“Siren” by Maria Rybakova
The Cleveland Museum of Art and Literary Cleveland collaborated on a call for submissions following the theme of dark, fantastic, suspenseful, or just plain spooky writing inspired by the visionary art on view in the exhibition Collecting Dreams: Odilon Redon. This short story by Maria Rybakova is one of two…
Preparing for Picturing Motherhood Now
By Beth Edelstein, CMA Objects Conservator
Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes in preparing for a new exhibition? This fall is full of exciting new shows, and Picturing Motherhood Now, an exhibition that brings together works by a diverse range of contemporary artists to narrate an…
By Audrey Chan, Summer 2021 Warshawsky/Summer on the Cuyahoga Fellow in Interpretation at the CMA
In this essay, Audrey combines the descriptive and interpretive writing skills she learned during her summer fellowship with a poem to create a visual analysis of an artwork in the CMA’s collection.
When people reflect…
Connecting Visitors to the Collection with Daily Guided Tours
By Margie Moskovitz, CMA Docent
The Docent Program is a volunteer teaching service organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Department of Public and Academic Engagement. Docents interact with visitors and create lasting memories through tours of the finest artistic and cultural traditions represented in our collection. …
Crossing Paths in Post-Impressionist France
By Britany Salsbury, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings
Anyone who has visited Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889–1900, now in its last few days, may be tempted to draw connections to CMA’s upcoming exhibition Collecting Dreams: Odilon Redon.
At first glance, one…
By Beth Edelstein, CMA Objects Conservator
According to Sanskrit texts, Krishna, an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu, once hoisted a mountain overhead to shelter people and cattle from a mighty storm brought upon them by Indra, the god of rain and lightning, whom Krishna had angered. …
How Itinerant Artists Reinforce the Importance of Collections Management
By Cameron Findlay, 2021 Warshawsky Fellow in Collections Management at the CMA
Cameron Findlay was the 2021 Warshawsky Fellow in the CMA Collections Management Department where she worked on a long-term loan digitization project. …
Connecting Prints (1900–1940) and Photography (1920–1950)
You may have heard of Humans of New York, the project by Brandon Stanton involving the pictures and interviews collected on the streets of New York City. If you’ve ever visited NYC, you know what it’s like to be in the center of a city that never sleeps. …
Medieval Treasures from Münster Cathedral
By Viktoria Weinebeck, Curator at the Domkammer in Münster
One of CMA’s current exhibitions, “Medieval Treasures from Münster Cathedral” features a collection of relics and reliquaries kept in the Cathedral of Saint Paul in Münster, in northwestern Germany. For the medieval Christian, collections of relics and reliquaries held spiritual power…
