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·Jun 16

Shedding New Light on an Ancient Bronze Figure

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…

Apollo

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Shedding New Light on an Ancient Bronze Figure
Shedding New Light on an Ancient Bronze Figure

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·Jun 9

Looking Back and Dancing Forward

Celebrating the First Anniversary of the CMA’s Community Arts Center — By Stefanie Taub, Director of Community Arts In step with the start of summer is the one-year anniversary of opening the CMA’s Community Arts Center. …

Community Engagement

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Looking Back and Dancing Forward
Looking Back and Dancing Forward

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·Jun 2

Queer Liberation and Intimacy: A Collective Journey

Finding Peace and Power through Connection — By Clovis Westlund, Student and LGBTQ+ Youth Advocate LGBTQ and racialized people have long been excluded from spaces that foster connection. With casual and repeated socialization, the mechanisms of othering and isolation take an immeasurable psychological toll on those deemed unfit for these spaces. Such trauma has cost many queer…

Pride Month

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Queer Liberation and Intimacy: A Collective Journey
Queer Liberation and Intimacy: A Collective Journey

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·May 27

Framing the Essence of a Fashion Figure

By Darnell-Jamal Lisby, CMA Assistant Curator Fashion is an art form that has an uncanny ability to emotionally connect with us because of its…

Fashion

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Framing the Essence of a Fashion Figure
Framing the Essence of a Fashion Figure

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·May 18

Diasporas in Modern and Contemporary Korean Art

By Sooa McCormick, CMA Curator of Korean Art This year, in honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, the museum recognizes the array of diversity within the myriad AAPI identities and cultures. …

Korean Dramas

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Diasporas in Modern and Contemporary Korean Art
Diasporas in Modern and Contemporary Korean Art

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·May 13

An Obsession with Heads

The Impact of African Arts, Anthropology, and Photography on the Works of Alberto Giacometti — By Kristen Windmuller-Luna, Curator of African Arts Sometimes when I walk through the CMA’s galleries, I see someone with a sketchbook drawing a sculpture. What is lost — and what is gained — as they translate its three dimensions into two, moving the work from pedestal to paper? I’ve also…

Sculpture

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An Obsession with Heads
An Obsession with Heads

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·May 5

Gone Fishing . . . for a New Inuit Print

By Amanda Mikolic, Curatorial Assistant New in gallery 231 is Devil Fish, a stonecut print by Alec (Peter) Aliknak Banksland (1928–1998); Aliknak, who preferred to be called by his Inuit name, spent most of his life in Ulukhaktok (previously Holman), a village north of the Arctic Circle in Canada’s Northwest…

Fishing

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Gone Fishing . . . for a New Inuit Print
Gone Fishing . . . for a New Inuit Print

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·Apr 28

Detoxing in the “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”

A Close Reading of a Japanese Painting — By Sinéad Vilbar, CMA Curator of Japanese Art Literature was a major component of entertainment in Japan’s Edo period (1615–1868). In the new rotation of the CMA’s Japanese art galleries, many of the works relate to poetry, novels, and theatrical performances. Literature provided people with a common culture for conversations…

Japanese Culture

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Detoxing in the “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”
Detoxing in the “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”

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·Apr 21

Earth without Art Is Just … “Eh”

Unearthing Natural Pigments in the CMA’s Collection — By Katie Rovito, third Year Graduate Intern in Paintings Conservation, and Elena Mars, Samuel H. Kress Fellow in Objects Conservation at the CMA Throughout history, artists have used earth’s natural resources to create works of art. These can come from a variety of sources including rocks, minerals, clays, and even…

Earth Day

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Earth without Art Is Just … “Eh”
Earth without Art Is Just … “Eh”

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·Apr 13

Art Inspiring Science: The Moche Bat

By Susan Bergh, Curator of Pre-Columbian and Native North American Art and Amanda Mikolic, Curatorial Assistant In 2012, Dr. Paúl Velazco, a Peruvian mammologist who serves as a visiting assistant professor at Arcadia University and research associate at New York’s American Museum of Natural History, collected two bats of a…

Bats

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Art Inspiring Science: The Moche Bat
Art Inspiring Science: The Moche Bat
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