Rafael Viñoly the new East Wing of the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA), which opened in June 2009. It is part of a large renovation project that is scheduled for completion in 2012. Hubbell and Benes designed the original building, completed in 1916, and Marcel Breuer designed an addition in 1971. A curved glass skylit roof covers the gathering courtyard in Vinoly's 2012 addition. In all there...
My hometown has been all over the news lately. The remains of 11 women were found in the East Cleveland home of Anthony Sowell, and his face has been plastered across the papers ever since.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) today announced the acquisition of "Jackie Curtis and Rita Red" (Oil on canvas, 1970) by Alice Neel (American, 1900-1984). Purchased from the collection of Mary Schiller Myers and Louis S. Myers at Sotheby’s in New York on November 11, "Jackie Curtis and Rita Red" is widely recognized as a superb example of Neel’s work...
CLEVELAND, OH.- Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection, a major traveling exhibition, developed by the Fenimore Art Museum, making its debut at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) in March 2010, explores Native North American art from the Eastern Woodlands to the Northwest through more than 140 masterpieces spanning 2,000 years. The exhibition provides visitors with a broad understanding and...
The big surprise on Monday was the announcement by the Miami Art Museum that MAM Director Terry Riley, who came to the museum just three and a half years ago, will step down immediately as director just one week after the museum unveiled the design for its new building. On Monday night Riley sent [...]
The Race Track (Death on a Pale Horse), Albert Pinkham Ryder (American, 1847 - 1917). The painting was inspired by a horse race that took place in New York in 1888. A waiter Ryder knew wagered $500 on the race, and then committed suicide when the horse lost ... In reference to the fatal horse race, Death rides on a racetrack, but rides in reverse to the usual direction. (Ryder sometimes referred to...
The American Decorative Arts Forum presents a discussion of early American miniatures at the Koret Auditorium By Seán Martinfield Sentinel Editor and Publisher Photo by Lynn ImanakaElle Shushan is foremost among American dealers in portrait miniatures. Shushan concentrates on the full range of the art, showing pieces from the 16th through the 20th centuries, with examples from Great [...]
I haven't had any more encounters of the praying guy here in Lakewood. But the other day, I did run across this snap I took in the parking garage at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The photo was taken almost a year ago so odds are slim that he's still there. Unless I learn of other sightings, this may be the last of the stick series - boo hoo! To see the Lakewood Daily Snap 'praying guy' series click...
Bellows painted Anne in White at Woodstock, New York, during the productive summer of 1920, when he had few distractions from painting. Anne, the eldest of the artist's two daughters, was his favourite model at this time in her life, for she posed in at least a half-dozen portraits between 1917 and 1921. She was a gentle, dreamy child, always thoughtful and well-behaved - just as she appears in Anne...
The power of this composition derives largely from the simple and realistic depiction of a bountiful American harvest, set below an ominous sky with rising storm clouds, perhaps as a metaphor for world events. The sharp, exacting details and transparent glazes were created by mixing oil paint with varnish and turpentine, a technique popular with American scene painters of the 1930s and 1940s. Shortly...
Breton Girls Dancing, Pont-Aven by Paul Gauguin , 1888, National Gallery of Art. Known as the Volpini Suite , the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, have organized and exhibition that re-creates Gauguin's ground-breaking show that is widely considered to be the first exhibition of Symbolist Art .
Word came on Wednesday (via Donald Rosenberg of the Cleveland Plain Dealer and to me via CultureGrrl) that an Ohio probate court, as expected, gave the Cleveland Museum of Art permission to use money from endowments restricted to art purchases for the ongoing expansion of its facilities. The decision, which as I wrote some weeks ago, will have audible reverberations in a museum world seeking increasingly...
"One of the Cleveland Museum of Art's biggest wishes for its expansion and renovation project has been granted: It will receive up to $75 million in income over 10 years from four funds designated for the purchase of art." The Cuyahoga County Probate Court granted permission to deviate from the purpose of the funds on Wednesday....
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