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This Week at CMA: 10.29.18–11.2.18

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October 29, 2018
Side by side images with Catherine de’ Medici on the left and Georgia O’Keeffe on the right.

Portrait of Catherine de’ Medici (detail), c. 1547–59. Germain Le Mannier (French, active c. 1537–59). Oil on canvas; 212 x 118 x 9 cm. Gallerie degli Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, deposit, Florence, 1890, n. 2448; Georgia O’Keeffe (detail), c. 1920–22. Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864–1946). Gelatin silver print; 11.4 x 9 cm (4 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.). Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM, Gift of the Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation, 2003.01.006.

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

Two exhibitions. One price.
Public presale: Through Wed, 10/31
DON’T MISS the opportunity for to purchase tickets to two upcoming special exhibitions: Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern and Renaissance Splendor: Catherine de’ Medici’s Valois Tapestries! Special pricing is available to the public for early ticket purchase through Wed, 10/31. Regular combination-ticket pricing will go into effect 11/1/18.

Image courtesy Cleveland Museum of Art.

MIX: Thriller
Fri, 11/2, 6:00 p.m.
Purchase Tickets Now
November’s MIX is keeping the Halloween spirit alive with spooky gallery tours, Halloween-inspired cocktails, and a DJ spinning tunes. Be inspired by the CMA’s haunted history and Michael Jackson’s classic hit and come costume clad and ready for a thriller night.

Leila and Souraya, Jounieh, Lebanon, from the series Unspoken Conversations, 2015. Rania Matar (American, born 1964). Inkjet print; 28.8 x 36 in. Courtesy of the artist and Robert Klein Gallery

CMA at Transformer Station
OPEN NOW: In Her Image: Photographs by Rania Matar
Through Sun, 1/13/19
Lebanese-American photographer Rania Matar uses the portrait to examine the nature of female identity in girlhood, adolescence, and middle age in the United States and the Middle East.

The Sea [Rose Pastor Stokes, Caritas Island, Connecticut], 1909, printed after 1917. Clarence H. White (American, 1871–1925). Palladium print; 24.5 x 18.5 cm. Princeton University Art Museum, The Clarence H. White Collection, assembled and organized by Professor Clarence H. White Jr., and given in memory of Lewis F. White, Dr. Maynard P. White Sr., and Clarence H. White Jr., the sons of Clarence H. White Sr. and Jane Felix White, x1983–496

Open Now: Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895–1925
Through Mon, 1/21/19
A leading figure of American Pictorialist photography, Ohio-born Clarence H. White was an influential teacher and a gifted artist celebrated for his beautiful scenes of quiet domesticity and outdoor idylls. This exhibition surveys White’s career from its beginnings in 1895 in Newark, Ohio, to his death in Mexico in 1925.

Video courtesy Cleveland Museum of art.

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