Toledo Museum of Art | January–April 2014

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ARtmaTTERS
Toledo Museum of Art | January–April 2014
What’s Inside
2014 Board Officers
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Happenings
Director’s Letter........................3
On the Cover.............................3
In Brief.......................................4
TMA by the Numbers..............8
Event Calendars
January....................................14
February..................................16
March......................................18
April.........................................20
Exhibitions
Fragonard...............................9
Tuileries Garden.....................10
Upcoming Exhibitions ............13
People
Halona Westbrook................22
Varujan Boghosian................23
GAPP Artists..........................24
Posy Huebner.........................25
David K. Welles Jr., Chair
George L. Chapman, Vice Chair
Sara Jane DeHoff, Vice Chair
Mary Ellen Pisanelli, Vice Chair
Cynthia B. Thompson, Vice Chair
Dennis G. Johnson, Secretary
John S. Szuch, Treasurer
Brian Kennedy,
President, Director and CEO
Carol Bintz, Chief Operating Officer
2014 Directors
Michael J. Anderson
Allan Block
Elizabeth Brady
George L. Chapman
Charles E. Dana
Sara Jane DeHoff
James A. Hoffman
Lloyd Jacobs
Billie Johnson
Dennis G. Johnson
George M. Jones, III
Harley J. Kripke
Susan Kruse
Randy Oostra
Mary Ellen Pisanelli
Jeanne Rudski
Stephanie Streeter
John S. Szuch
Stephen D. Taylor
Cynthia B. Thompson
Scott Trumbull
David K. Welles Jr.
ArTMAtters Staff: Editor: Kelly
Fritz Garrow | Writer: Alia Orra |
Graphic Designer: Lisa Reyerse |
Contributors: TMA Staff | Contributing
Photography: Richard Goodbody,
Andrew Weber, Richard Putney,
Robert Wagner, Jason Cavaliere.
Comments can be directed to
[email protected].
Museum Store
Parisian-Inspired Must-Haves
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Happenings
From the Director
On the Cover
Sitting down for dinner with Henri Loyrette,
the former director of the Louvre, in his
Parisian home was spectacular—especially
considering the Louvre’s director occupies
an apartment atop the museum itself.
The reason for our meeting was to discuss
bringing the magic of the Louvre’s adjoining
garden, the Tuileries, to America. The
Tuileries Garden was designed by the
master landscape architect, André Le
Nôtre (1613–1700). Later, walking along the
garden’s dusty gravel pathways that have
become such an iconic representation of
the city, we observed the more than 400
years of art and history that have come to define the Tuileries, as a great urban green
space in the heart of the French capital.
The Art of the Louvre’s Tuileries Garden has been organized with the Louvre by the
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the Portland Art Museum, Oregon, and the Toledo
Museum of Art. Our collaboration has resulted in a spectacular exhibition of sculpture,
photography, painting, and architectural models that debuts February 13. Toledo is
this international exhibition’s only Midwestern stop, presented in part by our gracious
sponsors, The Andersons, Brooks Insurance, and Taylor Cadillac. And it is one of
many exceptional moments at TMA this season.
We have also launched the online presence for our visual literacy initiative, VisLit.org.
The ability to derive meaning from everything that we see has become an essential
critical thinking skill in these image-saturated times. Think of VisLit.org as an important
resource to enhance your own art-viewing skills, and also to improve your capacity to
teach it to others. We will add to it constantly.
The website is the first of many components for this initiative. In November 2014, The
Art of Seeing: From Ordinary to Extraordinary will be the theme of the 47th Annual
Conference of the International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA). The conference will
be held at the Museum, where hundreds of educators, researchers, artists, and media
specialists will convene to share their research and insight into this vital subject.
I look forward to this opportunity to share one of the region’s most outstanding visual
literacy resources—our Museum—with these visitors. But I am especially pleased at
the chance to share it with you, our members—the people who make all of these
wonderful opportunities possible.
Pathways normally filled by swarms
of visitors rest, undisturbed, in
the unusual silence. A male figure
carved from stone stands in waiting.
