Cleveland Art, Fall 2021
- Member Magazine
In this issue of the members magazine: The Cleveland Krishna; Conserving Krishna, A Virtual Polish for an Ancient Masterwork; Current Exhibitions; Derrick Adams: LOOKS; Preserving Matrilineal Culture; Exhibition Previews; Portrait of Renoir; Internships at the CMA; Rare Books
The Cleveland Krishna
Long before the CMA acquired Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan in 1973 as a fragment, with no arms or legs, scholars and connoisseurs interested in the arts of Asia recognized it as a masterwork of early Cambodian sculpture. The museum’s director at the time, Sherman E. Lee, worked unflinchingly for e...
Conserving Krishna
When people ask about my work as an art conservator, their first question tends to be whether I really get to touch the art. I tell them that I do, and that it’s always a thrill. They also ask how long conservation treatments take, especially for large and complicated paintings and sculptures. The a...
Conserving Krishna CMA art handlers align the body and upper stone section on the new mount, 2021.
A Virtual Polish for an Ancient Masterwork
While developing the digital elements in Revealing Krishna: Journey to Cambodia’s Sacred Mountain, I caught myself thinking about my visit to the King Tut exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1978. We waited in long lines to enter; the excitement in the crowd was palpable. It was the firs...
HoloLens Experience A mixed-reality headset projects holograms amidst actual people and objects in the surrounding space, allowing visitors to interact with physical and virtual environments simultaneously.
Derrick Adams: LOOKS
“The content of most of my work,” says artist Derrick Adams, “is based on observation and, more so, observation around my environment. I look for things that are in my visual grasp on a daily basis. I look for meaning in those things.” The wig shops in the artist’s Brooklyn neighborhood inspired the...
Style Variation 35 2020. Derrick Adams. Acrylic paint and graphite on digital inkjet photograph; 245.1 x 153 x 4.4 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Salon 94, New York
Preserving Matrilineal Culture
Raised on the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation in Montana, Wendy Red Star makes work informed by both her cultural heritage and her engagement with many forms of creative expression, including photography, sculpture, video, fiber arts, and performance. An avid researcher of archives and historical narr...
Wendy Red Star
BEATRICE RED STAR FLETCHER
Women in Print
Over the past few years, curators at the Cleveland Museum of Art have been actively building the holdings of prints by a diverse and international range of women working today. These exciting new additions to the collection will be on view for the first time in Women in Print: Recent Acquisitions.
A...
Toward the Ultimate Figure
The Cleveland Museum of Art is the opening venue for Alberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure, a large touring exhibition that focuses on the artist’s major achievements and creations of the postwar years, from 1945 to 1966.
Widely acclaimed as one of the most important artists of the 20th cent...
Currents and Constellations
Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus puts art from the CMA’s permanent collection in conversation with a vanguard of emerging and mid-career Black artists, as each explores the fundaments of art making, embracing and challenging art history.
The connections between the artworks and the the...
The New Black Vanguard
The New Black Vanguard an exhibition of photographs by young Black artists working in Africa and across the African diaspora, celebrates Black creativity and underlines the cross-pollination that occurs between art, fashion, and culture. For many decades, images by Black photographers were rarely f...
Fire on the Beach 2019. Dana Scruggs (American). Image courtesy of Aperture, New York, 2019. © Dana Scruggs
Roy Minoff
Roy Minoff’s generous support of the museum was inspired by his father, Sam. A unique philanthropic opportunity joined his love of music with the Cleveland Museum of Art.
How did you become involved with the museum?
My father traveled a great deal, and during my childhood he exposed me to artists like...
Supporter Roy Minoff (center) with June Scharf (right) and Colleen Russell Criste, deputy director and chief philanthropy officer, celebrating the installation of the upgraded sound system in Gartner Auditorium
HOWARD AGRIESTI
Portrait of Renoir
The Cleveland Museum of Art recently acquired an exquisite portrait by Frédéric Bazille depicting his close friend and fellow Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Although not as well known as the other Impressionists, Bazille played a seminal role in the early history of the movement.
Bazille was bo...