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Rose B. Simpson: Strata

A compelling story about the history and transformative legacy of Korean fashion. This exhibition presents approximately 30 works, ranging from excavated 17th-century aristocratic garments to contemporary Korean couture by leading and emerging designers, including André Kim; Lie Sang Bong; Lee Chung Chung, for LIE; Lee Jean Youn; and Shin Kyu Yong and Park Ji Sun, for Blindness.

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004 Special Exhibition Gallery

Korean Couture: Generations of Revolution

Journey into the Seven Jeweled Mountain, surrounded by vivid animation inspired by a 19th-century folding screen that illustrates the mountain’s striking scenery.

Final Week

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234 Textile Gallery

This exhibition presents photographs of the US-Mexico borderlands from the 1970s to the present taken by both border residents and outsiders. They range in subject matter from intimate domestic portraits, narratives of migration, and proof of political demonstrations to images of border crossings and clashes between migrants and the US border patrol.

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230 Photography

Picturing the Border

The CMA, famous for the quality and breadth of its collection, partners with the Jewish Museum, New York, and displays a group of Jewish ceremonial objects from the latter’s world-renowned collection of Jewish art. The pieces are shown in six permanent collection galleries, representing the diversity of Jewish cultures throughout the world and time.

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Jewish Ceremonial Art from the Jewish Museum, New York

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010 Focus Gallery

Demons, Ghosts, and Goblins in Chinese Art

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236 Korean

From Dreaming to Hiking: Korean Landscape Paintings

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232 Andean

Ancient Andean Textiles

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231 Native North American

Native North American Textiles and Works on Paper

This exhibition presents about a dozen works of calligraphy from the collections of the museum and a private collector, some on display for the first time.

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240A Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy

The Dancing Brush: Ming Dynasty Calligraphers and Eccentrics

Six paintings and 13 photographs illuminate contrasting approaches of depicting sacred Hindu sites. Indian artists, who created paintings for Indian viewers, emphasized the devotee’s intimate interaction with the divinity. Conspicuous are the offerings intended to please the living deity believed to reside in an object of worship, either in human or nonhuman form. 

242B Indian Painting

Temples and Worship in South Asia

This installation considers the bond of calligraphy and clay through contemporary artworks set in the modern space of the museum gallery.

235A Japanese

Contemporary Calligraphy and Clay

The objects in the exhibition span from the 800s to the 1500s, drawn from several collections in the Cleveland Museum of Art, including medieval art, Chinese art, Indian and Southeast Asian art, art of the Americas, and prints and drawings, offering possibilities of forging connections across cultures and geographies. 

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115 Manuscripts and Textiles

Creation, Birth, and Rebirth

108A Sub-Saharan

From the Earth through Her Hands: African Ceramics

Pulled from the CMA’s rich holdings of 18th-century European prints and drawings, this exhibition explores the complex relationship between imagination and the Enlightenment’s ideals of truth and knowledge. During this unprecedented time, artists used their imaginations in multifaceted ways to depict, understand, and critique the world around them.

101A–B Prints and Drawings

Imagination in the Age of Reason

Dragons, peonies, books, and scholarly accoutrements are among the most popular subjects that developed into decorative patterns in response to social and cultural changes during the 1700s and 1800s. By highlighting patterns and colors, this thematic presentation of painted screens and porcelain ware explores how Korean art vividly originated and offered powerful codes of communication.

Pattern and Decoration in Royal Art of the Joseon Dynasty

The monumental sculpture of Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan returns to the permanent collection galleries for the first time since its new reconstruction was completed in 2021. To complement this major addition, 13 stone and bronze works from India, Cambodia, and Indonesia are also brought out for display.

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243 Indian and Southeast Asian

244 Indian and Southeast Asian

Reinstallation of Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan

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Arts of the Maghreb: North African Textiles and Jewelry

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Picasso and Paper

Newly on display from the permanent collection are two Diné (Navajo) textiles from the late 1800s, as well as a watercolor from the 1930s made by Oqwa Pi, a member of the San Ildefonso Pueblo.

In Pictures for Charis, American photographer Kelli Connell reconsiders the relationship between writer Charis (pronounced CARE-iss) Wilson and photographer Edward Weston through a close examination of Wilson’s prose and Weston’s iconic photographs of the Western landscape and the female nude. This exhibition juxtaposes Connell’s photographs with classic figure studies and landscapes by Weston from 1934–45, one of his most productive periods and the span of his relationship with Wilson.

Kelli Connell: Pictures for Charis

The CMA is presenting Sikander’s art in relation to South Asian artworks from the museum’s collection that have inspired her. This exhibition offers a narrative that the CMA is uniquely suited to share: it carries forward in time the rich histories that are encompassed in the museum’s renowned South Asian collection. Simultaneously, it situates contemporary artistic practice in relation to the global history that precedes it.

Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior

In the century from 1500 to 1600, artists in India dramatically changed the styles in which they worked. Paintings from the Cleveland Museum of Art trace the transformations of their work from flat, abstract compositions to complex works of dynamic naturalism.

Indian Painting of the 1500s: Continuities and Transformations

Printmaking played a groundbreaking role at Cleveland’s Karamu House, one of the best-known sites for Black American culture. This exhibition brings together more than 50 prints created by Karamu Artists Inc.—including works by Elmer W. Brown, Hughie Lee-Smith, Charles L. Sallée Jr., and William E. Smith—a group that came together over a shared interest in the democratic possibilities of the graphic arts.

Karamu Artists Inc.: Printmaking, Race, and Community

In the late 1990s, a new generation of Chinese artists, many initially trained as painters, revolted against traditional academic definitions of photography. Building on the work done in the previous decades by Western artists, they dissolved the boundaries between photography, performance art, conceptual art, and installation. In so doing, they brought photography into the foreground in Chinese contemporary art. This exhibition presents works from the museum’s collection by eight key artists from that generation.

Refocusing Photography: China at the Millennium

Rose Iron Works: From Art Nouveau to Art Deco

In Vino Veritas (In Wine, Truth)

Filippino Lippi and Rome reconsiders the impact of the painter’s time in the Eternal City, juxtaposing Filippino’s Roman artworks with their Florentine precursors and successors. The exhibition places 20 paintings, drawings, and antiquities in direct conversation. For the first time, these related artworks will be brought together, and numerous paintings will be reunited with their studies.

Filippino Lippi and Rome

This exhibition juxtaposes past works with new creations, including some related to the museum and its collections. Explored in all this work is the relationship between touch, sight, and language. Hamilton’s interest in tactility recalls her origins as a textile artist. A central theme of her practice is the connection between feeling, understanding, and sensory experience, especially touch.

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Ann Hamilton: The Tactile Image