Cleveland Art, September/October 2016
- Member Magazine
In this issue of the members magazine: Kara Walker; Dan Graham; Cheating Death; Myth and Mystique; Baga Headdress; Conserving Caravaggio; Centennial Loans; Studio Play; Fine Print Fair; Gallery Game.
The Ecstasy of St. Kara
Through fantastical, emotionally wrenching artwork—described by New York Times art critic Holland Cotter as “a cross between a children’s book and a sexually explicit cartoon”—Kara Walker explores the many intersections of race, gender, and sexuality throughout history. After receiving her BFA from...
Dan Graham Rocks
Local radio disc jockey Alan Freed first coined the phrase “rock and roll” in 1951, marking Cleveland as the birthplace of rock music. Six decades later, Transformer Station is connecting past and present through the work of renowned American contemporary artist Dan Graham, whose longtime interest i...
Design for Showing Videos, 2014. Dan Graham (American, born 1942). Reflective glass, stainless steel; 236.2 x 576.6 x 718.8 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Greene Naftali, New York
Cheating Death
In this selfie-besotted age, it is hard to believe that until 1839 only upper-class people could own a likeness of themselves or of their families or friends. That year brought the announcement of the invention of photography and the advent of the relatively inexpensive daguerreotype, ushering in a...
Myth and Mystique
One of the great signature objects of the museum’s medieval collection is a gilt-silver automaton, the most complete surviving example of what is today commonly known as a table fountain. This elaborate object fascinates all who see it. Given its extreme rarity and the lack of comparable examples, e...
New Publications
The museum continues its long tradition of publishing scholarly books, as well as more general-interest titles, with the debut of a sublime collection catalogue, a grand look at the Fine Arts Garden, and an in-depth examination of one of our most enigmatic objects.
Published to coincide with the cent...
Together and Apart
Last fall more than 129,000 visitors witnessed the reunion of Claude Monet’s Agapanthus (Water Lilies) triptych in the museum’s Painting the Modern Garden exhibition. Another reunion, albeit on a more intimate scale, is possible through a generous loan from the North Carolina Museum of Art: Karl Sch...
Poignant Abstraction
One of 36 works titled Improvisation completed between 1911 and 1914, Cannons of 1913 remains one of Russian artist Vassily Kandinsky’s most influential contributions to modern art. As part of his quest to create purely abstract or nonobjective works, Kandinsky proposed that harmonious colors and fo...
Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons), 1913. Vassily Kandinsky (French, born Russia, 1866–1944). Oil on canvas; 111 x 111.3 cm. The Art Institute of Chicago, Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection, 1931.511. © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Belle Époque Elegance
Two exquisite jeweled masterworks from the Belle Époque—the Wade Family necklaces by Tiffany & Co.—once again reunite as part of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s centennial loan series. Both necklaces were on view in the museum’s 2008 exhibition Artistic Luxury: Tiffany, Fabergé, Lalique, an exploratio...
Wade Necklace, c. 1900. Paulding Farnham, designer. Gold, platinum, diamonds; 36 x 8.5 cm. Tiffany & Co. Archives, A1999.49.01. © Tiffany & Co. Archives
Studio Play 2.0
Every element in the new Studio Play gallery is strategically designed to inspire a relationship between visitors and the museum’s world-class collection. From a 25-foot digital display of artwork that zooms and focuses based on the viewer’s physical movement, to the Create Studio where visitors can...
