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New on View: Marguerite Zorach’s The Family (In Memory of a Summer in the White Mountains) | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Dec, 2023 | Medium
Marguerite Zorach (American, 1887–1968), in reference to her thoughtfully handmade embroideries, reflected, “These works are built out of my life and the things that have touched my life. . . . In…
A Hidden Gem: Nigeria Magazine at the CMA’s Ingalls Library | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Nov, 2023 | Medium
Come to the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Ingalls Library to browse through issues of Nigeria Magazine and read about the country’s thriving arts and culture scene between the 1960s and 1980s (fig. 1)…
Traveling through the Archives: Digitizing the Travel Sketchbooks of Frances Prindle Taft | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Oct, 2023 | Medium
As a digitization intern at the Ingalls Library and Museum Archives this summer, I’ve had the great fortune to work with several different objects, ranging from rare folios that have just recently…
Degas and the Laundress: Thinking about the (In)visibility of Women’s Labor in Impressionism | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Oct, 2023 | Medium
For many, the word Impressionism conjures images of light-filled landscapes, ballerinas, or fashionably dressed women at the opera, in a garden or park, or at the seaside. Yet, as the Cleveland…
Annual Chalk Festival. By Stefanie Lima Taub, Director of… | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Sep, 2023 | Medium
When everyone has finished their drawings and gone home, and all the supplies have been packed up for next year, I love to take a moment and stand at the top of the Fine Arts Garden to bask in the…
A Seating Arrangement for God. By Justin Willson, Mellon Postdoctoral… | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Jul, 2023 | Medium
Seating arrangements shape many of our activities, from business meetings, concerts, and meals to car rides, graduation ceremonies, and weddings. One might go so far as to say that where we sit is a…
How Hard Can It Be? Mounting Fashion for Egyptomania: Fashion’s Conflicted Obsession | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Jun, 2023 | Medium
I’ll let you in on a well-kept secret of museum work: fashion is difficult to display! You might find this unbelievable, as we dress ourselves every day and everyone knows how to put clothes on…
New on View at the CMA: Amy Sherald’s He was meant for all things to meet | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Jun, 2023 | Medium
The Cleveland Museum of Art was honored to add He was meant for all things to meet of 2022 by Amy Sherald (American, b. 1973) to its contemporary collection this past March (fig. 1). Sherald, one of…
A Hunt for Meaning: Hunting Scenes in India, 1700–1900 | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Jun, 2023 | Medium
Articulated in seductive colors with intriguing details, hunting scenes in paintings from India celebrate more than the coup de grâce. In the startlingly expansive scenes created during the 1700s and…
Your Museum, Your Voice: Community Voices at the Cleveland Museum of Art | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | May, 2023 | Medium
A museum is nothing without its visitors. The stories of the artworks and the people who interact with them make museums come alive. At the Cleveland Museum of Art, we are committed to building an…
A Sweet and Sour Journey: The Collaboration between Elmer W. Brown and Langston Hughes | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | May, 2023 | Medium
One of the goals of art museum exhibitions is to shed light on little-known stories. It is more meaningful when the process is shared with members of the community — in this case, a group of eight…
Shaped from Alabaster: Riemenschneider’s Mysterious Sculptures | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | May, 2023 | Medium
Around 1490, the young, ambitious artist Tilman Riemenschneider was commissioned to make several sculptures for the Benedictine monastery of Saint Peter in Erfurt, Germany. Riemenschneider’s workshop…
Depicting the Global: New Acquisitions in Contemporary Art | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Apr, 2023 | Medium
The S. Mueller Family Galleries of Contemporary Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art displays a variety of works that expand and, at times, upend viewers’ conceptions of artistic expression, as well as…
Another Day, Another Sovereign: Tudor Coinage | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Apr, 2023 | Medium
Tudor royals strategically deployed images of themselves to legitimize claims to the throne and to project authority and power. This is no less true of large painted portraits in palaces and official…
The Power of Words to Increase Equity and Access: The Ingalls Library DEI Initiatives | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Apr, 2023 | Medium
