This Week at CMA: 2.11.19–2.17.19

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February 11, 2019
Somnyama II, Oslo, 2015. Zanele Muholi (South African, b. 1972).

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

Image courtesy Scott Shaw Photography for the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Celebrate Valentine’s Day at the Cleveland Museum of Art with CMA Love Story
Wed, 2/13, and Thu, 2/14
CMA will host two days of programs celebrating love in all its forms Wednesday and Thursday, February 13 and 14. Highlights include a #CMALoveStory giveaway, a pop-up Open Studio in the Ames Family Atrium, love-inspired self-guided tours of the collection available in the ArtLens App, and artwork featured on the ArtLens Wall. Share your CMA Valentine’s Day experience using #CMALoveStory.

Somnyama II, Oslo, 2015. Zanele Muholi (South African, b. 1972). Gelatin silver print; 49.5 x 43.2 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 2016.40. © Zanele Muholi. Courtesy of the artist, Yancey Richardson Gallery, and Stevenson Cape Town / Johannesburg

Beyond Truth: Photography after the Shutter
OPEN NOW
Beyond Truth explores figurative scenes and portraits in which artists have altered the “truth” through postproduction techniques. Want to be a part of the exhibition? Take a selfie and use the photo-editing tools at your disposal — filters, face-altering apps, or effects — to manipulate your image and create an alternate truth. Post your photo to social media using #CMAbeyondtruth. It may be added to photos on a video screen in the gallery, becoming part of the exhibition.

Under Ekvatorn (Beneath the Equator) (detail), designed 1941. Josef Frank (Swedish, born Austria, 1885–1967) and Svenkst Tenn (Sweden, est. 1924). Linen: plain weave, printed; 193 x 125.7 cm (76 x 49 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Harold T. Clark Educational Extensions Fund, 1954.202

Color and Comfort: Swedish Modern Design
COMING SOON: Opening Sun, 2/17
This exhibition explores the introduction of bold, colorful patterning during the 1920s, the national nostalgia for Swedish cultural heritage during the 1930s, and the sparse lines of abstraction in the 1950s and ’60s which come together to reveal a particularly Swedish sensibility in modern design — one that has often been used to define a broader modern Scandinavian style.

Top: Georgia O’Keeffe with Painting in the Desert, N.M., 1960. Tony Vaccaro (American, b. 1922). Chromogenic print; 35.2 x 45.7 cm (13 7/8 x 18 in.). Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 2007.3.2. Photo: Tony Vaccaro/Tony Vaccaro Studio. Bottom: Images courtesy Cleveland Museum of Art.

Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern
FINAL MONTH: Through Sun, 3/3
FREE to members
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. Advance tickets strongly recommended. Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern has regularly sold out on weekends.

Installation image of Raúl de Nieves: Fina. Image courtesy Cleveland Museum of Art.

CMA at Transformer Station
Raúl de Nieves: Fina
OPEN NOW
Through processes of accumulation and a celebration of excess, de Nieves transforms humble materials into spectacular objects and immersive narrative environments. Fina, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition, features a new site-specific installation developed for Transformer Station. This exhibition is organized by the CMA and is on view at Transformer Station.

Raúl de Nieves: Fina has been named one of the 10 must-see Latino art shows in 2019 by NBC News!

Winant show image. Image courtesy Carmen Winant.

Carmen Winant: Unmaking the Picture
Sat, 2/16, 2:00 p.m.
FREE
Winant focuses on the ways in which photography can be used to compel and complicate feminist narratives by asking a series of questions: Is it possible to “picture” liberation? How do violence and submission manifest for the camera? What does pleasure look like? In what ways do pictures consistently fail us? Made possible by the Fran and Warren Rupp Contemporary Art Fund.