Monday, September 17th, 2012
The Cleveland Botanical Garden in University Circle was a picture of pure, late-summer bliss Wednesday afternoon.
A couple walked hand-in-hand through the gathering shadows in the institution’s Rose Garden. An art student sketched a waterfall inside a simulated Costa Rican rain forest enclosed beneath a vast, crystalline glass enclosure. Butterflies...
Author: Steven Litt
http://blog.cleveland.com/architecture/2012/09/after_flirting_with_architectu.html
Saturday, September 08th, 2012
It’s payback time in the best sense this fall for Clevelanders who love the visual arts.
All the money raised and spent by the Cleveland Museum of Art over the past decade is finally bringing the institution close to the way it will appear when its $350 million expansion and...
Author: Steven Litt
http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2012/09/fall_art_season_in_cleveland_i.html
Saturday, September 01st, 2012
In a way that’s palpable but hard to measure, Cleveland just became a better place to live, thanks to the completion of the new central atrium at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
This grand interior space — nearly as big as a football field — was...
Author: Steven Litt
http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2012/09/cleveland_museum_of_art_atrium.html
Monday, August 27th, 2012
The long detour through the basement to galleries at the Cleveland Museum of Art is finally over.
When the museum opens at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, it will also quietly open its new central atrium, a vast, skylighted space that will function as the heart of the institution and as...
Author: Steven Litt
http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2012/08/cleveland_museum_of_art_opens.html
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012
The much-beloved Armor Court at the Cleveland Museum of Art was in its second decade in the 1930s when a young Morton Mandel visited for the first time on a school trip.
He was electrified by the shields, broadswords, tapestries and battle armor on view — and savors the memory....
Author: Steven Litt
http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2012/08/mandel_foundation_donates_75_m.html
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