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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…