One of my students asked me about museum sketching, and I thought my answer would make a nice blog post: This is me sketching from Velazquez’ Las Meninas in the Prado museum in Madrid, Spain a few years ago. There was a near-constant crowd of people in front of this […]
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“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 […]
Reimagining Portland’s museum — inside the four PMA expansion proposals — Portland Museum of Art
This article appears in the Portland Phoenix. The Portland Museum of Art is a postmodernist landmark on the city’s Congress Square. The museum is now planning an even more dramatic architectural landmark that may upstage the handsome brick façade with its signature quartet of arches. Back in 1983, the Portland […]
Looking into the Wishing Well. By Matthew Gengler, Access Services and… | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Oct, 2022
By Matthew Gengler, Access Services and Reference Librarian In a pivotal scene from The Kid from Cleveland, actors George Brent and a young Russ Tamblyn stand over the Cleveland Museum of Art’s wishing well. Tamblyn, playing the kid, is invited to make a wish Johnny. The movie, set in 1949, […]
Component Parts of Collections Management: Who’s Who? | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Oct, 2022
By Sydney Slacas, Assistant Registrar When you stop by the Cleveland Museum of Art, have you at any time thought about who cares for the amazing collection? With the collection spanning nearly 6,000 decades of artistic accomplishment, the CMA’s Collections Management crew works tricky every day to put in exhibitions, […]
After a Covid Contraction, Museums Are Expanding Again — Portland Museum of Art
“Are we constructing the correct building?” claimed James Steward, the director of the Princeton University Artwork Museum, concerning its new making, built by David Adjaye. “Are we providing ourselves enough potential proofing?” That “future proofing” has intended attempting to develop in as substantially adaptability as attainable, Mr. Steward claimed, so […]
Rubens’ House and the Royal Museum (KMSKA) by Sadie Valeri
Did you know that you can get from Paris to Antwerp by teach in just two several hours? I did not! It was so easy that my partner Nowell and I extra it as a halt on our latest trip to Paris, The Hague, Amsterdam, and Vienna, and I’m so […]
Artists’ Collections in the Archives: Digitizing Cleveland’s Artistic History | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Sep, 2022
By Sara Kunkemueller, Digitization Intern, Ingalls Library and Museum Archives This summer months, I joined the Ingalls Library and Museum Archives as a digitization intern. My function involved numerous jobs, from updating metadata to scanning publications for the World wide web Archive, but a great deal of my time was […]
Kennedy Museum of Art reopens with exhibit honoring two Graphic Design emeriti faculty | Campus News
The Kennedy Museum of Art opened an exhibit — “Legacy: Don Adleta and Karen Nulf, 60 years of graphic design” — this week, marking the reopening of the museum. “Legacy” chronicles the contributions of two professors emeritus of graphic design, Don Adleta and Karen Nulf, and their 60 years of […]
Bengaluru’s Museum of Art and Photography launched digitally
It seems like COVID-19 does have a silver lining after all as Bengluru’s Museum of Art and Photography (MAP) is all set to be launched with a celebratory six-day festival from December 5 to December 11. The museum situated on Kasturba Road, will be physically launched in 2021, but owing […]