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This Week at CMA: 3.26.18–4.1.18

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March 26, 2018
Portrait #16, South Africa, 2016, printed 2017. Pieter Hugo (South African, b. 1976). 2017.67Copyright

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

Image courtesy Cleveland Museum of Art.

Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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Through Sun, 5/20
See all the news that was fit to paint at #EyewitnessCMA! 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. Read the Plain Dealer review. Watch the exhibition trailer.

Image courtesy Cleveland Museum of Art.

Classical Café Series
Tues, 3/27
Join us from 1:00–2:00 p.m. for the final live classical music performance in the Ames Family Atrium, featuring the Cleveland Classical Guitar Society in honor of #EyewitnessCMA!

Image courtesy Cleveland Museum of Art.

Community Health Fair 2018
Wed, 3/28
Take advantage of a FREE rejuvenating community health fair presented by CMA in conjunction with the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and Gallagher Benefit Services.

Portrait #16, South Africa, 2016, printed 2017. Pieter Hugo (South African, b. 1976). Digital chromogenic print. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 2017.67. © Pieter Hugo, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York

OPEN NOW: Recent Acquisitions 2014–2017
Since 2014, the museum has acquired more than 2,000 works of art through purchase, gift, or bequest; this exhibition highlights 29 of these works that will pique your curiosity, stimulate your imagination, and perhaps even surprise you.

To Have a Head, 2017. Dana Schutz (American, born 1976). Oil on canvas; 36 x 32 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. Take a closer look at this exhibition.