Posted November 9, 200816 yr My partner and I went to the "Artistic Luxury" exhibit at CMA today, and I have to recommend it without reservation. The admission price is a little higher than most of the paid exhibits ($17 vs. $7), but considering they have pieces from Fabergé, Lalique, Tiffany, etc. and some on loan from folks like Queen Elizabeth II and His Serene Highness Prince Albert of Monaco - I imagine their insurance costs were a little higher. I decided to buy a one-year membership which included two free tickets to this exhibit so if we return for one more paid exhibit this year (since we get two free tickets for my individual membership, we will), the membership has paid for itself. Anyway, it was a *perfect* colorful escape from the cold grey weather we've had lately. As someone who majored in jewelry/metalsmithing in my undergrad, I could have spent all day there. Anyone with a nominal appreciation for art deco, art nouveau and fine jewelry would enjoy this show. Some of the pieces were the best of the best - I mean, everyone knows that Tiffany made lamps with dragonfly and butterfly motifs but how about one inspired by a spider (which absolutely f'in ROCKED)? The size of some of the stones were especially amazing and the use of some stones in ways you wouldn't imagine - lots of breathtaking pieces to be seen. Images from the Cleveland Museum of Art site: Nickel-sized yellow diamond there, folks: The detailing on the "easel" was amazing - each red "letter" flipped up to reveal a portrait (and this is about life-size): clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
November 9, 200816 yr ^No those are from CMA's site. clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
November 9, 200816 yr If you are interested in learning more about Tiffany, Faberge, and Lalique, please visit the Ingalls Library, in person, or online at http://library.clevelandart.org. We offer many opportunities to explore the artists in the exhibition and the Museum's collection. If you have any direct research interests regarding art, architecture, design, etc, feel free to contact me directly.
November 20, 200816 yr http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/arts/design/20arti.html Pact Will Relocate Artifacts to Italy From Cleveland By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO Published: November 19, 2008 ROME — The Cleveland Museum of Art has agreed to hand over 13 ancient artifacts and an early Renaissance cross to Italy after long negotiations, the museum and Italian officials announced here on Wednesday. The accord, signed at a news conference, is the fifth that Italy has struck over the last three years with an American museum in its campaign to win back artifacts that it asserts were looted in recent decades from Italian soil. http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
November 20, 200816 yr bah. we should keep that stuff. that way when italians visit the cle museum it would remind them about fascism and siding with the nazis.
November 21, 200816 yr bah. we should keep that stuff. that way when italians visit the cle museum it would remind them about fascism and siding with the nazis. you're right. The nerve of them! http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
November 21, 200816 yr if you read the full story, you will find the deal is quite amicable as far as these things go.
June 29, 200915 yr Art Museum director abandons Cleveland for Philadelphia: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/29/arts/design/29museum.html The Philadelphia Museum Chooses Its New Director By CAROL VOGEL Published: June 28, 2009 [ http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
July 2, 200915 yr Italy unveils antiquities returned by US museum By ARIEL DAVID – 1 hour ago ROME (AP) — Italian officials on Thursday unveiled 14 artifacts spanning from antiquity to the Middle Ages that were looted or stolen from Italy and recently returned by The Cleveland Museum of Art. Culture Ministry officials trumpeted Italy's latest victory in its campaign to recover antiquities they say were stolen or dug up by looters, smuggled out of the country and sold to prestigious museums and collectors across the world. More at http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ieF6zwJhG7nYx0bFa6CN2UH2soNQD996B52G0
September 17, 200915 yr The Cleveland Museum of Art Announces Noteworthy Additions to a Distinguished Collection CLEVELAND, OH.- The Cleveland Museum of Art today announced the acquisitions approved by the Collections Committee of the museum’s Board of Trustees at its September meeting. Of the works added to the collection by gift or purchase, the following are among the most noteworthy... http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=33342
September 29, 201014 yr CMA just got some art from Southern Africa, which is great. • Fifteen Portable Objects from Southern Africa — Acquisition makes Cleveland one of the few U.S. museums to possess a representative collection of high-quality southern African art. http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=41145 http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/14809
April 11, 201114 yr Here what the three "Water Lillies" look like combined: http://www.fox4kc.com/news/wdaf--monet-tryptic-displayed-nelsonatkins-20110410,0,854454.story Cleveland will get to show all three in 2015, just in time for a highly anticipated centennial celebration...along with the expansion complete.
