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Published in CMA Thinker

·5 days ago

CMA Open Access: Celebrating Our Fourth Anniversary

From the Digital Innovations and Technology Services team Looking Back It’s hard to believe that January marks four years of open access at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Since the 2019 launch the CMA continues to invest in its open access program, inspired by Director William Griswold’s words announcing the CMA’s open…

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CMA Open Access: Celebrating Our Fourth Anniversary
CMA Open Access: Celebrating Our Fourth Anniversary

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Published in CMA Thinker

·Jan 13

Celebrating MLK — It Starts with Me

By Bill Griswold, Director and President On Monday, January 16, the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) opens its doors and special exhibitions — as we do every year — for a free daylong celebration honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It seems fitting that we also reflect on…

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Celebrating MLK — It Starts with Me
Celebrating MLK — It Starts with Me

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Published in CMA Thinker

·Updated Jan 6

All That Glitters . . . Is Indeed Gold

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 A seldom-seen object in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s collection is this extraordinary Lord Chancellor’s burse (fig. 1). The burse entered the collection in…

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All That Glitters . . . Is Indeed Gold
All That Glitters . . . Is Indeed Gold

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Published in CMA Thinker

·Dec 2, 2022

The Thinker Blog

The Motrola to MIX: A Brief History of the Performing Arts at the CMA By Gabe Pollack, Director of Performing Arts Ten years ago, when I was working as a sound engineer at Nighttown, the famed Cleveland Heights jazz club, Tom Welsh and I swapped business cards after we had a conversation about Cleveland’s musical landscape. …

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The Thinker Blog
The Thinker Blog

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Published in CMA Thinker

·Nov 18, 2022

Transatlantic Tales: Cultural Exchange Brings Treasures to Cleveland

By Emily J. Peters, Curator of Prints and Drawings The current exhibition Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel, on view through January 8, 2023, in the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Exhibition Gallery, is a celebration of astounding ingenuity and remarkable collaboration. The exhibition…

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Transatlantic Tales: Cultural Exchange Brings Treasures to Cleveland
Transatlantic Tales: Cultural Exchange Brings Treasures to Cleveland

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Published in CMA Thinker

·Nov 11, 2022

The Art of Collecting

By Heather Lemonedes Brown, CMA Deputy Director and Chief Curator The exhibition Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection celebrates the gift of more than 100 works of art from the collection of Clevelanders Nancy and Joe Keithley. Amassed over more than twenty years, their collection focuses on Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and…

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The Art of Collecting
The Art of Collecting

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Published in CMA Thinker

·Nov 4, 2022

New Voices of an Age-Old Art Form: An interview with artist Cao Ou

By Yiwen Liu, CMA Curatorial Research Assistant Reconstructed Landscape No. 10 by Cao Ou (曹欧, born 1987) featured in the CMA’s Chinese rotation Modern Impressions (through May 7, 2023, Gallery 240A) is a visually striking example by a contemporary artist to continue and revive Chinese woodblock printing (fig. 1). The…

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New Voices of an Age-Old Art Form: An interview with artist Cao Ou
New Voices of an Age-Old Art Form: An interview with artist Cao Ou

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Published in CMA Thinker

·Oct 28, 2022

New on View: Modern Japan

By Sinéad Vilbar, Curator of Japanese Art Our staff completed installation of the latest iteration of the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Japanese Art Galleries (235A–B) on October 14. While we say so long for now to the standouts from the holdings of ukiyo-e paintings and prints that showed us…

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New on View: Modern Japan
New on View: Modern Japan

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Published in CMA Thinker

·Oct 21, 2022

Component Parts of Collections Management: Who’s Who?

By Sydney Slacas, Assistant Registrar When you visit the Cleveland Museum of Art, have you ever thought about who cares for the extraordinary collection? With the collection spanning nearly 6,000 years of artistic achievement, the CMA’s Collections Management team works hard every day to install exhibitions, coordinate art shipments, complete…

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Component Parts of Collections Management: Who’s Who?
Component Parts of Collections Management: Who’s Who?

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Published in CMA Thinker

·Oct 14, 2022

Looking into the Wishing Well

By Matthew Gengler, Access Services and Reference Librarian In a pivotal scene from The Kid from Cleveland, actors George Brent and a young Russ Tamblyn stand over the Cleveland Museum of Art’s wishing well. Tamblyn, playing the kid, is invited to make a wish Johnny. The movie, set in 1949…

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Looking into the Wishing Well
Looking into the Wishing Well

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