Usher in the New Year with a family visit to the newly renovated Cleveland Art Museum. Visit the new Atrium, exhibits and restaurant as well as old favorites. It’s education with a twist of fun to it. The galleries are spacious and easy to walk through with plenty of places to sit, rest and contemplate the many artistic wonders housed at the museum. Plan your trip with the entire family today.
Exhibitions
American Vesuvius
The Aftermath of Mount St. Helens
Frank Gohlke and Emmet Gowin
January 13, 2013 to May 12, 2013
Free
In 1980, the first significant volcanic eruption in the continental United States since 1915 occurred on Mount St. Helens in Washington State. The force of the explosion was cataclysmic: the entire north face of the mountain slid away and entire forests were flattened. This exhibition brings together important series by two photographers who, working independently, took to the air to reveal nature's terrifying transformation of the landscape. Emmet Gowin's images were all shot in 1981; these aerial views became a central approach to his art. Frank Gohlke returned to the region numerous times between 1981 and 1990. His photographs testify to the volcano's destructive force but also the stirrings of the land's rebirth as the years passed.
Fred Wilson
Now through May 5, 2013
Free
An American conceptual artist born in the Bronx in 1954, Fred Wilson is also a political activist. From the beginning, Wilson’s artistic practice has been guided by one question: How is it possible to pose critical questions about museum practices within a museum itself? Through site-specific art interventions in collaboration with museums and cultural institutions, Wilson has developed a strategy of infiltrating institutional structures. Yet even in his non-installation, autonomous works, Wilson’s stance is clear: He attempts to undermine the discourse-determining status of cultural institutions, almost from the inside out, by employing those institutions’ own vocabularies, concepts and methods. His installation in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s glass box gallery brings together four different works by Wilson, giving a representative overview of his highly influential and diverse practice.
Picasso and the Mysteries of Life
Deconstructing La Vie
Now through April 21, 2013
Free
Picasso and the Mysteries of Life is the first exhibition devoted to an intensive exploration of La Vie, the artist’s culminating masterwork of the Blue Period and a signature work in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The exhibition is accompanied by new scientific studies of Picasso’s working methods and a groundbreaking book that uses the painting as the touchstone for examining an array of issues vital to modernist culture of the 19th and 20th centuries. By placing the painting in previously unconsidered historical contexts, the exhibition and book shed new light on the creative processes of the 20th century’s most important and influential artist.
Wari: Lords of the Ancient Andes
Now through January 6, 2013
Free
Between 600 and 1000, long before the Inca, the Wari forged a complex society widely regarded today as ancient Peru’s first empire. Wari: Lords of the Ancient Andes, the first exhibition of its kind in North America, opens up this exciting yet virtually unknown episode in ancient American history through 150 startlingly beautiful art works in all major Wari media: masterful ceramics; precious ornaments made of inlays or gold and silver; sculpture; and sumptuous garments from one of the world’s most distinguished textile traditions.
William H. Johnson
An American Modern
Now through January 27, 2013
Free
William Henry Johnson (1901–1970) is a pivotal figure in modern American art. A virtuoso skilled in various media and techniques, he produced thousands of works over a career that spanned decades, continents, and genres. On view in its entirety for the first time, a seminal collection of 20 landscapes, still life paintings and portraits covering key stages in Johnson’s career will be presented in William H. Johnson: An American Modern. Developed by Baltimore’s James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Morgan State University, this SITES exhibition represents a unique opportunity to share the artist’s oeuvre with a broader audience. The Cleveland Museum of Art will feature additional works from its own collection.
William H. Johnson: An American Modern, an exhibition developed by Morgan State University and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, is made possible through the partial support of the Henry Luce Foundation, and the Morgan State University Foundation, Inc. Additional support for this exhibition was provided by the Ford Motor Company Fund.
Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in 19th-Century Paris
Now through January 21, 2013
Free
Primarily drawn from the permanent collection, this exhibition will juxtapose the museum’s strong holdings of works on paper by Mary Cassatt with images of women by her contemporaries such as Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Berthe Morisot, Auguste Renoir, James Tissot and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Organized thematically, the exhibition will explore 19th-century visions of femininity ranging from the bourgeois wife and mother to peasant women of the countryside in the midst of rural labor to urban women at work in the ballet and the brothel.
Studio Glass in Focus: Dialogue and Innovation
Now through April 14, 2013
Free
Marking the 50th anniversary of the studio glass movement in America, Studio Glass in Focus: Dialogue and Innovation showcases works of art in glass from the early pioneers of the studio movement—which began in 1962 in Toledo, Ohio—through today’s artistic innovators. This focus exhibition highlights the dialogue between artists as teachers and students and how they influenced each other. On view are older works as well as works by artists who have forged new ground, revealing the innovative approaches of glass artists today.
Special Events
MIX at CMA: Runway
Friday, January 4, 2012
5:00–9:00 p.m.
Join us for an evening of culture and couture. Sip a cocktail, discover fashion in the galleries, watch runway shows featuring collections from local designers and craft your own accessories at the make-it station. Featuring Project Tunic, Yellow Cake, the Textile Art Alliance and the students of Virginia Marti College.
Project Tunic (7:00 to 7:30 p.m.)
Wari inspiration meets 21st-century fashion in Project Tunic, a runway show of clothing inspired by this ancient Andean culture. Three finalists will have their designs displayed in the museum’s new Atrium after the runway show. Judged by Valerie Mayen, former Project Runway contestant and owner of Yellowcake, fashion blogger Jessica Noelle of Midwest Muse and Tina Cassara of the Cleveland Institute of Art. Sue Bergh, curator of Wari: Lords of the Ancient Andes, will also award Curator’s Choice prize.
MIX: Runway is the fourth event in a new series of first Friday happy hours, MIX at CMA. Each month, the series highlights a different aspect of the museum and its collection. Art, music and cocktails; something different every month.
Advance tickets are $8; $10 day of event. Members: free. Reservations strongly recommended. Call (216) 421-7350. Cash bar and food available for purchase.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration
Monday, January 21
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Be among the first to experience Gallery One, an innovative space that blends art, technology and interpretation. Celebrate the day with a variety of hands-on activities, programs and more.
Lectures
Public Women
Actresses, Dancers and Prostitutes in 19th-Century Paris
Wednesday, January 9, 2013, 6:30 p.m.
Free
Speaker: Dr. Mary Weaver Chapin, Portland Art Museum
While Mary Cassatt and her contemporaries celebrated the lives of women in the home, other artists turned their gaze to “public women,” the actresses, dancers, bar maids and prostitutes who constituted the entertainment class of fin-de-siècle Paris. This lecture examines the work of Degas, Manet, Toulouse-Lautrec and others who explored the darker side of the feminine ideal.
Contemporary Artists Lecture Series
Pieter Hugo
Saturday, January 19
2:00 p.m. (Rescheduled)
Free (Ticket Required)
Pieter Hugo will give a talk on work, including his recent series Permanent Error. These images were shot at a dump in Ghana filled with enormous amount of discarded technology junk shipped from industrialized Western countries. Like earlier series such as The Hyena and Other Men, Nollywood and The Albino Project, Permanent Error presents unsettling results of conflicts of race, class and contemporary post-industrial culture in Africa.
William H. Johnson
Primitiveness, Modernism & African American Culture
Sunday, January 20, 2013
2:00 p.m.
Free
The idiosyncratic life trajectory of American artist, William Henry Johnson (1901-1970), explains in part his shifting approaches to painting, and yet Johnson’s soft-voiced declaration of his membership in his “family of primitiveness and tradition” accounted for his career-long focus on a painterly and colorful expressionism. Dr. Richard Powell, John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University, tracks Johnson’s commitment to an emotionally charged mode of painting that, despite varying contexts and different chronological moments, reflects the universal and avant-garde dimensions of his biographical source material.
