CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

University Circle Art Museum News & Reviews

The temple will continue to use its richly historic building for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services and other events, and as part of the plan, CWRU will not have to build an arts center of its own.  Full story »

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 »

Much of the joy - and whimsy - at Sunday's opening of the renovated Gartner Auditorium at the Cleveland Museum of Art emanated from guests who were making their first trip to Cleveland - Max Raabe and the Palast Orchester.  Full story »

A symposium today on how the arts can help Alzheimer's disease patients kicks off a new working relationship between two venerable institutions: the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cleveland Clinic. Full story »

The rich sights in the Cleveland Museum of Art weren't the only glories that began heading into hibernation or exile in 2005. Music took a hike, too. As part of the museum's $350 million expansion and renovation, Gartner Auditorium went into a deep slumber in mid-2005 to prepare for architectural and acoustical transformation. But now, the finishing touches are being applied to the Gartner for its gala reopening next Sunday after a $6.1 million renovation.  Full story »

Paul Scarbrough was part of the team that improved the acoustics at Severance Hall during a major expansion and renovation. Scarbrough moved down the street in 2007 to design the sound at Mixon Hall, the Cleveland Institute of Music's resplendent new recital hall. And now Scarbrough has crossed East Boulevard to put the fine points on the acoustics in the revitalized Gartner Auditorium at the Cleveland Museum of Art  Full story »

The Cleveland Museum of Art's auditorium was never a comfy place. Designed by the great 20th-century modernist architect Marcel Breuer as part of his 1971 Education Wing, it had a certain austere grandeur but also felt cavernous.  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 »

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 »

If your taste runs to cliffhangers, 2009 was the perfect year for you in Cleveland, especially in art and architecture and urban planning. 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 »

Encouraged by a rebounding endowment and favorable construction prices, trustees of the Cleveland Museum of Art voted unanimously on Monday to embark on the second major phase of a $350 million expansion and renovation.  Full story »