We are delighted to announce that the exhibition on Creation and (Re)Birth in the Global Middle Ages just opened at the Cleveland Museum of Art. This ambitious show pulls together objects from several museum collections–including medieval art, Chinese art, Indian and Southeast Asian art, art of the Americas, and prints and drawings–to explore some of the fundamental moments in the sacred narratives of the medieval world: the creation of the universe, the birth of its gods and its humans, and visions of the end of life conceived as a new beginning. The exhibition, co-curated by Professor Elina Gertsman and Dr. Gerhard Lutz, is a culmination of several years of collaboration between the medieval art program at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art, made possible by the support of the Mellon Foundation. Its final form was developed in the Mellon collections seminar co-taught by the two curators last fall. Graduate students in the seminar wrote wall text and object labels, and several contributed to the gallery booklet, available to museum visitors at the exhibition. For more on the show, featured already in Cleveland Art Events and This is Cleveland, please see here.