General Fact Sheet

NAME The Museum of Art

HOURS Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays. Extended hours Wednesday and Friday evenings until 9 p.m. Closed Mondays, Jan.1, July 4, Thanksgiving Day and Dec. 25.

ADMISSION Admission to the permanent collection is always free. Some major exhibitions have admission fees.

COLLECTIONS The is renowned for the quality and breadth of its collection, which includes more than 45,000 objects and spans 6,000 years of achievement in the arts.

Particularly notable are the museum’s comprehensive Asian art collection, its collections of , medieval European art and pre-Columbian holdings. The museum’s collection includes masterpieces by , , Poussin, Rubens, Hals, David, Goya, Turner, Dalí, Matisse, Renoir, Gauguin, Church, Cole, Corot, Eakins, Monet, van Gogh, Picasso and Bellows, in addition to important works by later 20th-century artists including Tanguy, Neel, Pollock, Bourgeois, Warhol, Oldenburg, Martin, Kosuth, Spero, LeWitt, Puryear and Gober among others. Additional strengths include decorative arts, with seminal works by such masters as Faberge and Tiffany, as well as impressive holdings of 18th-century French art. The prints and drawings holdings, which represent half the museum’s collection, contain works by Durer, Michelangelo, Raphael, Rembrandt and Picasso.

The museum’s Ingalls Library is the third-largest art research library in the , with 472,650 volumes. The library is open to the public. The hours are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Wednesday, during the academic year, 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Closed Mondays.

SIZE The museum employs a staff of approximately 400 professionals. With the completion of the building project in 2013, the museum is approximately 592,500 square feet in size, which includes 35,300 square feet of new gallery space created through the expansion. DIRECTOR In May 2014, the Cleveland Museum of Art’s board of trustees unanimously appointed Dr. William Griswold as the 10th director of the museum.

CURATORIAL DEPARTMENTS ; American Painting and Sculpture; Ancient Art; Art of the Americas; ; Contemporary Art; Decorative Art and Design; European Painting and Sculpture (1500-1800); Modern European Painting and Sculpture; Indian and Southeast Asian Art; Japanese and Korean Art; Medieval Art; Photography; Prints and Drawings; Textiles and Islamic Art

ACQUISITIONS Approximately 300 works of art are acquired per year. The Cleveland Museum of Art’s acquisition funds are among the largest of American art .

GALLERY ONE In January 2013, the museum opened a unique, interactive gallery that blends art, technology and interpretation to inspire visitors to explore the museum’s renowned collections. This revolutionary space features the largest multi-touch screen in the United States, which displays images of over 3,500 objects from the museum’s world-renowned permanent collection. The 40-foot Collection Wall allows visitors to shape their own tours of the museum and to discover the full breadth of the collections on view throughout the museum’s galleries.

In concert with the opening of Gallery One, the museum has also created ArtLens, a multi-dimensional app for iPads. Utilizing image recognition software, visitors can scan two-dimensional objects in Gallery One and throughout the museum’s galleries to access multimedia content, including audio tour segments, videos and additional contextual information. Visitors may bring in their own iPad or rent one for $5.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS Cleveland Art (monthly members magazine); British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art (2013); The Caporali Missal: A Masterpiece of Renaissance Illumination (2013); Director’s Choice: The Cleveland Museum of Art (2012); Picasso and the Mysteries of Life: (2012); Wari: Lords of the Ancient Andes (2012); The Art of Daily Life: Portable Objects from Southeast Africa (2011); The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art (2011); Midwest Modern: The Color Woodcuts of Mabel Hewit (2010); : Paris, 1889 (2009); What’s American About American Art (2008); Art and Power in the Central African Savanna: Luba, Songye, Chokwe, Luluwa (2008); Artistic Luxury: Fabergé, Tiffany, Lalique (2008); Monet to Dalí: Impressionist and Modern Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art (2007); Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art (2007).

