Cleveland Art, 2026, Issue 3
- Member Magazine
In this issue: The 10 Kings of Hell: Reuniting the Former Packard Set; The Gift: Emma Amos with Friends; Print Revolutions: The Art of Chinese Printmaking; Acquiring “Cleveland Quality”: How Do Artworks Enter the Collection?; Mirage of the Imagination: Art After World War II; First Impressions: Exiting Fall Music Debuts; The CMA on the World Stage: The International Council of Collectors; For the Benefit of All the People: Notes from the Director's Dinner; Supporting the Conservation Lab; In-Kind Support; Endowing Art Excellence and Access; Little Thinkers, Big Imaginations
The Fourth King of Hell (detail), late 1300s. Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392). Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold ink on silk; 63 x 45.3 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund and museum purchase from various donors by exchange and partial gift of the Honorable Joseph P. Carroll and Roberta Carroll, MD, 2019.224
The 10 Kings of Hell
In partnership with the National Museum of Korea, the Cleveland Museum of Art presents Ten Kings of Hell: The Afterlife in Medieval Korea. The exhibition traces the soul’s journey in the afterlife as conceived in Korea through the lens of Buddhist theology, as expressed through the material culture...
The Gift: Emma Amos with Friends
In 2023, the Cleveland Museum of Art acquired The Gift (1990–94), a monumental portrait series by Emma Amos (American, 1937–2020). Opening in September, a new exhibition, The Gift: Emma Amos with Friends, marks this work’s debut presentation on our walls.
Amos was an artist and educator whose painti...
Print Revolutions
China invented paper and printmaking around 700 CE and developed color printing with multiple blocks by the 1600s. These cultural achievements had global consequences. Recent acquisitions of two important groups of historical and modern Chinese prints from the collections of Christer von der Burg an...
Acquiring “Cleveland Quality”
The extraordinary collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art has been built over more than a century through the judicious choices of the museum’s curators, directors, and donors. Its artworks—spanning more than 6,000 years and many of the world’s cultures—are noted for their excellence, and in many...
CMA director William M. Griswold and art dealer Sam Fogg at TEFAF Maastricht in March 2026 discussing with CMA staff and supporters two paintings by German artist Hans Süss von Kulmbach that were subsequently acquired by the museum
Mirage of the Imagination
The Cleveland Museum of Art is delighted to acquire a painting by Jean Dubuffet, a highly influential artist working in postwar Paris. Throughout his career, Dubuffet was a subversive provocateur within the cultural landscape of the mid-20th century, rebelling against prevailing notions of high cult...
First Impressions
While the fall performing arts season features encore performances by Les Délices, Apollo’s Fire, Relic Ensemble, and Dancing Wheels, as well as the Cleveland Silent Film Festival, there are some genre-defying bands making their CMA debuts that are sure to excite all music lovers.
Monsieur Periné
Wedn...
Monsieur Periné. Courtesy of Valeria Nevares Mendez
The CMA on the World Stage
Great museums are places where ideas circulate alongside objects. They bring together collectors, artists, curators, conservators, and experts from across the museum field to deepen understanding, exchange perspectives, and shape the conversations that define the cultural landscape. The Cleveland Mu...
Members of the CMA’s International Council of Collectors touring Martin Puryear: Nexus
For the Benefit of All the People
This June, the Cleveland Museum of Art celebrated a period of remarkable, sustained momentum at its annual Director’s Dinner. Building on a record-setting year in which attendance surpassed 800,000 visitors for the first time in its 110-year history, the CMA continues to attract large audiences, dri...
2026 Director’s Dinner
Supporting the Conservation Lab
Since its founding in 1934, the Timken Foundation of Canton has been a major supporter of educational and cultural organizations in Northeast Ohio and beyond. Recognizing the Cleveland Museum of Art as an asset to the entire region, the foundation recently provided important support for the museum’s...
Anthony Magnelli (Cleveland Clinic Foundation) and Julianna Ly, associate conservator of paintings (CMA), prepare Pintoricchio’s Virgin and Child (c. 1490–1500) for a CT scan as part of the gallery exhibition Pintoricchio Magnified: An Immersive Conservation Experience
In-Kind Support
The Cleveland Museum of Art’s corporate partner BlueBridge Networks—a Cleveland-based provider of digital security, cloud computing, and IT services—has long provided in-kind support of the museum’s storage and security digital infrastructure, enabling the CMA to deliver transformative art experienc...
ArtLens Gallery
Endowing Art Excellence and Access
Bill and Marlene Hansen’s relationship with the Cleveland Museum of Art goes all the way back to Marlene’s childhood, when she visited the museum during summer breaks, fostering an enduring appreciation for art and culture. Bill’s connection followed years later when he moved to Cleveland and met Ma...
Bill and Marlene Hansen with their Cavachon, Hannah
Little Thinkers, Big Imaginations
At the Cleveland Museum of Art, we take pride in creating experiences “for the benefit of all the people.” This includes providing opportunities for our younger visitors and littlest thinkers to engage more deeply with our world-class collection in new ways. This fall, the CMA and Akron Children’s i...
Little thinkers viewing art in the galleries