British Museum chair George Osborne last week met in London with Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for the sole purpose of discussing the repatriation of the so-called Elgin marbles to Greece. Following their meeting, the pair delivered an address at the London School of Economics, in which Mitsotakis acknowledged that […]
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Exploring Cotton by Kara Walker beyond a simple glance. | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker
By Michelle Orioha, CMA Student Guide The CMA Student Guide Program is the museum’s undergraduate training program. Students learn close-looking and engagement techniques and are given a variety of research and educational projects to draw connections between art and its relevance to our lives today. In this blog post, a […]
Cycles of Life: The Four Seasons Tapestries | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker
Robin Hanson, Conservator of Textiles and Sarah Scaturro, Eric and Jane Nord Chief Conservator Figure 1: Three of the four seasons tapestries on display in the Arlene M. and Arthur S. Holden Textile Gallery (gallery 234) For the exhibition Cycles of Life: The Four Seasons Tapestries, the CMA’s Textile Conservator […]
Women Painting Women at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Women Painting Women is a thematic exhibition featuring 46 female artists who choose women as subject matter in their works. This group show presented by The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth includes approximately 50 evocative portraits that span the late 1960s to the present. The exhibition was curated by Andrea Karnes, […]
Small but Mighty: Nano-Cellulose Applications in Photograph Conservation | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker
By Marissa Maynard The Cleveland Museum of Art’s (CMA) superb photography collection encompasses the history of the medium and offers a tremendous range, from cased photographs to salted paper prints to colored digital prints. For most photographic processes, the image layer is composed of silver particles in an emulsion. Some […]
The Hague, Mauritshuis Museum, and Delft
I had no idea how much I would love The Hague! It’s a beautiful and peaceful city, crisscrossed with canals, extremely walkable, full of many excellent restaurants, and with public transportation that makes it easy to get everywhere else in Holland. And on top of all that charm and livability, […]
Beyond the Wall Text: Contextualizing Carpeaux’s Why Born Enslaved! | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker
By Key Jo Lee, associate curator of American art Some of the reasons why curators place certain objects in certain places in the galleries are very apparent. This is by design. Typically, the goal is for each artwork to tell some part of a larger story that illuminates a time […]
Mel Kendrick at Parrish Art Museum
For more than five decades, sculptor Mel Kendrick has created visual puzzles by taking things apart and putting them back together again. The resulting works invert spatial oppositions, giving dimension to feelings of inner conflict. The artist’s retrospective, “Seeing Things in Things,” is an invitation to enjoy the traces of […]
Portland Museum of Art unveils finalists’ designs for expansion — Portland Museum of Art
New entryways on High Street. A rooftop wing featuring open space and live trees. Three separate nods to the Wabanaki. Those are some of the concepts incorporated by four teams of finalists chosen for the Portland Museum of Art Campus Unification + Expansion International Design Competition. The museum has outgrown […]
Artists Boycott Finland’s Kiasma Museum over Ties to Zionist Arms Heir
More than 150 artists have pledged to boycott Helsinki’s Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma until it severs relations with British-Finnish billionaire Chaim “Poju” Zabludowicz, who sits on the board of the institution’s support foundation. An avid collector who has over the past decade loaned a number of works to Kiasma, […]