Cleveland Museum of Art’s revelatory “Stories from Storage’’ exhibit brings hidden gems into the light
Updated Feb 08, 2021;
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CLEVELAND, Ohio The Cleveland Museum of Art faced a curatorial nightmare last year when the coronavirus pandemic turned its precisely calibrated exhibition calendar from a Swiss watch into Swiss cheese.
Big shows on topics including 7th-century sculpture from Cambodia, and Pablo Picasso’s works on paper got postponed, punching holes in a timetable complicated further by temporary closures of the museum from March to June, and then again from November to this
January
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The museum first addressed its exhibition dilemma by extending the run of “Proof,’ a major show on contact sheets by famous modern and contemporary photographers.
Rarely seen artworks reveal untold stories in new exhibition
Two Female Heads, 16001650s. Abraham Bloemaert (Dutch, 15641651). Red chalk heightened with white chalk; framing lines in brown ink; sheet: 7.8 x 12.2 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Anne Elizabeth Wilson Memorial Fund, 1994.15.
CLEVELAND, OH
.- When the pandemic upended international travel in March 2020, temporarily delaying projects that had been in development for years, the Cleveland Museum of Art reimagined its schedule of exhibitions by drawing on its own resources. Stories from Storage offers a thoughtful and focused examination of multiple important themes through seldom-seen works of art carefully selected by each of the museums nearly two dozen curators. It conveys not a single, linear narrative but multiple stories that complement one another.