How many have peered up at him
across the centuries? One imagines
the natives of Paris and the city’s
millions of visitors, from 19th-century
characters in their bustles and top
hats to those of the 20th century in
jogging shoes, strolling this path,
noting his imposing presence. The
ghostly image captured through
Jaroslav Poncar’s lens tells us in an
instant what has been true for 400
years about this magical place, the
Tuileries Garden: it has stood the test
of time.
The subject is an unusual one for
Poncar, a fine art photographer
with a Ph.D. in theoretical physics.
Among the places he frequently
documents—Nepal, Afghanistan,
Cambodia, Bhutan, and Mali—the
Tuileries Garden becomes exotic in its
own right. Contrary to the romance
that nature offers in Poncar’s other
photographs, the Tuileries intrigues
with its own charms, born of the
human attempt to impose structure
on the natural world.
Jaroslav Poncar (Czech, born 1945),
The Tuileries Garden (Le jardin des
Tuileries) (detail). Gelatin silver print,
1985. 3 ½ x 14 inches. Musée
Carnavalet-Histoire de Paris, Ph 1916.
© Jaroslav Poncar.
Brian P. Kennedy
Director
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Happenings
ToddlerTime Tours Debut
Starting in February, toddlers will get the chance to experience
Docent-led gallery tours designed specifically for them. ToddlerTime
Tours, a collaboration between the Museum and the Toledo-Lucas
County Public Library, will serve as a sequel to the popular Baby
Tours and provide tykes a two-part, multi-sensory experience with
works of art. First, parents and their children ages 18 to 36 months
can attend a Library storytime themed to connect with a Museum
painting; the next week, they’ll get to see it during a hands-on tour at
the Museum, engaging with interactive learning materials (like fabrics
and wooden blocks) that help bring the work to life. A children’s
librarian will be on hand for an in-gallery story experience to complete
the tour. Pre-registration is required, but parents can choose to
attend one or both programs. The Museum’s ToddlerTime Tours are
free and debut Thursday, February 13 at 3 p.m. For more info on
participating branches and dates, visit toledomuseum.org/learn.
Visual Literacy Website Goes Live
The average person is inundated with images each day via smart phones, tablets, and computers—on Facebook alone, 300
million new photos are added by users daily. How do people in a constant state of looking learn to hone their sense of sight?
That’s the aim of the Toledo Museum of Art’s visual literacy initiative and its recently-launched website, VisLit.org. The site serves
as a hub of resources for educators and members of the general public seeking to teach, or learn, how to construct meaning
from all that we see. Study guides and lesson plans are available for kindergarten through middle school teachers and students,
as well as video lectures and other features. The site is just one of the ways the Museum is working to educate the public on this
important method for understanding the world, using art as the starting point; from November 5 through 8, 2014, TMA will host
the annual International Visual Literacy Association Conference.
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Internet Accolades for
Museum Café
The Toledo Museum of Art Café edged
out 615 other restaurants in Toledo for a
number one ranking on the travel review
site TripAdvisor.com, earning a 2013
Certificate of Excellence from the site.
(The site also ranks the Museum itself
as the number one attraction in the city.)
This “critical darling” status has a whole
new meaning for Toledo Museum of Art
Café Chef Drew Ruiz, since it comes from
visitors (perhaps the toughest food critics)
from across the country. “The significance
for me as a chef today is either you do it
right or hang up your apron,” Mr. Ruiz said.
“Because everybody has a really loud voice
now. That’s power. I respect that power!”
The Art of Video Games
Comes to TMA June 2014
There is perhaps no more interactive image than an image you control. According
to Chris Melissinos, it’s what sets video games apart. “[We’re] invited by the artist
to inject our own morality, our own worldview, our own experiences into the game
as we play it,” he has said. “There is no other medium that affords the world
this incredible opportunity.” Mr. Melissinos curated The Art of Video Games, an
exhibition exploring the history of the home console, from Atari to PlayStation 3, and
the game imagery connected to each one. The show debuted at the Smithsonian
American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. and will make its way to the Toledo
Museum of Art in June 2014. According to TMA Associate Director Amy Gilman, the
exhibition is “a great generational moment, with parents teaching their kids how to
play Pac-Man and kids teaching their parents how to play CGI games.”
