Now in its second decade, Collective Arts Network is proud to announce archiving partnerships with five of Northeast Ohio’s most respected libraries and collecting institutions: The Cleveland Museum of Art Ingalls Library, Case Western Reserve University Kelvin Smith Library, Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland Institute of Art’s Jessica R. Gund Memorial Library, and Artists Archives of the Western Reserve. The project […]
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Laundry. Whether the word evokes dazzling white sheets billowing along a clothesline or a basket brimming with unmentionables, the uniquely human task is as universal as it is mundane. However it’s perceived, the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is elevating the humble work of washing and ironing with Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism. “The exhibition looks at […]
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Transformer Station has begun its next chapter. In July, The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) assumed ownership, management, and daily operations. In this new era, Transformer Station serves as a Near West satellite location for CMA exhibitions and programs, offering contemporary art installations, presenting the work of emerging artists, time-based media, live music, and dynamic social experiences in Ohio City’s […]
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There are a few things I miss about living in Cleveland, proximity to my son Noah being #1, but if you pressed me about naming a specific public space I’ve pined for most since departing for Knoxville last year it would have to be the Cleveland Museum of Art. I took serious advantage of its availability through the 15 years […]
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In 2011, Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell and the Cleveland Museum of Art announced a unique partnership that allowed the art-collecting Bidwells to launch exhibitions featuring their extensive holdings for six months each year, and allowed the museum to create a permanent presence for contemporary art on the Near West Side—an area long known as Ohio City, recently branded by […]
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Unfortunately, I’m not very plugged into the FRONT International Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art in 2022. I’m moving out of town and haven’t had the time, blah blah blah. Fortunately, my farewell ramble through the Cleveland Museum of Art brought me to the Glass Box gallery (#218) and the vast ocean of all possibilities, an electrifying installation by Firelei Baez. […]
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The thirty works currently on view in the James and Hanna Bartlett Prints and Drawings Gallery are all by women, which is surprisingly a first for the Cleveland Museum of Art. Not that they haven’t shown the work of women printmakers before—there was a 2002-2003 exhibition of Elizabeth Catlett’s prints and sculpture, although of course that’s an entirely different kind […]
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At the time of its conception more than five years ago, no one could have conceived the ways the Cleveland Museum of Art’s exhibit Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis would coincidentally connect to contemporary experience in 2021. Private Lives gathers paintings and prints from a group of late 19th-century artists in Paris. Members of […]
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Laura Owens (American, b. 1970). Oil, Flashe, and screenprinting ink on linen; 69 x 60 in. Copyright Laura Owens. Courtesy of the artist; Sadie Coles HQ, London; and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne. Photography by Jason Mandella On view at Transformer Station February 27 – May 30, Rerun is a homecoming for artist Laura Owens, who was raised in Norwalk, […]
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It’s not just anyone who can donate of a body of work to the Cleveland Museum of Art and have it accepted, much less exhibited in a one-person career-spanning retrospective. But Ann Baumann’s 2005 gift of works by her father Gustave Baumann made the cut. Indeed, the museum followed the artist’s career since the early 20th century, lucky for us. […]
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