Two Projects
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
7:00 p.m.
Free
William Pope. L will speak about two co-existing and opposing impulses observed in his own work and in contemporary art over the past twenty years: the desire for wholeness, a center, origins, an anchor and stability in an artwork, and simultaneously, the drive for fragmentation, dispersal, centerlessness, floating and drifting and instability. “Perhaps this condition has always been with us,” Pope. L muses. “Or perhaps its existence in art today is simply a case of coveting the cake and wanting to eat it too. Or—maybe this mode is the only truly conscious way to make art today, and perhaps there is nothing so dramatic occurring here as opposition and contradiction, but instead, merely necessary complements and contraries.”
American Vesuvius
Emmet Gowin: A Life in Photography
Saturday, February 2, 2013
2:00 p.m.
Emmet Gowin, eminent photographer and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, looks back and reviews his life’s work and involvement with photography. A survey of his images, which will serve as an outline of that experience, will be accompanied by first-hand stories reflecting on the influences, personalities and ideas that have grounded Gowin’s life and work.
Art & Fiction Book Club
The Greater Journey
Americans in Paris
By David McCullough
Wednesdays, Jan. 16, Jan. 23 and Jan. 30
1:30 p.m.
The Greater Journey…chronicles the inspiring tale of American artists, writers, architects and others who settled in Paris between 1830 and 1900. The cast of notable Americans captivated by “the city of light” reads like a “who’s who” of American arts and letters: Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, George P.A. Healy, James Fenimore Cooper, Samuel F. B. Morse and Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Great Journey… is masterfully written and brings to life the audacious men and women who the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gauden’s said, longed “to soar into the blue.”
Art & Fiction Book Club is a monthly book club that features a series of three sessions for a book. A book is thematically chosen in conjunction with the museum’s collection and special exhibitions.
Wednesday, Jan. 16, 1:30 p.m.: Lecture/Presentation
Wednesday, Jan. 23, 1:30 p.m.: Book Discussion
Wednesday, Jan. 30, 1:30 p.m.: Museum Tour
Tickets $50; CMA members $40. Please call (216) 421-7350 for reservations.
Workshop/Demonstration
Old Friends, New Experiences
William H. Johnson: An American Modern
January 13
11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Free
The first event in the new Second Sundays programming series for families invites you to explore the exhibition with a free family guide, learn a few steps of jitterbug and make a collage inspired by William H. Johnson. Plus, discover the newly opened galleries in the museum’s historic 1916 building. This family day celebrates the works of William H. Johnson and inaugurates a year of family fun at the CMA.
Activities Include
Art-Making, 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Ames Family Atrium and Classrooms
- Creative Calendars: Make a decorative calendar to help you start your year off right.
- New Year’s Resolutions: What are your goals for the New Year? Share yours and see what your friends hope to do on this collaborative resolution board.
- Jitterbug Stamps: No need to dance the night away when you can stamp the day away! Families use a variety of simple stamps to create their own quick-drying collages inspired by works in William H. Johnson: An American Modern.
Art Cart, 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., Plain Dealer Lobby
A hands-on experience in the galleries. Join us as docents choose their favorite objects to share.
Dance, 2:00 p.m., Ames Family Atrium
Do the Jitterbug! Shake off the winter chill and celebrate William H. Johnson: An American Modern by getting your Jitterbug on with Valerie Salstrom of Get Hep Swing. Learn steps to dances Johnson saw in clubs in New York during the 1930s.
Music, throughout the day, Key Bank Lobby
Stroller Tours
Wednesday, January 2
& Wednesday, January 16
10:30 a.m. to11:30 a.m.