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (detail), Shigeru Miyamoto, executive producer; Eiji Aonuma, director; Satoru
Takizawa, art director; Eiji Aonuma, Satoru Iwata, producers, Nintendo Wii, 2006, Nintendo of America, Inc.
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Happenings
Venturing to Southeast
Asia
This year will bring a Southeast Asian moment
to the Toledo Museum of Art: its Apollo Society
has selected India and the surrounding region
as the focus of its art collecting for 2014. Since
1986, The Apollo Society donor group has
contributed more than $5 million to acquire
some 46 works of art, ranging from Chuck
Close’s Alex to Vilhelm Hammershøi’s Interior
of Courtyard, Strandgade 30. This year, they’re
collaborating with Chief Curator Carolyn Putney,
who specializes in Asian art, on the new
selections. To learn more about Apollo Society
membership, contact Todd Ahrens, director of
development, at 419-255-8000 ext. 7421.
India, Narasimha. Sandstone, about 1200. Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment,
Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey, 1987.176
Docent Class Now
Enrolling
For Deanna Harwell, the most surprising thing about
becoming a Docent wasn’t the (practically) free art history
education, or the altruistic feelings of volunteering. “When
I came to be a docent, I had a pretty full, complete life,”
Ms. Harwell said. “But I have a whole new circle of friends
and I never thought I would be so enriched.” The Museum
is now enrolling the next class of Docents; participants
need to be TMA members willing to commit to 18 months
of part-time training on the collection, touring techniques,
and even brain science, with summers off. Graduated
Docents become an integral part of the Museum’s inner
circle, working to educate visitors on art and develop their
visual literacy skills. Free informational sessions take place
January 16 at noon and January 17 at 6 p.m. For more
details, contact Paula Brown-Gray, docent coordinator, at
[email protected] or 419-255-8000 ext. 7514.
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Visual Literacy Named Top Trend for 2014
“Do you speak visual?” was named one of the top 10 trends to anticipate in 2014 by leading marketing
communications think-tank JWT Intelligence. The New York-based group’s annual report, which examines shifts
in the zeitgeist to find potential trends that will impact the world, is led by Ann Mack (sister of the Toledo Museum
of Art’s glass artist Jeff Mack), who visited the Museum in October, where she learned about TMA’s visual literacy
efforts. Museum Director Brian Kennedy was cited as a source in the study’s explanation of visual literacy’s role
in an image-saturated age when “show” has become more significant then “tell.” The Museum’s efforts to engage
audiences in learning this important critical thinking skill were noted as a “thing to watch” for companies and
individuals alike. “Across industries and disciplines, brand communicators will have to master how to express
themselves visually and how to read and interpret images—and understand the nuances across cultures,
generations, demographics and communications platforms,” according to the report. “Not to mention keep up
with the constantly evolving nature of it all.” To learn more about the trend report, visit www.jwtintelligence.com.
Art in Bloom Launches in May
Florists’ modus operandi is usually bouquet first, vase second. But
come May, they’ll embark on a new creative challenge when they
are paired with TMA glassblowers for the Museum’s Art in Bloom
event. The florist/glass artist teams will collaborate creatively on
vessels and arrangements, from the classic to the abstract, which
will be displayed throughout the Glass Pavilion. The four-day event,
organized by the TMA Ambassadors, kicks off May 8 with a gala in
the Glass Pavilion and includes tours of arrangements inspired by
works of art in the Museum, a talk by garden expert and Southern
Living editor-at-large James Farmer, and a Mother’s Day Brunch. “In
this case, the container is part of the art form, if not more significant
than the flowers,” said Keith Brooks, a participating florist. “That’s
what makes this neat.” For more information, visit toledomuseum.
org/events and watch the next issue of ArTMAtters for full details.
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Happenings
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doctor for art,
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It’s like being a
TMA by the Numbers | Conservation
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It’s like being a
doctor for art,
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doctor for art,
Number of conservators
working in the Museum
Hands off!