Three years ago, the Ingalls Library staff collaboratively wrote a departmental DEI statement to signal our alignment with the museum’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. In our original…
Egyptomania: Appropriation or Appreciation? | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Mar, 2023 | Medium
In mainstream culture, fashion design is a realm where the conversation about the differences between appropriation and appreciation often rears its head. Egyptomania: Fashion’s Conflicted Obsession…
Family Drama: Meet the Taste-Making Kings and Queens of the Powerful Tudor Dynasty in The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Mar, 2023 | Medium
England was a thriving home for the arts during the volatile Tudor dynasty. Fueled by political intrigue, inspired by romantic and spiritual fervor, art created for the Tudor court was among the most…
Shaping the Future of Korean Art. By Sooa Im McCormick, Curator of Korean… | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Mar, 2023 | Medium
The recent acquisitions Cityscape of Pyongyang and Umber-Black highlight the Cleveland Museum of Art’s conscious efforts to acquire a wide variety of Korean works of art, not only to deepen its…
Rafael Viñoly, 1944–2023. By Bill Griswold, Director and… | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Mar, 2023 | Medium
The Cleveland Museum of Art acknowledges the passing of internationally acclaimed architect Rafael Viñoly. When Viñoly was selected as the architect for the museum’s ambitious renovation and…
The Art of Writing: Creative Collaborations with Literary Cleveland | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Feb, 2023 | Medium
Literary Cleveland is a nonprofit organization and creative writing center that empowers people to explore other voices and discover their own. Through an expanding roster of multilevel classes…
All That Glitters . . . Is Indeed Gold (part 2) | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Feb, 2023 | Medium
When confronted with the burse in person, the overwhelming impression is one of luxury and precious, expensive materials (fig. 1). The burse is not flat but rather three dimensional. Roughly 43.2 cm…
The Conservation of Venus Discovering the Dead Adonis and the Missing Boar | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Feb, 2023 | Medium
Venus Discovering the Dead Adonis, one of the most important and powerful Italian Baroque paintings in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA), is undergoing a multiyear conservation…
Photographs in Ink. Benjamin Levy, Guest Curator and PhD… | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Jan, 2023 | Medium
The exhibition Photographs in Ink, on view through April 2, 2023, looks at the intersection of photography and printmaking. Whether used for visual communication or creative expression, photographic…
New Voices of an Age-Old Art Form: An interview with artist Cao Ou | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Medium
Reconstructed Landscape No. 10 by Cao Ou (曹欧, born 1987) featured in the CMA’s Chinese rotation Modern Impressions (through May 7, 2023, Gallery 240A) is a visually striking example by a contemporary…
All That Glitters . . . Is Indeed Gold | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Jan, 2023 | Medium
By Robin Hanson, Conservator of Textiles, The Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holly Witchey, Adjunct Professor, Department of Art History and Art, Case Western Reserve University A seldom-seen object in…
The Thinker Blog. The Motrola to MIX: A Brief History of… | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Dec, 2022 | Medium
Ten years ago, when I was working as a sound engineer at Nighttown, the famed Cleveland Heights jazz club, Tom Welsh and I swapped business cards after we had a conversation about Cleveland’s musical…
Transatlantic Tales: Cultural Exchange Brings Treasures to Cleveland | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Medium
The current exhibition Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel, on view through January 8, 2023, in the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Exhibition Gallery, is a…
CMA Open Access: Celebrating Our Fourth Anniversary | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Jan, 2023 | Medium
It’s hard to believe that January marks four years of open access at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Since the 2019 launch the CMA continues to invest in its open access program, inspired by Director…
The Art of Collecting. By Heather Lemonedes Brown, CMA Deputy… | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Medium
The exhibition Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection celebrates the gift of more than 100 works of art from the collection of Clevelanders Nancy and Joe Keithley. Amassed over more than…
New on View: Modern Japan. By Sinéad Vilbar, Curator of Japanese… | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Medium
Our staff completed installation of the latest iteration of the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Japanese Art Galleries (235A–B) on October 14. While we say so long for now to the standouts from…