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…

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…

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. …

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…