Cleveland Art, 2024, Issue 2
- Member Magazine
In this issue of the members magazine: Korean Couture: Generations of Revolution; Picturing the Border; Rose B. Simpson: Strata; The 60th Venice Biennale and the CMA; Endowing Exhibitions Leadership; Yinka Shonibare’s Birdcage Kid (Boy); The Grounds Crew; Tasting Notes; To the “Jerusalem of Tuscany” and Back
Korean Couture
Man’s Overcoat (Jungchimak), late 1500s–mid-1600s. Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910). Patterned damask silk and silk tabby. Sim Yeon’s (1587–1646) Tomb. Gyeonggi Province Museum, 12973. Photo courtesy of Gyeonggi Province Museum
Picturing the Border
Cholos, White Fence, East Los Angeles, 1986. Graciela Iturbide (Mexican, b. 1942). Gelatin silver print; 35.2 x 27.7 cm. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Gift of Leslie and Judith Schreyer and Gabri Schreyer-Hoffman in honor of Virginia Heckert, 2017.41. © Graciela Iturbide
Rose B. Simpson’s Strata
Rose B. Simpson (Santa Clara Pueblo, b. 1983) has envisioned a site-specific project for the Ames Family Atrium titled Strata. The light-filled open piazza with a 60-foot glass ceiling is an expansive gathering place, and the largest free indoor space in Cleveland. Since it opened in 2012, the atriu...
Rose B. Simpson working on Strata at Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico. Photo by Kate Russell
The 60th Venice Biennale and the CMA
On April 18, 2024, the Cleveland Museum of Art cohosted the opening of Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior at the Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel in Venice, Italy. More than 300 people from around the world joined us for this celebration, including friends from Cleveland pictured here. Collective Behavio...
Installation view of Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior at the Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel in Venice, Italy
Yinka Shonibare’s Birdcage Kid (Boy)
A boy steps forward, carrying birdcages and wearing one as a backpack. His pose projects strength and determination. Colorful birds perch atop these enclosures or stretch their wings to fly away. Connecting to Cleveland history, the sculpture reflects both the challenges faced by and the upward mome...
Funding Conservation’s Greatest Need
“If it weren’t for conservation, there wouldn’t be art on the walls,” said Julie Kurtock, CMA member and volunteer. Julie has been closely involved with the museum for more than 20 years. As a longtime volunteer, she has helped share the CMA’s renowned collection with visitors from around the world....
Julie Kurtock (center) with Dean Yoder, senior conservator of paintings and head of paintings conservation (left), and Julianna Ly, assistant conservator of paintings (right)
To the “Jerusalem of Tuscany” and Back
In spring 2023, Cory Korkow, curator of European paintings and sculpture, 1500–1800, and I journeyed to Tuscany to research the CMA’s monumental sculpture Christ and the Samaritan Woman at the Well (c. 1500–1530), attributed to Giovanni della Robbia and his workshop. This rare polychrome terracotta...