Babies welcome! Join us the first and third Wednesday of each month for a casual and lively discussion led by a museum educator in the galleries - just for parents and caregivers and their pre-toddler age (18 months and younger) children. Expect a special kind of outing that allows for adult conversation where no one minds if a baby lends his or her opinion with a coo or a cry. Meet in the North Lobby.
Upcoming topics
Jan. 2: Is pink really just for girls? (Color in art)
Jan. 16: Who owns the past? (Issues of cultural repatriation)
Register at the ticket center, $7 per adult/infant pair, $5 members
Music and Performing Arts
Music in the Galleries
First Wednesdays, 6:00 p.m., now through May 2013
Free
The galleries come alive with chamber music in a regular series of free concerts devoted to highlighting the extraordinary wealth of classical music talent around University Circle. From string quartets to keyboardists to unexpected small ensembles, young artists from the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Case Western Reserve University early music program perform a wide range of repertoire in matinee performances. Programs to be announced week of performance: check the museum’s Facebook page, Twitter, and web site for details.
James Feddeck, solo organ
Sunday, January 13, 2013, 2:30 p.m.
Free
Organist James Feddeck has performed recitals throughout Europe and North America, won competitions sponsored by the American Guild of Organists and has been featured on Pipedreams, a nationally syndicated radio program. His musical training and background is unusually diverse and multifaceted. He was admitted to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in four areas—piano, oboe, organ and conducting a rare distinction. Now in his third season as Assistant Conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, Feddeck made his debut with the orchestra in August 2009 at the Blossom Music Festival. In March 2011, he appeared for the first time on the orchestra’s subscription series in Severance Hall, replacing Music Director Franz Welser-Möst at the last minute in the Zurich Opera’s production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. He has led a number of new initiatives with the orchestra, including “Italian Masterworks,” a concert series and innovative collaboration between the Cleveland Orchestra and the Cleveland Museum of Art. In 2010 he was recognized by Oberlin as the first recipient of the Outstanding Young Alumni Award for professional achievement and contributions to society. Program includes works by J. S. Bach, Brahms, Buxtehude, A. Foote and others. Free, no tickets required.
These programs made possible in part by the Ernest L. and Louise M. Gartner Fund, the P. J. McMyler Musical Endowment Fund and the Anton and Rose Zverina Music Fund.
Kronos Quartet
Friday, January 18, 2013
7:30 p.m.
Probably the single most influential ensemble in chamber music, Kronos Quartet has redefined expectations and possibilities of the string quartet. Theirs is a musical life of extraordinary breadth and creativity, marked by collaborating with many of the world’s most eclectic composers and performers and commissioning more than 750 works for string quartet. Along the way, they have confounded genre classifications like “world” and “classical,” created an enormous body of work and set a new standard for excellence in chamber music. Making their second appearance on the Gartner Auditorium stage, Kronos presents a program of wide-ranging music whose centerpiece is the young Serbian composer Aleksandra Vrebalov’s . . . hold me, neighbor, in this storm . . . .
Tickets $34–$54
King Lear
Contemporary Legend Theatre of Taiwan
Friday, January 25, 2013
7:30 p.m.
Breen Center for the Performing Arts
Saint Ignatius High School
1911 West 30th St.
Cleveland, Ohio 44113 (Location Updated)
In this unique blend of awe-inspiring virtuosity of Beijing Opera acting style and visually stunning Western stagecraft, the celebrated Taiwanese actor Wu Hsing-kuo adapts themes and relationships from Shakespeare’s monumental tragedy of power and deception, King Lear. Delivering a one man tour de force, Wu Hsing-kuo simultaneously depicts multiple characters, from the maniacal Lear and his ally Gloucester, to his evil, grasping daughters and the pitiful, lonely Fool. Combining richly embroidered and colorful costumes, dazzling martial arts, contemporary dance, superb visual effects and live Chinese music and song, Wu creates what The Guardian calls “One of the best blends of Eastern and Western techniques . . . In any language this is exciting theatre.” Cleveland debut. In Mandarin with English supertitles.
