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CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland Museum of Art announced Tuesday that timed tickets for a major fall exhibition, “Revealing Krishna: Journey to Cambodia’s Sacred Mountain,’’ will be made available Tuesday for members, and for non-members on Monday, Sept. 20.The museum said in a news release that it recommends reserving tickets by visiting the “Revealing Krishna’' webpage on its website, by calling 216-421-7350, or by ...

CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Museum of Art was recently featured by an art critic in the New York Times in an article titled "Finding a Globe’s Worth of Art Treasures Close to Home."The art citric, Jason Farago, said before the coronavirus pandemic, he would think nothing of jetting to East Asia or South Africa for a single exhibition or performance, neglecting art institutions that ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — When it chooses topics for exhibitions, the Cleveland Museum of Art spreads its attention around the globe, from Europe and the Middle East to Asia, Africa, and Latin America. At the moment, however, it’s in a New York state of mind.Earlier this year, it displayed a selection from Bruce Davidson’s poignant “Brooklyn Gang’' photos that documented the lives of rebellious white ...

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It’s hard to believe, but former President Donald Trump is now a self-appointed protector of America’s heritage and an enemy of crazy ideas.Trump, you see, is going to bat for the doomed Cleveland Indians. He regards the big-league club as a victim of politically correct zealots.“Can anybody believe that the Cleveland Indians, a storied and cherished baseball franchise since taking the name in 1915, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — It’s OK to forgive yourself for reminiscing about the 1957 Broadway musical, “West Side Story,’' inside the visceral, poignant, deeply engaging exhibition “Brooklyn Gang’' at the Cleveland Museum of Art.The comparison is irresistible, even if it’s not entirely apt.The show, which focuses on 50 photos from a famous 1959 documentary series by Bruce Davidson, chronicles the nihilism, boredom, and aimlessness of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland Museum of Art’s once annual May Show remains the sine qua non of local art exhibitions, at least for Northeast Ohio art lovers of a certain age.Inaugurated in 1919 to nurture the city’s fledgling art scene, the exhibition provided a regular burst of attention for local artists within the august confines of the museum.Artists submitted large numbers of artworks ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Big-time art world success came late for Cleveland painter Michelangelo Lovelace, and it was very sweet when it did. But he scarcely had time to savor it before his life was cut short last month by an illness.One of the city’s most important artists of the past 35 years, and one of its leading African-American artists, Lovelace died April 26 at ...

Michelangelo Lovelace Sr., a Cleveland-based artist who created poignant paintings and drawings often focused on issues of injustice in America, has died at age 60. A representative for Lovelace’s gallery, Fort Gansevoort, said that he died after a long illness. The subjects of Lovelace’s works, which the artist created over the course of 40 years, range from everyday city life to poverty, war, immigration, and ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A typical art education program for teens at a major American art museum might result in an exhibition of student work displayed in an out-of-the-way hallway.As for curating an actual exhibition in a highly visible gallery, few, if any museums would turn over the keys to a bunch of high school students.But that’s exactly what the Cleveland Museum of Art did ...