This Week at CMA: 11.5.18–11.11.18

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November 5, 2018

Side by side images with Catherine de’ Medici on the left and Georgia O’Keeffe on the right. — Portrait of Catherine de’ Medici (detail), c. 1547–59. Germain Le Mannier (French, active c. 1537–59). Oil on canvas; 212 x 118 x 9 cm. Gallerie degli Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, deposit, Florence, 1890, n. 2448; Georgia O’Keeffe (detail), c. 1920–22. Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864–1946). Gelatin silver print; 11.4 x 9 cm (4 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.). Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM, Gift of the Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation, 2003.01.006.

Check out these five must-attend events this week at the CMA.

Two exhibitions. One price
Secure your holiday tickets NOW to both upcoming special exhibitions, Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern and Renaissance Splendor: Catherine de’ Medici’s Valois Tapestries. CMA members may reserve their free tickets now. Advance tickets strongly recommended.

Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble
Sun, 11/11
Timothy Weiss conducts the next concert in our collaborative series with Oberlin CME which features guest pianists Sarah Gibson and Thomas Kotcheff and includes works by composers-in-residence at Oberlin.

Soraya and Tala, Yarze, Lebanon, from the series Unspoken Conversations, 2014. Rania Matar (American, born 1964). Inkjet print; 28.8 x 36 in. Courtesy of the artist and Robert Klein Gallery

CMA at Transformer Station
OPEN NOW: In Her Image: Photographs by Rania Matar
Through Sun, 1/13/19
Lebanese-American photographer Rania Matar uses the portrait to examine the nature of female identity in girlhood, adolescence, and middle age in the United States and the Middle East.

Untitled [Illustration for “All Aboard!,” Woman’s Home Companion, July 1925], 1925. Clarence H. White (American, 1871–1925). Palladium print; 24.5 x 19.4 cm. Princeton University Art Museum, The Clarence H. White Collection, assembled and organized by Professor Clarence H. White Jr., and given in memory of Lewis F. White, Dr. Maynard P. White Sr., and Clarence H. White Jr., the sons of Clarence H. White Sr. and Jane Felix White, x1983–541

Open Now: Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895–1925
Through Mon, 1/21/19
A leading figure of American Pictorialist photography, Ohio-born Clarence H. White was an influential teacher and a gifted artist celebrated for his beautiful scenes of quiet domesticity and outdoor idylls. This exhibition surveys White’s career from its beginnings in 1895 in Newark, Ohio, to his death in Mexico in 1925. Learn more about White’s Ohio beginnings courtesy of CMA’s curator of photography, Barbara Tannenbaum, and in “State of the Arts: Rediscovering Clarence H. White, Ohio’s Iconic Photographer” by WKSU.

Video courtesy Cleveland Museum of art.

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