Exhibition booklets (24 to 32 pages, plus covers) for the Contemporary Art Installation Series (Martin Creed [2012] and Fred Wilson exhibitions [2012]); DIY: Photographers and Books (2012); Studio Glass in Focus: Dialogue and Innovation (2012).

VISITORS In 2013, the museum welcomed nearly 600,000 visitors.

PROGRAMS Historically, the museum has showcased between 13 and 17 special exhibitions per year, staging temporary exhibitions that draw from its permanent collection as well as showcasing international loan shows.

Annual community arts festivals include summer’s Parade the Circle, the autumn Chalk Festival and a Winter Lights Lantern Festival.

The museum is committed to public arts education and hosts many educational events throughout the year, including family days, school tours, intergenerational studio arts classes and the distance learning and Art to Go programs. Additional educational events include the Dr. John and Helen Collis Lecture, a free annual lecture devoted to ancient and Byzantine Greek art and numerous free lectures and talks sponsored by the six museum affiliate groups (Contemporary Art Society, Friends of African and African American Art, Friends of Photography, The Painting and Drawing Society, Print Club of Cleveland and Textile Art Alliance and The Musart Society.)

Tours, studios, other programs— and out-of-state (served 109,589 individuals 2011-12); Art to Go and Art Cart programming—Ohio (served 5,024 students and adults 2011-12); Distance Learning—Ohio and out-of-state (served 22,253 students and adults 2011-12).

Music at the Cleveland Museum of Art has a history nearly as long as the institution itself, and the initial program has grown into an extensive performing arts season that includes international music, dance and theatre artists. In addition, the institution plays host to a year-round film program that is one of the oldest of any museum in the United States. Approximately 90 films are screened annually.

DINING Provenance is a 76-seat fine dining restaurant and lounge that features locally sourced and globally inspired cuisine and a prix fixe menu that complements current museum exhibitions. Brunch is available Sundays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Lunch is available Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dinner service is available Wednesday and Friday from 5 to 9 p.m. Reservations for brunch, lunch, and dinner can be made by calling (216) 707- 2600 during business hours or online.

Provenance Café offers lunch, dinner, and snack options with an open kitchen concept where patrons can watch as chefs create their dishes. Open Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Wednesday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.

The museum’s dining concept is a partnership between the museum, Bon Appétit Management Company and Chef Partner Douglas Katz.

LOCATION 11150 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106 (Between Euclid Avenue and Wade Oval in , approximately five miles east of ) Information Telephone: 888-CMA-0033 Email Address: [email protected] Website: www.ClevelandArt.org Additionally, follow the museum on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

FOUNDING Incorporated in 1913; built 1913-1916; opened 1916. Additions opened in 1958, 1971, 1984 and 2013.

MISSION STATEMENT The mission of the Cleveland Museum of Art is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern Ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions.

The museum, established in 1913 "for the benefit of all the people forever," seeks to bring the pleasure and meaning of art to the broadest possible audience in accordance with the highest aesthetic, intellectual and professional standards.

Toward this end the museum augments, preserves, exhibits and fosters understanding of the outstanding collections of world art it holds in trust for the public and presents complementary exhibitions and programs.

The Cleveland Museum of Art embraces its leadership role in collecting, scholarship, education and community service. (1996)

GOVERNANCE R. Steven Kestner, Chairman of Board of Trustees; 80-member Board of Trustees, including 29 Standing Trustees, 12 Life Trustees, 14 Trustees Emeriti, 2 Ex Officio Trustees and 23 Honorary Trustees.

FUNDING The Cleveland Museum of Art is privately funded through endowments, gifts and grants. The museum also receives public grants toward special exhibitions from national endowments and federal indemnifications. The Cleveland Museum of Art is generously funded by the citizens of Cuyahoga County through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. The Ohio Arts Council helps fund the museum with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.

MEDIA CONTACT August Napoli, 216-707-2154 or [email protected] # # #