June 4, 201114 yr Cross posted: Cleveland Museum of Art acquires a stellar collection of Congolese art from Odette Delenne of Belgium Published: Friday, June 03, 2011, 6:00 PM Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer CLEVELAND, Ohio — One of the world’s greatest available private collections of traditional Congolese sculpture from the 19th and early 20th centuries has been snagged by the Cleveland Museum of Art because a Belgian art lover became convinced her treasures would have the most impact in Cleveland. The museum announced Friday that it has acquired 35 of the best works from the collection amassed by Odette Delenne of Brussels and her late husband, Rene Delenne, from the late 1950s to the late 1970s. She was not interested in seeing the collection subsumed in a large museum in America, where it would have had less visibility than it will in Cleveland. “Her realization was that at the Met [the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York] the collection would be lost,” Petridis said. http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2011/06/cleveland_museum_of_art_acquir_3.html
September 24, 20177 yr Watching the national CBS Sunday Morning News and Cleveland Museum of Art had a shout out in their arts segment, for the current exhibit / feature being 100 years since Rodin died: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-new-season-art-fall-2017/
January 8, 20187 yr Infinity Mirror Rooms Coming to Cleveland Museum of Art http://www.ideastream.org/news/infinity-mirror-rooms-coming-to-cleveland-museum-of-art "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
January 8, 20187 yr Wow, that is a major get! I tried (unsuccessfully) to get tickets to the show at the Broad Museum in LA, but they were always sold out. Day of standby tickets drew hour long lines starting in the early morning. People will definitely be traveling throughout the Midwest and midatlantic to come see this. Great for Cleveland and Ohio to get this kind of buzz!
January 8, 20187 yr Infinity Mirror Rooms Coming to Cleveland Museum of Art http://www.ideastream.org/news/infinity-mirror-rooms-coming-to-cleveland-museum-of-art I saw this in LA. It was fantastic.
April 8, 20187 yr i read a great article interviewing sylvain bellenger, the former curator at the cle museum of of art, who is now in naples. it was interesting re the people of naples, the task of garnering support, the issue of exhibits vs the permanent collection and of course cleveland: “...the director of Cleveland Museum of Art called me and asked if I would be interested in being in charge of the European collection. I went to Cleveland to see the collection, especially the famous Jacques-Louis David painting that I had studied for many months and then I started to think, “it must be very interesting; this could be such an adventure!” I had decided to be very difficult so the director asked me if I needed an apartment, and what sort of apt did I want? I said, “I want a bathroom, a bedroom, and a ballroom.” [Laughter] and they found it for me! They found it! I had a marvelous apartment with a very large living room in one of those 1930s buildings in Cleveland Heights.” more: https://brooklynrail.org/2018/04/art/SYLVAIN-BELLENGER-with-David-Carrier-and-Joachim-Pissarro
October 18, 20186 yr "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
December 20, 20195 yr Hey @KJP - is Maurice Prendergast a relative? I found this at the Cleveland Museum of Art in the room next to the Armor Court. When is the last time I-71 turned a profit?
December 20, 20195 yr Yes, but very distant "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
March 11, 20205 yr WOW! Cleveland Museum of Art receives gift of $100M worth of art from Joseph and Nancy Keithley https://www.cleveland.com/arts/2020/03/cleveland-museum-of-art-receives-gift-of-100m-worth-of-art-from-joseph-and-nancy-keithley.html CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland Museum of Artannounced it has received one of the biggest individual gifts in its history, a collection of more than 100 modern European and American paintings, prints and drawings, plus Chinese and Japanese works, valued at more than $100 million. The collection, assembled over the past 20 years by Clevelanders Joseph and Nancy Keithley, is the biggest single donation in monetary value since the 1958 bequest of $34 million by Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., worth $306 million in 2020 dollars. The gift represents a major step toward reaching the museum’s goal of adding $1 billion worth of art to its collection by 2027, outlined in its 2017 strategic plan. When is the last time I-71 turned a profit?
January 17, 20223 yr We went to CLE for the Revealing Krishna exhibit last weekend, my first time at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The exhibit was very well done, more of a history of the restoration of two statues than an exhibit of Cambodian art. The CMA is very nice, the atrium is beautiful. We live next to the Toledo Museum of Art, and visit there often too.
