Cleveland Art, March/April 2020

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  • Member Magazine
Published: March 1, 2020

In this issue of the members magazine: Acquisitions 2019; Meet Kristen Windmuller-Luna; Queen of the Leica; Gold Needles; A Graphic Revolution; Aleksandra Vrebalov Antennae; 17th Century Meets 21st; Exploring the Americas

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Acquisitions 2019

The Cleveland Museum of Art’s mission is to create transformative experiences through art, for the benefit of all the people forever. The encyclopedic collection—ranging from the ancient world through today, representing art created in all corners of the globe—is central to our identity. Each year w...

Meet Kristen Windmuller-Luna

Kristen Windmuller-Luna joined the museum as curator of African arts in January, having previously held a curatorial post at the Brooklyn Museum. A widely published scholar, she was featured in Henry Louis Gates’s 2017 PBS documentary Africa’s Great Civilizations. She graduated with a BA in art hist...

Queen of the Leica

“I didn’t choose photography; it chose me,” said Ilse Bing. Bing was just a snapshooter until forced to hone her photographic skills to produce illustrations for her doctoral dissertation at the University of Frankfurt on an 18th-century architect. Then in 1929, on a university field trip, the 30-y...

Gold Needles

In partnership with the Seoul Museum of Craft Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art presents Gold Needles: Embroidery Arts from Korea to celebrate the textile arts of Korean women during the later years of the Joseon dynasty (1392−1910). At that time, when the conservative interpretation of neo-Confucian...

One Hundred Children at Play (detail), early 1900s. Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910). Ten-panel folding screen; embroidery on silk. Seoul Museum of Craft Art, 2018-D-Huh-0001

A Graphic Revolution

Printmaking gained popularity throughout Latin America beginning in the early 20th century, offering artists a new, democratic way to express themselves while reaching the broadest possible audience. Working in countries including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, and Mexico, artists began to experime...

Aleksandra Vrebalov Antennae

The world premiere of Antennae by Aleksandra Vrebalov is the third in a series of compositions commissioned by the museum in partnership with the Cleveland Foundation. This evening-long sound experience features members of the Kovilj Monastery choir, 60 local singers, four trumpets, two organs from...

17th Century Meets 21st

In 2017 two interns from the Patricia H. and Richard E. Garmin Art Conservation Department at SUNY Buffalo State College worked to restore a 17th-century British overmantel by Grinling Gibbons (1648–1721) that now graces the new British gallery. Mary Wilcop was the William E. and Mary F. Conway Grad...

Exploring the Americas

As a young girl, Andrea Vazquez de Arthur took art classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art and attended jazz concerts in its courtyard. “My dad would bring me here often on the weekends,” she says. “The African and Native American masks really stood out.”

She is still studying the art of the Americas...

Andrea Vazquez de Arthur