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Suzanne Hargrove, Jeff Boyer, and Marissa Stevenson
30,000
Objects in the
Museum’s collection
Conservation labs
Types of conservation
Textiles
Wooden Artifacts
Photographs
Objects
Painting
Books
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Decorative Arts
Lather up
Architecture
Orvus W A Paste is the soap of choice for cleaning sculpture,
ceramics and glass—as well as 4-H animals at the fair!
45 to 55 percent relative humidity
65 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit
Temperatures must be kept within these ranges in the Museum’s galleries,
to prevent drying in the winter or excessive moisture in the summer.
Some works of art are meant to
be touched!
Mark di Suvero’s Blubber, in the Georgia & David K.
Welles Sculpture Garden, was created to encourage
human interaction. Though you can’t touch the steel
I-beams, you can climb on the tire!
Polar Bear Bench by Judy McKie
Pair of Parallelogram Chairs by Scott Burton
While some aren’t!
Stegosaurus by Alexander Calder
Scalpel, please ...
A conservator’s necessities include medical and dental tools, like scalpels, picks,
scrapers, burnishers, eyedroppers, dental molding, and high-powered microscopes.
Records are kept on each artwork, similar to a physician’s patient files—a detailed
“art repair” history of each work.
Aging and the sun
Like skin, paintings age with exposure to UV light. A film is contained within
the glass walls and skylights of the Museum to filter damaging UV rays.
A conservator’s secret weapon? Toothpicks. The tiny sticks are used for
everything from cleaning to transferring pigment.
Depending on the project, 3,000 cotton swabs might be used to clean and restore
frames and objects.
Average time it takes to dust one gallery: 1 hour using a HEPA Vac and oxtail
brushes
Piece by piece
It took more than 50 hours to restore the 18-piece set of armor that appeared in
Fresh Impressions: Early Modern Japanese Prints, using needle and thread, tissue
paper, twill tape, fabric, resin, and gamblin paint.
Snug as a bug?
Conservators are responsible for collecting and examining the different pests that
could be harmful to the collection. 200-plus spiders, beetles and other insects
are reported each year.
The ones that find art tastiest? Silverfish and moths.
Another factor—fly specks (a.k.a. fly droppings) can damage paintings.
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Acids and oils in skin can transfer to artwork and cause damage—think of what your
iPad looks like after you’ve touched it.
Sculpture
Temperature
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4,800 gloves are used per year by TMA’s conservators.
Electronic Media
Paper
It’s like being a
doctor for art,
1 glove = 100
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says Jeff Boyer, Toledo Museum of Art conservation technician. The conservation team is
devoted to protecting, maintaining and restoring works of art in the Museum’s collection. Below, a
breakdown of what it takes to get the job done.
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Exhibitions
Fragonard
Masterpieces to be
Reunited in Toledo
They were painted in Paris in the first years of the 1750s. Likely
commissioned by one Baron Baillet de Saint-Julien, they
subsequently passed through the hands of private 18th-century
collectors, a Parisian comte, and a Rothschild. When they came
onto the open market in 1954, they were finally separated from
each other.
“They” are two of Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s most renowned
paintings, Blind-Man’s Buff, one of the gems of the Toledo
Museum of Art, and The See-Saw, a highlight of the ThyssenBornemisza Museum, Madrid. These sumptuous and engaging
companion pieces, reunited in temporary exhibitions held in
London in 1968 and both Paris and New York in 1987–88, will
be put on public view together in Toledo for the first time in Love
and Play: A Pair of Paintings by Fragonard. The exhibition, in
Gallery 28 beginning January 24, is courtesy of the generosity
of TMA’s Spanish colleagues.
Fragonard (1732–1806), with Watteau, Chardin, and Boucher—
all admirably represented in the Museum’s holdings—was one
of the premier artists of the Rococo era of 18th-century French
painting. Born in Grasse in the South of France, Fragonard
came to Paris with his family as a young boy. Following an initial
apprenticeship with Chardin, he entered the studio of François
Boucher whose art—both its subject matter and its style—
would be of great influence on the younger artist. Blind-Man’s
Buff and The See-Saw epitomize Fragonard’s romantic pastoral
themes executed with his characteristic fluid and effortless
handling of paint. Both compositions are symbolic, rural idylls
of great movement and sensuality, captured in powder blue,
lemon yellow, and rose colors.
