This Week at CMA: 2.26.18–3.4.18

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February 26, 2018
Strawberry Thief, c 1936. William Morris (British, 1834–1896).

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

The Rialto Bridge with the Festive Entry of the Patriarch Antonio Correr, 1735. Michele Marieschi (Italian, 1696–1743). Oil on canvas; 163.3 × 252.5 × 13.4 cm. Osterley Park, National Trust, 771297. Photo: National Trust Photo Library / Art Resource, NY

Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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Centuries before Instagram, Twitter, or even photography, view paintings recorded history as it happened. This exhibition is your chance to travel back in time to be an eyewitness to the most significant events of 18th-century Europe. This Wed, 2/28 explore the tricks and techniques artists used to produce these compelling visual records with Betsy Wieseman, Curator of European Paintings and Sculpture.

Strawberry Thief, design registered 1883. William Morris (British, 1834–1896). Indigo-discharged cotton: plain weave, block printed; 88.2 x 99 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Henry Chisholm, 1937.696.

Curator Talk: William Morris: Designing an Earthly Paradise
Tue, 2/27
Explore how nature and history inspired this groundbreaking Victorian designer with Associate Curator of European Art Cory Korkow.

Image courtesy Cleveland Museum of Art.

MIX: Expression (Kabarett)
Fri, 3/2
Join us as WizBang!, Cleveland’s illegitimate theater, stages a night of dancing, kabarett, and cocktails in the spirit of Expressionist Berlin, in honor of the CMA’s exhibition Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper.

The Diamond Sutra engraved on Mount Tai, Shandong Province, China, c. 580. © Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Under the Open Sky — Buddhist Sutras on Chinese Mountains
Sat, 3/3
Explore monumental carvings created by Buddhist monks in present-day Shandong Province in northeastern China. Made possible by the Pauline and Joseph Degenfelder Family Endowment Fund.

Shame, 2017. Dana Schutz (American, born 1976). Oil on canvas; 84 x 74 inches. © Dana Schutz, courtesy of Petzel Gallery, New York and Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

CMA at Transformer Station: Dana Schutz: Eating Atom Bombs
Through Sun, 4/15
This exhibition debuts a new series of paintings by Schutz that focuses on the precariousness of our current political and social moment. On view at the Transformer Station. Read the Washington Post review.