The Cleveland Museum of Art's big new spring show on the collection of American Indian art donated by Eugene Victor Thaw to the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y., is deeply engrossing. Full story »

Eugene Victor Thaw is a rebel in an age in which art historians often care less about the quality of an artwork than what it might say about ethnicity, gender or power relationships.  Full story »

A photography show at the Cleveland Museum of Art juxtaposes sharply contrasting portrayals of American Indians by Edward S. Curtis and Zig Jackson.  Full story »

Cleveland has plenty of overlooked treasures like the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Public Square -- places that fully embody the architectural and artistic enthusiasms of the past, but are easy to pass by. Here's our guide. Full story »

Breakout shows are rare in Northeast Ohio, but the Gianna Commito exhibition at William Busta Gallery in Cleveland certainly qualifies. The show, filled with dazzling geometric abstractions in watercolor and casein on panels and paper, is the first solo outing in the region by the 33-year-old North Carolina native, who earned a master of fine arts degree at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, in 2003.  Full story »

After renting less-than-visible space for 20 years in the Cleveland Play House complex in Midtown, the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland is nearly ready to build a dramatic black-glass-and-steel building in University Circle.  Full story »

Cleveland owes at least part of its reputation as an arts Mecca to Patricia Doyle, who used her clout at the Cleveland Foundation in the 1970s and '80s to enrich the city's cultural life. Full story »

A rare, valuable and extremely heavy piece of Cleveland patrimony is on sale this week in New York during the Winter Antiques Show at the Park Avenue Armory on East 67th Street. The work in question is a seven-ton monumental vase carved in pink Tennessee marble by sculptor Paul Manship in 1916 for the Bratenahl estate of William Gwinn Mather, known as Gwinn.  Full story »

The special-exhibition program at the Cleveland Museum of Art has been sputtering since 2005, if not longer. Full story »

The art gallery at Cleveland State University may soon see the light of day. The university administration is negotiating to buy an early-20th-century office and loft building at 1901 East 13th St. owned by Middough Inc., an architecture, engineering and management company with offices in 17 U.S. cities including Chicago, Atlanta and Phoenix.  Full story »

Seunghye Sun, a rising scholar of Japanese and Korean art, will soon employ her cultural skills at the Cleveland Museum of Art, where she has been appointed curator of Japanese and Korean art.  Full story »

The Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown received a very handsome year-end gift from an unnamed Western Pennsylvania collector -- a small, beautiful painting by Jackson Pollock valued at $2 million. Full story »

The Cleveland Museum of Art has tapped Thomas W. Anderson, a former vice president for development at Case Western Reserve University, to serve as interim head of development.  Full story »

The Allen Memorial Art Museum is closing for renovations Dec. 24, which means there's only 10 more days to see one of the best college art collections in the country. After is closes, the allen will lend more than 20 masterpieces to a pair of high-profile East Coast institutions -- the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. Full story »

A work by Damien Hirst on loan to the Cleveland Museum of Art is visually stunning. Designed to resemble a trio of stained-glass windows from a Gothic cathedral, it almost seems to emit light. Full story »