Check out these five must-attend events this week at the CMA!
Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe Purchase Tickets OPEN NOW 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.
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.
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 Postreview.