Cleveland Art, July/August 2015
- Member Magazine
In this issue of the members magazine: Crackle and Drag; Gloria; Elegiac Refrain; Easels in Eden.
G-L-O-R-I-A
When I happened upon Gloria, a 1956 Combine by Robert Rauschenberg, shortly after arriving at the Cleveland Museum of Art, I was stunned to see it in person. Gloria doesn’t look or act its age. Despite its 60 years, it remains surprisingly striking because of the many ways it resonates with artwork...
A Nobleman from Maya Copán
Installed high on a wall in the museum’s Pre-Columbian gallery is a stone head that, because of its location, is easy to overlook. The head is a portrait of a handsome young Maya man of serene countenance who lived during the eighth century at Copán, a populous city in eastern Maya territory near to...
One for the Books
It is said that more information is available to us through our smartphones than any previous generation ever had access to anywhere. So why then is it still important to preserve our printed media? After all, conservation, whether of old master paintings or books, requires a substantial investment....