Tickets $34–$54
Chanticleer
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
9:00 p.m.
Called “the world’s reigning male chorus” by the New Yorker and named Ensemble of the Year by Musical America in 2008, the ever-popular Chanticleer helps continue the celebration of the museum’s Renaissance galleries in the splendor of the newly built Ames Family Atrium with “A Siren’s Call.” The seductive and irresistible songs of the sirens—sometimes fateful, sometimes fatal—fill Chanticleer’s 35th anniversary opening program. Renowned Chinese composer Chen Yi sounds the call in her own inimitable language and celebrated Irish composer Michael McGlynn channels the undeniable connection of Ireland and the sea that surrounds it. Other works by Bates, Gabrieli, Palestrina, Gesualdo and more. Based in San Francisco, Chanticleer is known around the world for the seamless blend of its twelve male voices ranging from countertenor to bass, and for its original interpretations of vocal literature, from Renaissance to jazz and from gospel to venturesome new music.
Tickets $39–$59
These programs made possible in part by the Ernest L. and Louise M. Gartner Fund, the P. J. McMyler Musical Endowment Fund, and the Anton and Rose Zverina Music Fund
Films
Head Games
Wednesday, January 2
7:00 p.m.
Directed by Steve James. The new nonfiction film from the director of Hoop Dreams examines debilitating, sports-related head injuries among professional and high school athletes. Cleveland premiere.
USA, 2012, color, video, 95 min.
Admission is $9; CMA members, seniors 65 & over, and students $7; or one CMA Film Series voucher. Vouchers, in books of ten, can be purchased at the Ticket Center for $70 (CMA members $60).
Free Radicals
A History of Experimental Film
Wednesday, January 9
7:00 p.m.
Directed by Pip Chodorov. With Stan Brakhage, Ken Jacobs, Jonas Mekas, Michael Snow, et al. This brief history of avant-garde cinema includes complete films, film clips and interviews with some of the genre’s greatest innovators. Cleveland premiere. France, 2012, b&w/color, subtitles, video, 82 min.
Admission is $9; CMA members, seniors 65 & over, and students $7; or one CMA Film Series voucher. Vouchers, in books of ten, can be purchased at the Ticket Center for $70 (CMA members $60).
Tales of the Night
Friday, January 11
7:00 p.m.
Sunday, January 13,
1:30 p.m.
Directed by Michel Ocelot. The gorgeous new animated film from the director of Kirikou and the Sorceress is set in an abandoned movie theatre where two children imagine a series of fairy tales set in different lands. These stories (of princesses, sorcerers, dragons and talking animals) then come miraculously to life on screen with the kids as principle players. Shown on Friday with English subtitles and on Sunday in an English-language version. Cleveland premiere. France, 2011, color, video, 84 min.
Admission is $9; CMA members, seniors 65 & over, and students $7; or one CMA Film Series voucher. Vouchers, in books of ten, can be purchased at the Ticket Center for $70 (CMA members $60).
Joshua Bell in Person!
The Return of the Violin
Wednesday, January 16
7:00 p.m.
Directed by Haim Hecht. With Joshua Bell. This new documentary tells the remarkable story of a 1731 Stradivarius violin once owned by Israeli Philharmonic founder Bronislaw Huberman. Stolen in 1936 while Huberman played Carnegie Hall, it remained “lost” for nearly 50 years but was rediscovered in 1985 covered with shoe polish. Meticulously restored after being returned to Lloyd’s of London, it was eventually put up for sale as a museum piece. Disturbed that such an instrument would remain silent, American virtuoso Joshua Bell purchased the Huberman Stradivarius and now plays it during his concerts. Bell will answer questions after the screening. Cleveland premiere. Gartner Auditorium. Israel, 2012, color, subtitles, video, 64 min.
