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This Week at CMA: 4.23.18–4.29.18

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April 23, 2018
Name Announcer, 2011. Pierre Huyghe (French, b. 1962). 2017.191Copyright

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

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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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Curator Talk: William Morris: Designing an Earthly Paradise
Tues, 4/24
Associate Curator of European Art Cory Korkow explores how nature and history inspired this groundbreaking Victorian designer in William Morris: Designing an Earthly Paradise.

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Curator Talk: Graphic Discontent
Wed, 4/25
Join Curator Emily J. Peters as she discusses the motivations and techniques behind prints and drawings made by German Expressionists in the early 20th century on view in Graphic Discontent.

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Open Studio
Every Sunday, 1:00–4:00 p.m.
FREE, no registration required.
Join us for drop-in art making in our new Make Space. Everyone is encouraged to imagine, experiment, and create. Each week features a new art idea. You’ll find us on the classroom level of the museum.

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.