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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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 Determine 1: Three of the 4 seasons tapestries on exhibit in the Arlene M. and Arthur S. Holden Textile Gallery (gallery 234) For the exhibition Cycles of Daily life: The 4 Seasons Tapestries, the CMA’s Textile […]
“TEXTURES” of “The New Black Vanguard”: A Glimpse into the Intersection of Artists Musing on Black Hair | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker
By Dr. Tameka Ellington, Speaker, Author, and Cocurator of “TEXTURES: the history and art of Black hair” People of African descent have hair that is like no other race of people. It is the number one racial identifier, skin tone being the second. Afro or Black hair grows out of […]
Artists’ Collections in the Archives: Digitizing Cleveland’s Artistic History | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker
By Sara Kunkemueller, Digitization Intern, Ingalls Library and Museum Archives This summer, I joined the Ingalls Library and Museum Archives as a digitization intern. My function associated quite a few initiatives, from updating metadata to scanning guides for the Net Archive, but substantially of my time was committed to digitizing […]
Component Parts of Collections Management: Who’s Who? | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Oct, 2022
By Sydney Slacas, Assistant Registrar When you take a look at the Cleveland Museum of Art, have you ever assumed about who cares for the incredible selection? With the assortment spanning practically 6,000 decades of creative accomplishment, the CMA’s Collections Management staff will work challenging just about every day to […]
Beyond the Wall Text: Contextualizing Carpeaux’s Why Born Enslaved! | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Sep, 2022
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 […]