Upcoming Exhibitions
The third contemporary art installation in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Glass Box gallery space centers around Damián Ortega’s (Mexican, b. 1967) impressive, suspended sculpture The Controller of the Universe.
Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, and Frank Stella are among the artists represented in this show of about 50 works from the 1960s and 1970s when a style of flat geometric shapes was popular.
The exhibit will be a trimmed-down version of an exhibition organized by the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee. Weems is known for works addressing topics of race, class, and gender.
The Chinese artist named by Time magazine as among the 10 most persecuted artists in the world for having suffered at the hands of the Chinese government will exhibit cast bronze animal heads inspired by an 18th-century Chinese zodiac clock.
The Cleveland Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles are collaborating to bring together 150 objects exploring ancient Sicilian culture from the fifth to the third centuries B.C.
This Focus Gallery show will share what the museum has learned about Apollo Sauroktonos, the ancient bronze sculpture acquired by the museum in 2004.
Hank Willis Thomas uses photography, video, the web, and installations to examine how history and culture are framed, who is doing the framing, and how these factors affect our views of society.
This exhibition was inspired by the museum’s 2012 acquisition of six of the artist’s works, all of which will be on view, and is the artist’s largest museum show to date as well as his first in northeast Ohio. It will be on view simultaneously at the Cleveland Museum of Art from October 20, 2013 to March 9, 2014 and at the Transformer Station from December 14, 2013 to March 8, 2014.
This exhibition will take a deep look at a rare collection of African objects acquired by the museum in 2010.
The Cleveland Museum of Art will present Remaking Tradition: Modern Art of Japan which features over 50 masterpieces of modern Japanese art from the Tokyo National Museum. Exhibition highlights include six objects considered ‘Important Cultural Properties of Japan.’ These include Dancing Lady Maiko Girl by Kuroda Seiki and Portrait of Reiko by Kishida Ryusei as well as other important works in Japanese modern art history such as Mount Fuji Rising above Clouds by Yokoyama Taikan and Spring Rain by Shimomura Kanzan. This will be one of the largest exhibitions focused on Japanese modern art on view in the United States since World War II.
The Cleveland Museum of Art and The Phillips Collection have joined together to develop a ground-breaking exhibition that will present new insights into the art of Vincent van Gogh through a study of his “repetitions,” a term the artist used to describe a distinctive genre of works in his oeuvre. As the first exhibition to focus specifically on pairs or groups of works by Van Gogh that feature nearly identical compositions, this project seeks to make a valuable contribution to Van Gogh scholarship and to give broad audiences a new understanding of a fascinating aspect of the artist’s work.
In 125 photographs and illustrated books, the Raymond collection tells two stories: one of a radical moment in early twentieth century art and the other of an impassioned collector whose adventurous spirit and vision harmonized perfectly with his subject. Beginning in the 1990s, art collector and filmmaker David Raymond judiciously sought out vintage prints from the 1920s through the 1940s that reflect the eye in its wild state (l’oeil a l’etat sauvage), remaining true to the spirit of Andre Breton, founder of the first surrealist group in Paris. Raymond’s holdings of surrealist and modernist photography were distinguished by their quality, breadth and rarity of subject matter. In 2007, the Cleveland Museum of Art made a major, transformative acquisition by acquiring that collection, one of the most important holdings of twentieth century Surrealist photography that remained in private hands.
The Cleveland Museum of Art will present Yoga: The Art of Transformation, the world’s first exhibition about yoga’s visual history, will explore yoga’s meanings and transformations over time, including its entry into the global arena; yoga’s goals of spiritual enlightenment, worldly power and health and well-being; and the beauty and profundity of Indian art.
By the beginning of the 15th century, Florence was establishing itself as a city celebrated for its art and renowned for its artists. Brunelleschi’s Dome, one of the great architectural achievements of the age, towered above the Cathedral and cast its shadow over the city. Artists like Masaccio, Fra Angelico, Donatello, Botticelli and Verrocchio developed innovative approaches to painting, sculpture and architecture. Nurtured by civic and private patrons and fuelled by rivalry among themselves, these and other artists transformed the physical fabric of the city, laying the foundation for a remarkable epoch in art history.