“From King Henry VII’s seizure of the throne in 1485 to the death of his granddaughter Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, England’s Tudor monarchs used art to legitimize and glorify their tumultuous reigns. The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England traces the transformation of… Read More
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Second Careers: Two Tributaries in African Art at The Cleveland Museum of Art, November 1, 2020 – March 14, 2021
“The connections between historical African art and contemporary practice are deep but not always apparent. Second Careers: Two Tributaries in African Art probes this connection through a smart selection of stellar highlights from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s African collection and loaned works by six… Read More
Michelangelo: Mind of the Master at The Cleveland Museum of Art, September 22, 2019 – January 5, 2020
“The Cleveland Museum of Art displays a selection of some of the finest and most celebrated drawings by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) in the extraordinary exhibition, Michelangelo: Mind of the Master. The centerpiece of the exhibition is a group of drawings with an illustrious provenance from… Read More
The Cleveland Museum of Art Presents Dana Schutz: Eating Atom Bombs at The Transformer Station, January 20 – April 15, 2018
“Dana Schutz returns to Cleveland with a new exhibition, Eating Atom Bombs, featuring a group of 12 paintings and three drawings created primarily in the past year. Seven of these works have never been exhibited before. The exhibition’s title speaks to the precariousness of our… Read More
Albert Oehlen: Woods near Oehle at The Cleveland Museum of Art, December 4, 2016 – March 12, 2017
“Albert Oehlen: Woods near Oehle examines German artist Albert Oehlen’s radical challenge to the traditions of painting with works from the last 30 years. The exhibition’s title alludes to Oehlen’s recurring use of the tree to test the boundaries of figuration and abstraction. Throughout his… Read More
Converging Lines: Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt at The Cleveland Museum of Art, April 3 – July 31, 2016
“Converging Lines: Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt explores the close friendship between two significant American artists of the postwar era: Eva Hesse (1936–1970) and Sol LeWitt (1928–2007). While their practices diverged in numerous ways, this exhibition illuminates the crucial impact of their friendship on both… Read More
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