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THE REAL THING
Immersive Van Gogh might be cool but the Cleveland Museum of Art has a free installation with actual Van Goghs
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By Shawn Mishak
THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF
Art has a free, special installation of four Vincent Van Gogh works, including two masterpieces, now on display in the Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Gallery. While the Immersive Van Gogh exhibit, which has drawn mixed reviews so far, draws attention, the art museum saw an opportunity to remind folks that its offerings are both free and feature the actual work of the artist.
“With the public’s recent increased interest in Vincent van Gogh, we wanted to take this opportunity to showcase a selection of real masterworks by the artist,” said William M. Griswold, director of the CMA. “We look forward to welcoming our visitors to this free installation.”
The pieces on display in the museum include “The Large Plane Trees (Road Menders at SaintRémy), 1889;” “Two Poplars in the Alpilles near Saint-Rémy, 1889;” and “Landscape with Wheelbarrow,” an early watercolor piece by the artist and an etching of a homeopathic physician van Gogh was seeing.
From the CMA press release: “‘Dr. Gachet’ is the only etching the artist created. The artist placed himself under the care of Dr. Gachet in Auvers-sur-Oise, a small village on the northern outskirts of Paris, at the recommendation of fellow artist Camille Pissarro. The doctor was himself an amateur printmaker and gave Van Gogh a varnished copper plate, helping him to print it on his own small hand press. For his first attempt, Van Gogh depicted Gachet seated in his garden smoking a pipe.”
The installation is on view through Dec. 5.
Cleveland Public Theatre to Eliminate Standard Ticket Prices, All Tickets Now “Choose What You Pay”
Cleveland Public Theatre, Cleveland’s home for original and experimental theater in the Gordon Square Arts District, has expanded its Choose What You Pay ticketing program. All ticket prices for its upcoming season will be entirely at the discretion of patrons.
“CPT believes theatre is essential,” said CPT’s artistic director, Raymond Bobgan, in a statement. “Our typical Box Office only covers one fifth of the cost of a production, and if patrons paid for the value of the ticket, pricing would no longer represent what we also believe to be true: theatre must be economically accessible.
“We balance this belief with a fundamental assumption that art is of great value and we undertake our work at great cost. We believe in our audiences to choose what is best and appropriate. And we believe audiences are artists in their own way and great theatre needs great audiences. You are an essential part of the CPT experience. I can’t wait to be at the theatre with you.”
CPT says that it has offered Choose What You Pay tickets for the past 15 years, but these have only been available at the box office on the night of a performance. This year, all tickets — those purchased by phone, online or in person — will adhere to that format.
CPT kicked off its 2021-2022 season with its annual fundraising, Pandemonium, last weekend. The rest of the season can be viewed at CPT’s website. CPT is located at 6415 Detroit Ave.
Cleveland Museum of Art Announces Ticket Sales Details for Upcoming ‘Revealing Krishna’ Exhibit
The Cleveland Museum of Art just announced that members can now make reservations for the upcoming exhibit, Revealing Krishna: Journey to Cambodia’s Sacred Mountain.
The first-of-its-kind exhibition will feature two sculpture galleries and four digital galleries. It’ll also debut new restorations made to CMA’s 1,500-year-old stone sculpture of Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan.
The show will include an immersive timeline film narrated by Angelina Jolie and Loung Ung (author of First They Killed My Father) that “illuminates the effects of global change over the past 150 years on the discovery, disposition and conservation of the sculptures from one of the earliest major Hindu sites in Southeast Asia,” as it’s put in a press release.
Tickets to Revealing Krishna: Journey to Cambodia’s Sacred Mountain are on sale now.
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