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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Nadiah Rivera Fellah, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art Those who have visited the Cleveland Museum of Art’s galleries recently may have come across a stunning temporary installation in the museum’s Betty T. and David M. Schneider Gallery (218), sometimes called the east wing glass box. This site-specific, immersive installation is…

By Sara Kunkemueller, Digitization Intern, Ingalls Library and Museum Archives This summer, I joined the Ingalls Library and Museum Archives as a digitization intern. My work involved several projects, from updating metadata to scanning books for the Internet Archive, but much of my time was dedicated to digitizing artists’ collections…

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…