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This Week at CMA: 1.7.19–1.13.19

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January 7, 2019
Visitor looking at artworks on wall in Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern exhibition.

Image courtesy Cleveland Museum of Art.

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

Video courtesy Cleveland Museum of Art.

Two exhibitions. One price.
Kickoff the New Year by seeing two special exhibitions, Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern and Renaissance Splendor: Catherine de’ Medici’s Valois Tapestries. Advance tickets strongly recommended. Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern has regularly sold out on weekends.

Image courtesy Cleveland Museum of Art.

Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern
OPEN NOW: Through Sun, 3/3
Take a unique look into the fascinating connections between the paintings, personal style, and public persona of one of America’s most iconic artists. Read the Forbes article here and dive deeper into the exhibition with the blog post here.

Image courtesy Cleveland Museum of Art.

Renaissance Splendor: Catherine de’ Medici’s Valois Tapestries
OPEN NOW: Through Mon, 1/21
“Renaissance Splendor,” which focuses on six tapestries probably commissioned in the mid-1570s by Catherine de’ Medici, queen mother of France, is sumptuous and dazzling.” -Steven Litt via The Plain Dealer

Read the Wall Street Journal review. Explore the steps taken to clean and repair the Valois Tapestries in this blog post.

Image courtesy John Rogers.

Performance: Henry Threadgill
Fri, 1/11, 7:30 p.m.
Meet the Pulitzer Prize–winning jazz composer after his world premiere performance at the CMA. Threadgill’s performance is a world premiere and inspired by a visit to the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Brigitte and Huguette, Ghazir, 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
FINAL WEEK: 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. Read the Akron Beacon Journal review.

Images courtesy MercyWerks Studios for Cleveland Museum of Art.

Check out the blog post recapping the CMA teen co-op panel event with artist Rania Matar here! This discussion with the artist and local thought leaders explored the complexities and universality of the mother-daughter relationship and womanhood.

The Sun through the Trees, 1917. Charles Burchfield (American, 1893–1967). Watercolor; 51.4 x 36.2 cm (20 3/16 x 14 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection, 804.1930. Reproduced with permission from the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation.

Charles Burchfield: The Ohio Landscapes, 1915–1920
OPEN NOW
Explore the key role that northeast Ohio played in the art and life of American artist Charles Burchfield. He experimented avidly with watercolor, which allowed him to develop a new abstract style that defined his work. Read the Plain Dealer review.