Cleveland Art, 2022, Issue 2
- Member Magazine
In this issue of the members magazine: The New Black Vanguard; Art Meets Fashion; Julie Mehretu: Portals; FRONT at CMA; History Painting; Exhibition Schedule; Impressionism to Modernism; Why Born Enslaved!; Four Favorites; Tales of the City; Global Feminisms + Video Art; Armor Loan Installation; Traveling Artworks
The New Black Vanguard
“The beauty of photography,” says Ruth Ossai, “is it starts a dialogue about who we are, where we come from, and where we are going.” Ossai is one of 38 photographers in The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion, an exhibition organized by curator and critic Antwaun Sargent. These...
Art Meets Fashion
From dressing celebrities for red carpets and music videos to developing the creative direction for fashion magazine editorials and fashion campaigns,it is the stylist who assembles compellingoutfits that enthrall audiences. A stylist’s role is to choose and assemble all the garments and accessories...
At last . . . Love (sketch of installation) 2022. Daniel Obasi (Nigerian, b. 1994). Courtesy of Daniel Obasi
Julie Mehretu: Portals
On the occasion of FRONT 2022, Julie Mehretu: Portals offers a fresh perspective on the Cleveland Museum of Art’s encyclopedic collections through an artist’s eyes. This exhibition, the first of its kind at the CMA, integrates paintings by Julie Mehretu with works from the museum’s collections that ...
Julie Mehretu
FRONT International 2022 at CMA
Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows, the second iteration of FRONT International, is a multi-venue exhibition that embraces art as an agent of transformation, a mode of healing, and a therapeutic process. The title is an homage to the 1957 poem “Two Somewhat Different Epigrams” by Langston Hughes. A tende...
History Painting as a Slow Read
On April 1, a major installation of artworks was unveiled in the contemporary galleries. A centerpieceof the rotation is the new addition of Kerry James Marshall’s Bang (1994), which came to the museum through a generous loan from the Progressive Insurance Corporation. Nadiah Rivera Fellah, associat...
Impressionism to Modernism
Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection, one of this fall’s exhibitions, will celebrate the extraordinary gift and promised gift of art from Clevelanders Joseph P. and Nancy F. Keithley to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Announced in March 2020, the gift of more than 100 works of art is the...
Why Born Enslaved!
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s stunning sculpture Why Born Enslaved! (1868) is one of the most powerful expressions of abolitionist sentiment in the visual arts. It depicts a woman of African descent bound by ropes and looking defiantly upward. The ropes press into her breasts, and her torn blouse alludes...