In addition to the two paintings, this one-room focus exhibition
also includes engravings by Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet after the
two paintings, Clodion’s delightfully provocative terracotta The
See-Saw, as well as a small selection of French decorative arts
of the period.
Love and Play: A Pair of Paintings by Fragonard—Toledo
Museum of Art and Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid,
Works Reunited will be on view through May 4, 2014.
Top: Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732-1806), Blind-Man’s Buff. Oil on canvas, about
1750-55. Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond
Libbey, 1954.43
Bottom: Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732-1806), The See-Saw. Oil on canvas, about
1750–1755. Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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Exhibitions
The Art of the Louvre’s
Tuileries
Garden
February 13–May 11, 2014
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or Dick Putney, the Tuileries Garden has always been a
theater for Parisian life.
Its actors number in the millions—joggers, photographers,
tourists, lovers. Spectators sit on garden chairs near
fountains or under the shade of trees, watching life go by
in the French capital’s largest public space. But Professor
Putney, a curator and University of Toledo art historian,
is just as fascinated with the garden’s past as he is its
present.
“What makes it interesting is the layer of ghosts,” Dr.
Putney said. “You think, here’s someone walking down this
path that Marie Antoinette once walked. I like that melding
together of the then and now.”
The Tuileries Garden is the subject of the Toledo Museum
of Art’s major spring exhibition, The Art of the Louvre’s
Tuileries Garden, which Dr. Putney helped curate in a
partnership between the High Museum of Art in Atlanta
and the Portland Art Museum in Oregon, with the special
collaboration of the Musée du Louvre.
When the exhibition makes its debut in the Canaday Gallery
on February 13, it will be a chance to explore a slice of
the garden’s storied history, and its charms. The layers of
the human experience inform its grounds: class, society,
violence, politics, power, art, pomp, and celebration have
all played a role in their development. “If you know the
Louvre and you know the Tuileries, you know the history of
Paris,” Dr. Putney said. “It’s the most important space in
the city, I think.”
Unlike New York City’s Central Park, the Tuileries Garden
began as a roaming ground for royalty. In the 1560s,
Queen Catherine de Medici was an Italian widow left to
navigate the political intrigues of her deceased husband’s
French court. Viewed as an outsider, she nonetheless
used her authority to build a new palace near the Louvre
complete with a garden in the style of her native Florence.
The land used for this new project was the site of tile
factories, known as tuileries in French, hence the name for
the garden, which became the site where she entertained
(and negotiated with) European nobility.
The Tuileries saw many French kings and queens stroll
its grounds, their various gardeners embellishing and
Jaroslav Poncar (Czech, born 1945) The Tuileries Garden (Le jardin des Tuileries) (detail). Gelatin silver print, 3 1/2 x 14 inches, 1985. Musée Carnavalet-Histoire de Paris, Ph 1916 © Jaroslav Poncar
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Photos by Richard Putney
Exhibitions
expanding on its design. But perhaps the most influential came
100 years after the garden’s inception in the form of landscape
architect André Le Nôtre. The grandson of Pierre Le Nôtre, one
of Catherine de Medici’s gardeners, he was commissioned by
King Louis XIV in 1664 to take on the maintenance and design
of the Tuileries.
The garden was something of a playground for Le Nôtre, as
he had grown up on its grounds. He reconsidered its design,
introducing huge open spaces “which were absolutely alien
to Paris,” according to Dr. Putney, and implementing a long
organizing axis that would eventually guide the path of the
Champs-Élysées. Though he also designed the gardens at
Vaux-le-Vicomte, a French château, and those at the magnificent
palace of Versailles, he remained partial to the Tuileries all his
life, residing there and maintaining management duties.
