Cleveland Art, March/April 2018
- Member Magazine
In this issue of the members magazine: Acquisition Highlights; Eyewitness Views; A Tale of Two Rivals; A Bright New Welcome; Two Dancers; Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi
Acquisition Highlights
Throughout its 101-year history, the Cleveland Museum of Art has cultivated the reputation as having a collection of masterpieces. Selecting objects from around the world that tell the story of human achievement in the arts, we continue to add to our renowned collection. The museum’s curators seek o...
Eyewitness Views
Throughout the 18th century, one of the most popular genres of painting was the veduta, or view painting—a highly detailed, often large-scale view of a city or picturesque locale. Travelers making the Grand Tour of European capitals often purchased these paintings as pleasant reminders of their jour...
The Preparations to Celebrate the Birth of the Dauphin of France in the Piazza Navona, 1731. Giovanni Paolo Panini (Italian, c. 1692–1765). Oil on canvas; 109 x 246 cm. National Gallery of Ireland, NGI.95, Purchased 1871. Photo © National Gallery of Ireland
A Tale of Two Rivals
The two small galleries flanking the south door, which display the museum’s renowned collections of works by American designer and glass artisan Louis Comfort Tiffany and his Russian counterpart, Peter Carl Fabergé, are about to receive a face-lift. State-of-the-art glass and steel cases from German...
A Bright New Welcome
Starting this spring, visitors will be greeted by a flood of illuminated color as they enter the museum through the north passageway. Spencer Finch’s Color Test 210 (9 Permutations), a series of nine light boxes from 2015, gives form to the complexity of color in mesmerizing ways. The boxes’ luminou...
Two Dancers
Tanzerinnen (Dancers), a woodcut from 1917 by Emil Nolde, captures two robed female figures in the midst of an ecstatic dance. Shaping their bodies into dramatic but graceful curves, Nolde conveyed movement and rhythm as well as physical and emotional abandon. The woodcut technique was crucial to th...
Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi
Last August, the museum welcomed Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi as curator of African art. Smooth Nzewi, as he prefers to be called, comes most recently from Dartmouth College’s Hood Museum of Art, where he also held the position of curator of African art. He has taught at the Institute of African Studie...
