By Yiwen Liu, CMA Curatorial Research Assistant As a series of prequels to the Harry Potter movies, a third movie in the world of wizardry was recently released in the Fantastic Beasts series. Despite the new movie’s mixed reviews, it still provides a delightful new variety of cute and imaginative […]
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Robin Hanson, Conservator of Textiles and Sarah Scaturro, Eric and Jane Nord Chief Conservator Determine 1: Three of the four seasons tapestries on show in the Arlene M. and Arthur S. Holden Textile Gallery (gallery 234) For the exhibition Cycles of Existence: The Four Seasons Tapestries, the CMA’s Textile Conservator […]
By Dr. Tameka Ellington, Speaker, Creator, and Cocurator of “TEXTURES: the record and art of Black hair” People today of African descent have hair that is like no other race of people. It is the number one particular racial identifier, pores and skin tone being the second. Afro or Black […]
By Sydney Slacas, Assistant Registrar When you pay a visit to the Cleveland Museum of Art, have you at any time assumed about who cares for the remarkable assortment? With much more than 64,000 objects spanning practically 6,000 several years of artistic achievement, the CMA’s Collections Administration staff is effective […]
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 […]
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 […]