A remarkable, landmark exhibition is hiding in plain sight in the print galleries of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Organized by Emily Peters, the museum’s print curator, the show presents an amazing selection of masterpieces, and it has wall labels that glow with superb scholarship. It’s a world-class production. That said, it’s not a show for the casual viewer who […]
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July 30, while on vacation overseas without a computer, I received on my phone, from the Cleveland Museum of Art, a list of corrections and clarifications to Henry Adams’ review of Lake Effect: Artists from Cleveland Now, on view at Transformer Station July 9 – December 6, 2026 . The re-edited version of the review below was completed on my […]
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Before laying eyes on Ann Hamilton: still and moving • the tactile image at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA), visitors first make contact through sound at a distance. A pair of pole-mounted Leslie speakers beckons museum-goers with mysterious pings, chirps, and whistles.[1] Entering the first of two rooms that make up this exhibition, viewers encounter a theatrical presentation in […]
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April 16 – 19th the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Ames Family Atrium will host the Print Club of Cleveland’s 41st annual Fine Print Fair. The festivities begin with a preview party for ticketed guests on the evening of Thursday, April 16, before the fair opens to the public and runs through April 19. With the exception of the preview party, […]
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Maruja Limón is a Barcelona-based sextet forging their own path through flamenco, pop, Latin, rumba, and electronic experimentation. Since their debut album Más de ti (2018) — named one of the best Spanish records of the year — they’ve appeared on festival stages across Europe and Morocco, earned a Billboard feature, and most recently, a U.S. tour performing at Lincoln […]
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It’s not the May Show, but the Cleveland Museum of Art did not beat around the bush in announcing Lake Effect—a new juried exhibition of contemporary art of Northeast Ohio, to be produced by the Museum this year at Transformer Station. In fact the Museum says directly, “Drawing inspiration from the museum’s historic May Show—an annual exhibition that for decades […]
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The Cleveland Museum of Art’s exhibition Renaissance to Runway: The Enduring Italian Houses reads less like a conventional museum experience than an imagined passage through the studio of an Italian fashion house. One readily envisions sumptuous textiles transformed into exquisite garments and ensembles, animated by mannequins and staged against the backdrop of Old Master paintings. Forgoing heavy-handed interpretive framing, Associate […]
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It is not often that the Cleveland Museum of Art constructs an exhibition centered around a single object. Even more rare is an exhibition that focuses on revealing the object’s extensive conservation history. Though the CMA has encouraged discussion around conservation in the past—such as with objects like the Cambodian sculpture Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan (c.600) and Caravaggio’s The Crucifixion […]
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One of the most dazzling and best-curated exhibitions on view in Northeast Ohio in many years is the exhibition on the Cleveland firm Rose Iron Works currently in view in the Focus Gallery, just off the main entrance of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Organized by the museum’s curator of decorative arts, Ada de Wit, it’s visually outstanding, and also […]
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Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior premiered at the Palazzo Soranzo van Axel in Venice, (April 20–October 20, 2024) as a collateral event of the 60th International La Biennale di Venezia. The U.S. iterations are co-organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cincinnati Art Museum. This is the most comprehensive presentation of the Pakistani American artist’s work to date, bringing together 40 pieces […]
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