Double-page spread from Desiree Edkins, 2009. Desiree Edkins (American, born 1974). Offset lithography; 16.9 x 17.1 cm (closed). Courtesy of the artist

DIY: Photographers & Books: By the Numbers

Photographer and contemporary visual artist, Hank Willis Thomas, will be giving a free lecture on Saturday, January 28, at 2:30 p.m. in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Recital Hall.

Former Cleveland Museum of Art curator Tom Hinson, who retired in December 2010, was honored with a Cleveland Arts Prize at a Gartner Auditorium ceremony on June 28. Hinson spent 38 years in the museum’s modern and contemporary art and photography departments.

Three of the museum’s affiliate groups -- The Contemporary Art Society, Friends of Photography, and Friends of African and African-American Art -- have joined forces with our Education Department to host renowned artist Lyle Ashton Harris in a free museum

By Helen Cherry Guest Blogger What is the most important decision to be made when taking your wedding photos? “Location, Location, Location!” and the south terraces of the Cleveland Museum of Art as well as city’s adjacent Fine Arts Garden seem to be the location of choice for hundreds if not thousands of brides and grooms since the museum’s opening in 1916. In spring, summer and fall on any given Saturday or Sunday, cars and limousines will pull up on East Boulevard with bridal parties tumbling out to take pictures in these beautiful spots.

By John Kelly
Senior Membership Assistant

We recently sat down with Tom Hinson , curator of photography, to take a closer look at Andrew Borowiec: Cleveland

On March 7, The Cleveland Museum of Art will open its first Native American exhibition in nearly 30 years, Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection, a major traveling exhibition developed by the Fenimore Art Museum.