December 23, 20231 yr the museum is in hot water in the art world for battling to keep a roman statue from turkey that they bought in 1986 that rather obviously appears to have been looted: A Cleveland Museum’s Bad Bet on a Looted Roman Statue The Cleveland Museum of Art took a gamble in 1986 that none of its peers in the museum field had been willing to take. Now payment has come due. Elizabeth Marlowe December 15, 2023 more: https://hyperallergic.com/862516/cleveland-museum-bad-bet-looted-roman-statue/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=W122323&utm_content=W122323+CID_e533af6bec9f914734c6493f65fb1255&utm_source=hn&utm_term=A+Cleveland+Museums+Bad+Bet+on+a+Looted+Roman+Statue “Draped Male Figure” (circa 150 BCE–200 CE) at the Cleveland Museum of Art. In a previous description on the museum’s website, the headless statue was described as “The Emperor as Philosopher, probably Marcus Aurelius,” and dated to the period immediately following Marcus’ death (“180-200 CE,”). (courtesy the the Cleveland Museum of Art)
March 27, 20241 yr hanging a monet — https://www.instagram.com/reel/C48LeUPM6E8/?igsh=MWU3dDJqNjJqeTc3NA==
March 29, 20241 yr The Cleveland Museum of Art is number 100 in the rankings of most visited art museums in the entire world: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/03/26/the-100-most-popular-art-museums-in-the-world-2023 - (soft paywall) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-visited_art_museums - same information transposed to Wikipedia It ranks number 30 for most visited art museums in the U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-visited_museums_in_the_United_States
March 30, 20241 yr crowd pleaser monet show starts march 31 — https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5EWQQdp8D5/?igsh=dWN5MmNrN3Axb2Jq
April 21, 20241 yr hey i just noticed this, but an old friend from college has a show at moca — definitely go check it out — it runs until rnd of may — 👍 https://www.mocacleveland.org/exhibitions/andrea-bowers-exist-fourish-evolve
May 2, 20241 yr The CMA has a number of diverse, interesting exhibitions going on simultaneasly: The abvove mentions Monet in focus - https://www.clevelandart.org/exhibitions/monet-focus and the above mentioned Korean Couture - https://www.clevelandart.org/exhibitions/korean-couture-generations-revolution there is also an immersive exhibition titled "Into the Seven Jeweled Mountain" which is being jointly displayed at CMA and the National Palace Museum of Korea in Seoul - https://www.clevelandart.org/exhibitions/seven-jeweled-mountain-immersive-experience Africa and Byzantium, and exhibition jointy organized by the Met and CMA - https://www.clevelandart.org/exhibitions/africa-byzantium as well as Fairy Tales and Fables in the print galleries - https://www.clevelandart.org/exhibitions/fairy-tales-and-fables-illustration-and-storytelling-art
May 24, 20241 yr needed — 👍 Cleveland Museum of Art launches $8 million entrance remodel BY DOUGLAS J. GUTH ARTS & CULTURE MAY 23, 2024 Renovation of the museum’s main entrance and lower lobby began this month, with the aim of streamlining the guest experience. The Cleveland Museum of Art attracted about 500,000 visitors in 2005, the same year it began a $320 million expansion that eventually doubled its exhibition space. New programming and presentations have increased attendance, to the tune of 650,000 guests last year and 685,000 thus far in 2024. A surge in attendees also created a problem, albeit a good one, said CMA chief marketing officer Todd Mesek. Put simply, the museum’s lobbies became congested, creating pinch points for larger crowds and negatively impacting the visitor experience. more: https://thelandcle.org/stories/cleveland-museum-of-art-remodel/ Museum facilities will remain open throughout the renovation of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s main entrance and lobby areas. (Rendering courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art)
January 25Jan 25 murakami may - sept https://www.instagram.com/p/DFOb6d4PK4a/?img_index=3&igsh=dTZxcnBsNDljZW9q
April 22Apr 22 gearing up for murakami — https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIoQeUspGMz/?igsh=ZzB0N3c2aW9oaWcy
May 16May 16 takashi murakami is up —https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJrwtmNJLNX/?igsh=MWs3dDF4amFpb3F0Yw==
May 19May 19 On 5/16/2025 at 2:03 PM, mrnyc said:takashi murakami is up —https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJrwtmNJLNX/?igsh=MWs3dDF4amFpb3F0Yw==I did a quick walkthrough a few weeks ago and saw them setting this up in the atrium: When is the last time I-71 turned a profit?
May 19May 19 Looks great! I wonder if this pagoda/shrine can be appropriated at the end of the show and reconstructed in the Cultural Gardens to represent Japan? LOL.
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