The Tuileries’ royal associations were as notorious as they were
glamorous—King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and Napoleon
Bonaparte all resided there at different times—and in 1871 the
palace was gutted by fire in an uprising. Though the burned
and desolate structure was demolished in 1883 by the French
government, its adjoining garden endured. It became the
recreation area of choice for French citizenry in the 19th and
20th centuries, and an inspiration to artists. Édouard Manet
painted Parisians socializing among the greenery, which was
punctuated with sculptures depicting Greco-Roman myths.
The new art was part of a definitive turning point away from the
styles that decorated the Tuileries up until then, according to
Dr. Putney.
art was really born.” The Tuileries was also a subject of works
by Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, considered a father
figure to many notable Impressionist and Post-Impressionist
painters, including Paul Cézanne and Vincent van Gogh.
With the birth of photography, the Tuileries experienced further
documentation. Brassaï in the 1930s discovered the eerie
magic of its identity at night, while in the 1960s and ’70s, Henri
Cartier-Bresson captured its role as the scenery for leisurely
Parisian days.
The Tuileries Garden, now integrated with the courtyard of the
Louvre and featuring more than 100 sculptures and three art
galleries, remains the largest urban green space in the heart of
Paris, receiving 10 million visitors per year. This special exhibition
at TMA will provide a rare opportunity to experience a small part
of this monumental French landmark, according to Dr. Putney,
one that has seen centuries of history in the heart of Paris.
“It was a place of spectacle and display,” says Dr. Putney. “Now
it’s a place for contemporary life, and art. Bringing a small piece
of it to life at TMA will be an incredible experience.”
The exhibition is organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta,
the Portland Art Museum, Oregon, and the Toledo Museum of
Art, with the special collaboration of the Musée du Louvre.
The Art of the Louvre’s Tuileries Garden is presented in part by
“Manet liked to observe contemporary life, and that was the
revolution,” Dr. Putney said. “Contemporary life became as
important a subject as myths from the past. It’s when modern
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Upcoming Exhibitions
Love and Play: A Pair of Paintings by Fragonard
January 24 – May 4 | Gallery 28
Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s playfully sensual companion paintings, the Toledo Museum of Art’s Blind-Man’s
Buff and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid’s The See-Saw, are reunited for the first time in 25 years.
This one-room focus exhibition also includes engravings and a small selection of French decorative arts of
the 18th century. Free admission. Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732–1806), Blind-Man’s Buff (detail). Oil on canvas, about 1750–55.
Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey, 1954.43
The Art of the Louvre’s Tuileries Garden
February 13 – May 11 | Canaday Gallery
More than 100 paintings, sculptures, photographs, and drawings—many never before exhibited outside
Paris—will explore the art and design of the garden. This special exhibition is co-organized by the High
Museum of Art, Atlanta, the Portland Art Museum, Oregon, and TMA, with the exceptional collaboration
of the Louvre. Admission for Museum members is free; $8.50 adults, $6.50 students/seniors for nonmembers.
Antoine Coysevox (French, 1640–1720), Hamadryade (detail). Marble, 1710, 70 7/8 x 31 1/8 x 29 1/2 inches. Musée du Louvre, Paris, MR 1819 Photo: ©
RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY
Paper Roses: Garden-Inspired Works on Paper
February 21 – May 18 | Works on Paper Gallery
Paper Roses looks at human interaction with nature, landscape, and garden design. Assembled entirely from
the Museum’s own collection, the show presents more than 100 prints, drawings, books, and photographs
by some of the most acclaimed European and American artists from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Paper
Roses complements the major international exhibition The Art of the Louvre’s Tuileries Garden. Free admission.
Ansel Adams (American, 1902–1984), Dogwood, Yosemite Valley (detail). Gelatin-silver print, 1971. Purchased with funds given by an anonymous
donor, 1971.170
In Fine Feather: Birds, Art & Science
April 25 – July 6 | Gallery 18
Coinciding with Northwest Ohio’s splendid Biggest Week in American Birding, In Fine Feather highlights the
intersection of natural science and art in describing and identifying birds, from a medieval treatise on falconry
to John James Audubon’s Birds of America to the modern field guide. Free admission. John James Audubon (American,
1785–1851), The Passenger Pigeon (detail). Etching, aquatint, 1829. Museum Purchase, 1921.112
Community Gallery
The Community Gallery is sponsored by
Naturally Toledo
January 24 – April 25 | Community Gallery
Inspired by TMA’s major international exhibition, The Art of the Louvre’s Tuileries Garden, the Community Gallery will be transformed
into a sensory experience with two-dimensional and three-dimensional works celebrating the natural beauty of the Toledo region.
