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·4 days ago

Cycles of Life: The Four Seasons Tapestries

Robin Hanson, Conservator of Textiles and Sarah Scaturro, Eric and Jane Nord Chief Conservator For the exhibition Cycles of Life: The Four Seasons Tapestries, the CMA’s Textile Conservator Robin Hanson and Chief Conservator Sarah Scaturro took on dual roles — that of exhibition curators as well as conservators. This set…

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Cycles of Life: The Four Seasons Tapestries
Cycles of Life: The Four Seasons Tapestries

Published in CMA Thinker

·Jul 7

Fantastic Beasts in Chinese Culture and Where to Find Them

By Yiwen Liu, CMA Curatorial Research Assistant As a series of prequels to the Harry Potter movies, a third movie in the world of wizardry was recently released in the Fantastic Beasts series. Despite the new movie’s mixed reviews, it still provides a delightful new variety of cute and imaginative…

Fantastic Beasts

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Fantastic Beasts in Chinese Culture and Where to Find Them
Fantastic Beasts in Chinese Culture and Where to Find Them

Published in CMA Thinker

·Jun 30

All in the Family: The Men Behind the Armor

The Dazzling New Loans in the Armor Court — By Amanda Mikolic, Curatorial Assistant for the Department of Medieval Art Now on view in the Armor Court are four suits of armor made for members of the Habsburg family, currently on loan from the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna through 2024. The House of Habsburg was the dominating royal house…

Armor

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All in the Family: The Men Behind the Armor
All in the Family: The Men Behind the Armor

Published in CMA Thinker

·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

Published in CMA Thinker

·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. Amid a global pandemic, the Community Arts staff, construction crews, exhibition designers, and artists worked to furnish and enhance the Community Arts Center (CAC) which…

Community Engagement

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Looking Back and Dancing Forward
Looking Back and Dancing Forward

Published in CMA Thinker

·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. The recently opened Korean art rotation Creating Urgency: Modern…

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…

Sculpture

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An Obsession with Heads
An Obsession with Heads

Published in CMA Thinker

·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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