrait for Cleveland
A New Pastel Portrait for Cleveland

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All That Glitters . . . Is Indeed Gold (part 2)

By Robin Hanson, Conservator of Textiles, The Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holly Witchey, Adjunct Professor, Department of Art History and Art, Case Western Reserve University —

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All That Glitters . . . Is Indeed Gold (part 2)
All That Glitters . . . Is Indeed Gold (part 2)

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The Conservation of Venus Discovering the Dead Adonis and the Missing Boar

By Dean Yoder, Senior Conservator of Paintings and Head of Paintings Conservation — Venus Discovering the Dead Adonis, one of the most important and powerful Italian Baroque paintings in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA), is undergoing a multiyear conservation effort (fig. 1). The mythological story of Venus and Adonis owes its origin to Ovid’s Metamorphoses. This interpretation is probably…

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The Conservation of Venus Discovering the Dead Adonis and the Missing Boar
The Conservation of Venus Discovering the Dead Adonis and the Missing Boar

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Photographs in Ink

Benjamin Levy, Guest Curator and PhD Candidate at Case Western Reserve University The exhibition Photographs in Ink, on view through April 2, 2023, looks at the intersection of photography and printmaking. Whether used for visual communication or creative expression, photographic images produced in printer’s ink have increasingly saturated our daily…

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Photographs in Ink
Photographs in Ink

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·Nov 10

A Hidden Gem: Nigeria Magazine at the CMA’s Ingalls Library

By Helina Gebremedhen, Leigh and Mary Carter Director’s Research Fellow — Love modern and contemporary African arts, heritage, and literature? Come to the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Ingalls Library to browse through issues of Nigeria Magazine and read about the country’s thriving arts and culture scene between the 1960s and 1980s (fig. 1). …

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A Hidden Gem: Nigeria Magazine at the CMA’s Ingalls Library
A Hidden Gem: Nigeria Magazine at the CMA’s Ingalls Library

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·Oct 13

Traveling through the Archives: Digitizing the Travel Sketchbooks of Frances Prindle Taft

By Madalyn Rehrman, Ingalls Library Summer on the Cuyahoga Intern — As a digitization intern at the Ingalls Library and Museum Archives this summer, I’ve had the great fortune to work with several different objects, ranging from rare folios that have just recently entered the public domain to archival materials from the Frances Prindle Taft Collection. Frances Prindle Taft (1921–2017) was…

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Traveling through the Archives: Digitizing the Travel Sketchbooks of Frances Prindle Taft
Traveling through the Archives: Digitizing the Travel Sketchbooks of Frances Prindle Taft

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·Oct 6

Degas and the Laundress: Thinking about the (In)visibility of Women’s Labor in Impressionism

By Jillian Kruse, Curatorial Intern in Prints and Drawings and PhD Candidate at Case Western Reserve University — For many, the word Impressionism conjures images of light-filled landscapes, ballerinas, or fashionably dressed women at the opera, in a garden or park, or at the seaside. Yet, as the Cleveland Museum of Art’s exhibition Degas and the Laundress reveals, women’s labor was an equally important subject in Impressionism (fig…

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Degas and the Laundress: Thinking about the (In)visibility of Women’s Labor in Impressionism
Degas and the Laundress: Thinking about the (In)visibility of Women’s Labor in Impressionism

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·Sep 13

Annual Chalk Festival

By Stefanie Lima Taub, Director of Community Arts — When everyone has finished their drawings and gone home, and all the supplies have been packed up for next year, I love to take a moment and stand at the top of the Fine Arts Garden to bask in the abounding creativity that has just occurred in front of my…

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Annual Chalk Festival
Annual Chalk Festival

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·Jul 21

A Seating Arrangement for God

By Justin Willson, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Art History Leadership, The Cleveland Museum of Art / Case Western Reserve University — Seating arrangements shape many of our activities, from business meetings, concerts, and meals to car rides, graduation ceremonies, and weddings. One might go so far as to say that where we sit is a fundamental human concern. …

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A Seating Arrangement for God
A Seating Arrangement for God

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