Free admission.
Art Reach
January 24 – April 25 | Community Gallery
ArtReach provides an artistic outlet to populations in our community who are facing challenges. ArtReach workshop participants will
create art with a nature theme, including ripped paper landscapes. Those works will be featured alongside student creations from Art
After School, a program that keeps children in our local neighborhoods engaged in art after their school day ends. Free admission.
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Glassblowing 1, 2 & 3 P.M.
Origami & Daruma Dolls!
10 A.M.–3 P.M.
Art Hours: Icicles 6 P.M. $
Origami & Daruma Dolls!
10 A.M.–3 P.M.
Art Hours: Icicles
6, 7 & 8 P.M. $
It’s Friday Music: The Matt
Chambers Jazz Syndicate
6:30–8:30 P.M.
Ebb & Flow Exhibition 7 P.M.
Netsuke Collection 8 P.M.
Art Hours: Icicles 12 & 4 P.M. $
Meet Me at TMA: Dragon Hunt
1 P.M.
Impressionism! Noon–5 P.M.
Glassblowing 1 & 2 P.M.
Collection Highlights 2 P.M.
Minds on Art Gallery Games
2–4 P.M.
Family Time Tour 3 P.M.
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Impressionism! 10 A.M.–3 P.M.
A Brush With Art: Chinese Art
1 P.M.
Impressionism! 3:30–8 P.M.
Wine by the Glass Pavilion:
Sparkling Wines 6:30–8:30
P.M. $
Collection Connection:
Rembrandt to … 7 P.M.
Monday—Museum Closed
Impressionism! 10 A.M.–3 P.M.
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Found Object Sculptures!
10 A.M.–3 P.M.
Glassblowing 2 P.M.
Glassblowing 2 P.M.
10 A.M.–3 P.M.
Art à la Carte 7 & 7:30 P.M.
Drawing in the Galleries: Beer
& Bread 7 & 8 P.M.
Tag Team Discussion: Beer +
Bread 7:30 P.M.
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Art Tells a Story! 10 A.M.–3 P.M.
Glassblowing 2 P.M.
Glassblowing 2 P.M.
Art Tells a Story! 10 A.M.–3 P.M.
Art Tells a Story! 3:30–8 P.M.
South of the Border Vineyards
6:30–8:30 P.M. $
Art Hours: Icicles 6, 7 &
8 P.M. $
Presentation: Imag(in)ing God
7:30 P.M.
Art Hours: Icicles 12 &
4 P.M. $
Overlapping Texures &
Patterns! Noon–5 P.M.
Collection Connections:
Gentileschi to … 2 P.M.
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Overlapping Textures &
Patterns! 10 A.M.–3 P.M.
Glassblowing 2 P.M.
Glassblowing 2 P.M.
Overlapping Textures &
Patterns! 10 A.M.–3 P.M.
Visiting Artist: Hannah
Lehmann 6–7 P.M.
Wine by the Glass Pavilion
6:30–8:30 P.M. $
Art Hours: Icicles 6, 7 & 8 P.M. $
Hals to … 7 P.M.
Presentation: Varujan Boghosian
& Brian Kennedy 7:30 P.M.
Art Demonstrations
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3:30–8 P.M.
Baby Tour 3:30 P.M.
6:30–8:30 P.M. $
Guest Artist Presentation:
Jason Chakravarty 7–9 P.M.
The Art of Seeing Art 7 P.M.
Collection Connections 8 P.M.
TSO Classics Concert: Waltzing
Through Vienna 8 P.M.
Public Tours
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Rembrandt to … 2 P.M.
Great Performances in the
Great Gallery: Soprano Denise
Ritter Bernardini & pianist
Michael Boyd 3 P.M.