Presented as part of the Cleveland Israel Arts Connection, a program of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland. General admission $12; CMA members, seniors 65 & over, and students $10; no passes or vouchers. Thanks to Debra Yasinow and Deborah Bobrow.
The Zen of Bennett
Friday, January 18
5:30 p.m. & 7:15 p.m.
Directed by Unjoo Moon. With Tony Bennett. Shortly before his 85th birthday, Tony Bennett is captured in the studio with other famous singers (Amy Winehouse, Andrea Bocelli, Lady Gaga, et al.) during the recording of his Grammy-winning 2011 album Duets II. Cleveland theatrical premiere. USA, 2012, color, video, 84 min.
Admission is $9; CMA members, seniors 65 & over, and students $7; or one CMA Film Series voucher. Vouchers, in books of ten, can be purchased at the Ticket Center for $70 (CMA members $60).
Orchestra of Exiles
Sunday, January 20
1:30 p.m.
Directed by Josh Aronson. With Itzhak Perlman, Zubin Mehta, Joshua Bell, et al. A sold-out hit at last fall’s Cleveland Jewish FilmFest, this new documentary chronicles how violinist Bronislaw Huberman saved some of Europe’s foremost musicians from the Nazis and founded an extraordinary orchestra in Palestine that would later become the Israeli Philharmonic. “Humane and inspiring.” –the Forward. Gartner Auditorium. USA/Israel, 2012, color/b&w, video, 84 min.
Admission is $9; CMA members, seniors 65 & over, and students $7; or one CMA Film Series voucher. Vouchers, in books of ten, can be purchased at the Ticket Center for $70 (CMA members $60).
Special Free MLK Day Screening!
Louder Than a Bomb
Monday, January 21
1:00 p.m.
Directed by Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel. Winner of the audience award for Best Film at the 2010 Cleveland International Film Festival, this inspiring and exhilarating documentary follows four Chicago high school poetry teams as they prepare to compete in the world’s largest youth slam. Admission free. Gartner Auditorium. USA, 2010, color, video, 99 min.
Somewhere Between
Wednesday, January 23
7:00 p.m.
Friday, January 25
7:00 p.m.
Directed by Linda Goldstein Knowlton. Four China-born teenage girls who were adopted by American parents and raised in the U.S. are profiled in this heartfelt documentary. "You'd have to be a stone not to be moved." –the Los Angeles Times. Cleveland premiere. USA, 2011, color, video, 88 min.
Admission is $9; CMA members, seniors 65 & over, and students $7; or one CMA Film Series voucher. Vouchers, in books of ten, can be purchased at the Ticket Center for $70 (CMA members $60).
Twelfth Night
Sunday, January 27
1:30 p.m.
Directed by Barry Avrich. With Brian Dennehy. Here’s a spirited film version of an acclaimed 2011 Stratford Shakespeare Festival production that added rock 'n' roll to the Bard's comedy of mistaken identity and misplaced love. Des McAnuff, who directed the stage version, described it as "Cirque du Soleil meets Shakespeare." Cleveland premiere. Canada, 2012, color, video, 153 min.
Admission is $9; CMA members, seniors 65 & over, and students $7; or one CMA Film Series voucher. Vouchers, in books of ten, can be purchased at the Ticket Center for $70 (CMA members $60).
Hellbound?
Wednesday, January 30
7:00 p.m.
Directed by Kevin Miller. Christians' contradictory concepts of hell and damnation—and what these beliefs reveal about those who hold them—are examined in this fascinating new movie about one of the scariest and most perplexing aspects of religious teaching. "Substantive and evenhanded." –the New York Times. Cleveland premiere. Canada, 2012, color, video, 84 min. USA, 1991-92, color, video, total 90 min.
Admission is $9; CMA members, seniors 65 & over, and students $7; or one CMA Film Series voucher. Vouchers, in books of ten, can be purchased at the Ticket Center for $70 (CMA members $60).
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