February 5 - August 28, 2016 - Matthew Schreiber’s immersive laser light exhibition Crossbow is named after a roller coaster in New Jersey. But that isn’t the artist’s only nod to popular culture. Reminiscent of optical devices found in novelty stores and 1970s sci-fi films, Schreiber’s environment reaches back to a not-so-distant past in which technology seemed to pro...

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February 5 - September 18, 2016 - This exhibition features works by many of the leading American painters of their day and captures the aspirations of the rising, upstart merchant city as it became the most populous and the most important port in the young country. In addition, the exhibition chronicles the changing nature of portraiture and artistic patronage, and ties together the lives of a gro...

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February 5 - June 30, 2016 -​ This exhibition features key work by 25 artists from around the world, presented as the final installment in the Sights and Sounds: Global Film and Video exhibition series. 

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February 6 - May 1, 2016 - In the first major American exhibition tour, Theo Jansen’s wholly distinctive kinetic creations blur the lines of art, engineering, science and performance. The exhibition celebrates the thrill of the Strandbeests’ locomotion and shows the processes that have driven their evolutionary development. The sculptures are accompanied by artist drawings, videos, dai...

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February 6 - July 10, 2016 - Intersections is an immersive single room installation that bathes the visitor in a geometric array of light and shadow. Inspired by traditional Islamic architectural motifs, Pakistani-American artist Anila Quayyum Agha's laser-cut steel lantern conjures the design of the Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain, a historic site of cross-cultural intersection where a thou...

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February 6 - May 24, 2016 - This exhibition opens with these awed-filled images, including the Cleveland debut of a stunning watercolor of the portal of the Temple of Edfu by John Frederick Lewis, a great master of Victorian English watercolor. Such depictions served as models for the first photographers to explore Egypt, who worked for governments, institutes, and archaeologists. Intense cur...

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February 6 - May 15, 2016 - The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe will present 300 years of fabulous footwear, revealing high heels as both stunning architectural creations and works of art in their own right. About 100 contemporary and 50 historical high heels will be on view. The exhibition includes six films created specifically for the show by noted artists, each exploring the cultural, social and ...

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February 6 - July 10, 2016 - This exhibition shows the prints on display in this room are a recent gift made to The Dorsky Museum by the family of Wendell J. and Karen Van Lare. Donated largely for purposes of student research and education, they are displayed in their new home for the first time. The prints’ depictions of life in Holland also hold special meaning for the village of New...

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February 6 - August 14, 2016 - This exhibition explores these difficult and lingering early life memories, fantasies, and nightmares in works that address issues such as loneliness, bullying, racism, poverty, violence, and war. Making reference to childhood, much of the art contains cartoons, dolls, toys, coloring books, the alphabet, school photographs, and TV shows. Drawn entirely from the Wadsw...

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February 6 - July 10, 2016 - This exhibition will feature the Dutch-born, New York-based artist's captivating "Transmission" works of the 1970s and 80s. Rear-mounted lights illuminate glass plates to project holographic images into space. The viewer steps into and away from the plates to interact with the ever-changing geometrical forms and organic textures, which reference electroni...

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