Cleveland Art, 2024 Issue 3
- Member Magazine
In this issue of the members magazine: Veit Stoss's Jesse; Arts of the Maghreb; Good or Evil? Demons, ghosts, and goblins in Chinese art; Picasso and Paper; Jewish Ceremonial Art; Rose B. Simpson's Strata; Krishna Reinstalled; and A Year of Innovation: The joint program and the Mellon grant
Veit Stoss’s Jesse
After Napoleon conquered most of central Europe around 1800 and the Holy Roman Empire collapsed, almost all monasteries were dissolved and countless churches were profaned or demolished. Many works of art changed hands or were lost. Even then, however, there were collectors who were enthusiastic abo...
Arts of the Maghreb
Throughout the 1800s, professional female embroiderers with the title of mu’allima (expert teacher) trained young Moroccan women in the techniques of their hometowns. Algerian Jewish jewelers exclusively fashioned gold and gemstones for an elite, urban clientele. Further east, Tunisian weavers made...
Good or Evil?
Whether medieval monsters in the European visual arts or demons, ghosts, and goblins in Chinese painting and sculpture, supernatural spirits exist in many cultures and civilizations. Their visualization is evidence of humanity’s limitless imagination and fascination with them. In China, they populat...
Picasso and Paper
After a four-year delay, the landmark exhibition Picasso and Paper comes to the CMA this December. Approximately 300 works by the iconic Spanish artist are brought together to highlight his lifelong engagement and experimentation with paper. The show, a collaboration with London’s Royal Academy, was...
Women at Their Toilette, winter 1937–38. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973). Cut wallpapers with gouache on paper pasted onto canvas; 299 x 448 cm. Musée National Picasso–Paris, Pablo Picasso gift in lieu, 1979. Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée National
Picasso–Paris) / Adrien Didierjean. © Estate of- Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Rose B. Simpson’s Strata
Throughout the history of art, artists have left titles for their creations on the backs of canvases, in journals, or through documented oral histories. Contemporary artists at times directly inform art historians and curators about artwork titles. Artist Rose B. Simpson (Santa Clara Pueblo, b. 1983...
Strata installation by Celestial Sena and Wanda Abeyta, studio assistants for Rose B. Simpson, with Barry Austin, CMA art handler and installation specialist
Krishna Reinstalled
After seven years in the conservation lab, in the special exhibition galleries, and on tour to the Smithsonian, the CMA’s celebrated 1,500-year-old Cambodian sculpture Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan is on view again in the museum’s west wing. During that period, the larger-than-life-size monolith t...
A Year of Innovation
The Cleveland Museum of Art and the Department of Art History and Art at Case Western Reserve University have a partnership that stretches back to 1967. Over the past 10 years, funding from the Mellon Foundation has allowed the joint program between the CMA and CWRU to experiment with new offerings...
Coteachers of Creation and (Re)Birth in Medieval Art Gerhard Lutz, Robert P. Bergman Curator of Medieval Art, CMA, and Elina Gertsman, distinguished professor in art history and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, CWRU