College of Arts and Sciences

Please join us for the annual Buchanan Lecture, presented this year by Dr. James Clifton and entitled "Chaos and the Limits of Representation."Dr. Clifton is the director of Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation and Curator of Renaissance and Baroque Painting at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The lecture will...

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HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Prof. Benay, whose third book, Italy by Way of India: Translating Art and Devotion in the Early Modern World has just been published! The research for this interdisciplinary, transcontinental study was supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Institute of Indian Studies....

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The new exhibition curated by Professor Henry Adams "Honoring Our Past Masters: The Golden Age of Cleveland Art, 1900–1945" has been recently reviewed on the Collective Arts Network website. According to CAN, the exhibition is "not to be missed." The exhibition runs at the Cleveland Historical Society, Western Reserve Historical Society...

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Graduate students in Prof. Gertsman’s and Dr. McCormick’s Mellon seminar explored images of the Pure Land through the close study of extraordinary CMA objects, including the Lotus Sutra handscroll (1970.64) and several hanging scrolls featuring the Amitabha Triad. A meditation exercise complete with the visualization of the Pure Land...

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Undergraduate and Graduate Students in Professor Erin Benay's Pressing Matters: Prints, Power, Revolution class print their own linocuts at the midtown nonprofit Zygote Press.  The class is working in partnership with Zygote Press and the CMA's new Community Arts Center to develop art-historically grounded, social-justice print projects for teens in the...

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Please join us for Dr. Philippe Cordez's lecture, "Music and Youth in the Kingdom of France: The Roman de Fauvel and the Cleveland Fountain (Paris, ca. 1320)," on Friday, March 18, at 5:30 PM. The lecture, co-sponsored by the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Department of Art History...

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The conference will take place at the Tinkham Veale University Center and the Cleveland Museum of Art from March 24th to 26th. This year, the two keynote lectures will be given by Elina Gertsman (CWRU) and Daniel Smail (Harvard University). We are also excited to announce that, in addition to the regular conference events, there will be opportunities to attend a medieval music...

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On April 13th, Herbert Kessler, Professor Emeritus of Art History at Johns Hopkins University, will deliver a lecture, “‘Decorated with Life’: Ornament’s Meaning During the Middle Ages and Beyond.” Professor Kessler is a prolific author and editor, whose work on medieval image theory has been a game-changer for the field. The lecture will take place at the Tinkham Veale University Center, in Ballroom A, at 5:30. Reception to follow!

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Where: Cleveland History Center When: Saturday, March 19, 2022, 1pm-3pm. Cleveland Arts Prize will celebrate the publication of the catalogue "The Golden Age of Cleveland Art" with a book-signing and giveaways of catalogues at the History Center of the Western Reserve Historical Society. The catalogue accompanies the exhibition "The Golden Age of...

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The Joint Program of the Case Western Reserve University Department of Art History and Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art is soliciting applications for a specially-funded Mellon graduate seminar course for the 2022-23 academic year. The course should be a cross-disciplinary, object-based seminar that prioritizes the CMA collection as primary course...

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