Today at the Museum
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Sculpture and paintings throughout the museum inspire drawing in charcoal and pencils, including colored conté pencil. All skill levels welcome. High school students needing observation work for college admission are always welcome.
Beginners learn simple painting techniques in color mixing and application with acrylic paints. Still-life objects serve as inspiration for this low-pressure course.
Babies Welcome! In fact, you need a baby in tow if you want to join this group. Join us the first and third Wednesday of each month for a casual and lively discussion led by a museum educator in the galleries - just for parents and caregivers and their pre-toddler age (18 months and younger) children. Expect a special kind of outing that allows for adult conversation where no one minds if a baby lends his or her opinion with a coo or a cry.
There’s nothing better than tagging along on a public tour to learn new perspectives and hear great storytelling about the works in our collections. Public tours are offered daily at 1:30pm Tuesday through Sunday. Tours depart from the Information Desk in the Atrium, where docent guide and topic will be listed.
Museum-trained docents lead interactive tours through the special exhibition. Exhibition ticket required. Meet in the atrium. Subject to availability.
Sculpture and paintings throughout the museum inspire drawing in charcoal and pencils, including colored conté pencil. All skill levels welcome. High school students needing observation work for college admission are always welcome.
Directed by Mona Nicoara and Miruna Coka-Cozma. This revealing documentary chronicles the prejudice and discrimination faced by three Roma (“Gypsy”) children at a Transylvanian public school. “[An] exposé of ingrained racism in the Romanian educational system.” –Variety. Cleveland premiere.
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.
By artist Janet Cardiff
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.
This intimate installation includes sumptuous Italian silks, velvets, and altar frontals of the 14th and 15th centuries from the museum’s world-class collection.
The second exhibition in the new Focus Gallery explores the concept and characteristics of Tantra in the Buddhist context through art from across Asia. Among the most familiar Sanskrit terms to enter the western imagination, Tantra carries vague resonances of forbidden and culturally subversive religious practices. Twenty works of outstanding aesthetic quality, ranging from the seventh to the 17th centuries, will introduce key elements of tantric art and show how it was used to reach the Buddhist spiritual goal of enlightenment and bring an end to suffering in the world.
The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection will take an unconventional look at the ancient eruption of Mount Vesuvius through the works of artists from the 18th century to the present.