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Cleveland Museum of Art
CMA or the Cleveland Museum of
Art is located in University Circle in Cleveland, Ohio that contains
a permanent collection of over 43,000 artworks. Admission is free,
except for special exhibits and events. In 2008, the museum reopened
19 of their permanent galleries that were housed in the historic
1916 building, which had just gone through an extensive restoration
that needed to close the galleries in 2005. In 2009, a new East Wing
was built, that is home to the contemporary, modern and
impressionist artworks, that includes the famous blue period of
Picasso's work, La Vie. The museum is separated into 15 divisions
that contain contemporary art, Chinese art, photography, modern
European art, Art of the Ancient Americas, prints, Oceania, African
art, drawings, decorative art and design, European sculpture and
paintings, medieval art, textiles and Islamic art and Greek and
Roman art. Some of the masters that are included in the works are;
van Gogh, Caravaggio, Renoir, El Greco, Picasso, Rubens, Monet,
Poussin, Corot, Frans Hals, Church, Gerard David, Cole, Goya, J. M.
W. Turner, Bellows, Dali, Matisse and Gaugin. From the works of the
20th century artists are; LeWitt, Warhol, Close, Pollock, Mangold,
Christo, Tansey, Richter, Kossoff, Kiefer and Clemente. The
museum hosts a number of special events, lectures, excellent
exhibitions, musical and film programs and their department of
performing arts, music and film host the Panorama Film Series and
the VIVA! and the Gala Around Town concert series that bring the
creative juices of international artists of great fame to the city.
The department of education makes programs for continuous lifelong
learning from talks, studio classes and lectures that are outreach
and community events like the Parade the Circle, Winter Lights
Lantern Festival, Chalk Festival, Circle of Masks and more. Their
marvelous distance learning programs include the Educator's Academy
and Art to Go, which allow internet visitors to indulge themselves
in great art programs that they might not have otherwise been able
to achieve. The museum's Ingalls Library is considered to be one of
the biggest art museum libraries in the nation containing 431,000
volumes. There are three extraordinary works housed in the
collection; the Thinker by Rodin from 1902, which had been partially
destroyed by the Weathermen in 1970, the Crucifixion of Saint Andrew
by Caravaggio from 1607 and the Battle of the Nudes by Antonio del
Pollaiuolo from the late 15th century. The museum is in the
process of growing much larger, which began in 2005, and is slated
to be finished by 2012. At a cost of almost $10 million, the museum
will be enlarged by 200,000 square feet, with more gallery space and
enhanced visitor amenities. This includes more restrooms, more
parking spaces, a bigger cafe and store, and a magnificent glass
covered courtyard. The new museum will include two buildings that
are architectural landmarks and one is quite historical. The 1916
Beaux arts building and the 1971 building by Marcel Breuer.
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