This Week at CMA: 4.9.18–4.15.18

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April 9, 2018
Name Announcer, 2011. Pierre Huyghe (French, b. 1962). 2017.191Copyright

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
Members FREE, Reserve Tickets
OPEN NOW 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.

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Performance: Tallis Scholars
Fri, 4/13
“Voices immaculately balanced and sublimely paced” — Jeremy Pound, BBC Music Magazine. Through their recordings and performances, the Tallis Scholars have established themselves as the leading exponents of Renaissance sacred music throughout the world.

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Meditation in the Galleries
Sat, 4/14
Monthly, second Saturdays at 11:00 a.m.
Gallery 244
Join us each month to clear your mind and refresh your spirit in the serene atmosphere of the glass box gallery with guided meditation sessions led by experienced meditation practitioners. Presented in collaboration with the Songtsen Gampo Buddhist Center of Cleveland. All are welcome; no prior experience with meditation is required.

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CMA at Transformer Station: Dana Schutz: Eating Atom Bombs
FINAL WEEK: 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.

Name Announcer, Date n/a. Pierre Huyghe (French, 1962-). Durational performance, . Purchased with funds from an anonymous donor 2017.191 © Pierre Huyghe 2011.

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. In conjunction with this exhibition, see Name Announcer, a durational performance piece that explores public space and how individuals relate to one another, and the first work of its kind to enter the museum’s collection, through September 30, 2018.