Thank you to everyone who participated in our contest and congratulations to Blaire Bomber for winning the drawing! She correctly answered that the first painting is the fake and the second is the real Vermeer. For answering correctly and winning the drawing Blaire will be receiving a copy of Jonathan Lopez’s book The Man Who Made Vermeers.
You’ve heard of Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster and Balloon Boy, but have you ever heard of Han van Meegeren, the man who forged Vermeer paintings and fooled the Nazis?
If you couldn’t make it to our first TGIF event or really enjoyed the first one then we have some good news for you. This Friday we’re having another happy hour at the museum and this time we’ll be offering something a little unusual. Instead of wine, we’ll be serving absinthe, the other iconic French drink. We’ll be staging our own l’heure verte (the green hour) from 5:30 to 9:00 p.m., just as Gauguin would have.
Thanks to everyone who came out on Friday and helped to make our first TGIF such a success! We hope you had as much fun as we did. If you didn’t make it, you missed quite the party. Wine was flowing freely and everyone had a blast mingling amid the music. If Gauguin could have been there he would definitely have said c'est magnifique! To say the least, everyone enjoyed the fine French wines, the delectable h'ordeuvres and all the amazing art in the Gauguin exhibition. Who wouldn’t have fun with that?
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clip_image00211.jpgFashion designers are descending on Cleveland this Sunday for the 6th Annual Wearable Art Fashion Show and Boutique hosted by the Textile Art Alliance of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
“The first stage is like ordinary drinking, the second when you begin to see monstrous and cruel things, but if you can persevere you will enter in upon the third stage where you see things that you want to see, wonderful curious things.” – Oscar Wilde on drinking absinthe
The Green Muse, El Diablo Verde, the Green Curse of France, whatever you call it absinthe is a force to be reckoned with. This highly alcoholic liquor made of distilled herbs most notably wormwood, green anise, and fennel tastes like black licorice and looks like Scope.
Now that everyone is back to school and working hard, CMA is inviting Cleveland’s college students to take time off and come over for a night of intrigue. You won’t see any Natty Light, beer pong or frat boys in togas, but there will be food, a murder mystery game in the galleries, dancing, and silent movies. Music will be provided by local DJs including Christine from stonecoldbikini of WRUW 91.1FM and Lawrence Daniel Caswell from No Ways Tired of WCS
300ewliza_image_b-w_tiff1.jpgWhile her classmates toyed with new media or tried to reinvent painting in the late 1980s, Liza Lou walked into a bead store, found her medium, and kept right on walking away from mainstream artmaking.
The 5th season of the VIVA! & Gala performing arts series is upon us with 14 outstanding performances from 11 countries around the world.