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Guest Artist Glassblowing
Demo: Jason Chakravarty 1,
2 & 3 P.M.
TSO Classics Concert:
Waltzing Through Vienna
8 P.M.
Art Tells a Story! Noon–5 P.M.
Guest Artist Glassblowing
Demo: Jason Chakravarty
1, 2 & 3 P.M.
Rubens to … 2 P.M.
January Highlights
FREE Presentation: Imag(in)ing God: The Image of Christ in Late
Antiquity
January 24: 7:30 p.m. | Little Theater
Jesus Christ has long been imagined as having lengthy, centrally-parted locks
and a beard. But how did this likeness of Christ emerge? Toledo Museum of
Art Mellon Fellow and ancient art expert Adam Levine, Ph.D., will talk about
the evolution of Christ’s image in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium and
introduce some of the problems with the ‘evidence’ that Christ looked as we
think he does. Dr. Levine will review the variant types of Christ images that
circulated in Late Antiquity—there were five—as well as their prototypes, and
demonstrate that the image becomes mostly standardized around the time
of Byzantine Iconoclasm. Along the way, he will also discuss how we discern
that such divergent representations depict Christ. According to Dr. Levine, “It
is not trivial that we can know an image of a beardless youth with curly hair is
meant to show Christ.” Co-sponsored by AIA-Toledo Society.
Ancient Rome, probably made in Rome, Fragment of a shallow bowl: Christ giving the law to Sts. Peter and Paul. Colorless
glass; blown, gold leaf, Mid- to late 4th century CE. Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward
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FREE It’s Friday Music: The Matt Chambers
Jazz Syndicate
January 3: 6:30–8:30 p.m. | Cloister
Hear the jazz tunes of performers Steve Wood, Mike Whitty,
and Zac Kreuz during It’s Friday, and enjoy special drink
offerings at the cash bar.
FREE Great Performances in the Great Gallery
January 12: 3 p.m. | Great Gallery
University of Toledo assistant professor of voice and soprano
Denise Ritter Bernardini has performed on such vaunted
stages as Carnegie Hall and received awards from the
Metropolitan Opera and the National Federation of Music
Clubs. Bernardini will be accompanied by Michael Boyd, a
pianist and University of Toledo lecturer who was recently
named a Steinway Artist.
FREE TMA Third Thursday: Beer + Bread
January 16
Start the weekend early with TMA Third Thursdays, a midmonth pick-me-up filled with art, drinks, and lively discussion.
In this month’s edition, enjoy a theme of Beer + Bread
inspired by a Tag Team Discussion on the finer points of each
by a local beer distributor and Museum Chef Drew Ruiz.
Art à la Carte | 7 & 7:30 p.m.
Drawing in the Galleries: Beer + Bread | 7 & 8 p.m.
Glassblowing Demos | 7 & 8 p.m.
Tag Team Discussion: Beer + Bread | 7:30 p.m.
Beer and Wine in Libbey Court | 6:30–9 p.m. $
FREE Presentation: GAPP Artist Jason
Chakravarty
January 17: 7 p.m. | GlasSalon
“Glass can be anything: thick, thin, shiny, dull, rough,
smooth, transparent, or opaque,” according to mixed media
artist and Guest Artist Pavilion Project (GAPP) resident
Jason Chakravarty. For Mr. Chakravarty, it can also be a
medium for exploring human contact, or lack thereof, within
relationships now transformed by social networking. Mr.
Chakravarty has taught neon and kiln casting workshops
nationwide, and has had his work shown in more than
100 exhibitions. After his talk, he’ll conduct a live, public
demonstration at 8 p.m.
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Stereoscopic Viewer!
10 A.M.–3 P.M.
Glassblowing 2 P.M.
Glassblowing 2 P.M.
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10 A.M.–3 P.M.
Art Hours: Hearts 6 P.M. $
Love, Lust and Scandal
Flashlight Tour 9 P.M. $
Art Hours: Hearts 12 & 4 P.M. $
TSO Classics Concert:
Amadeus 8 P.M.
Printmaking! Noon–5 P.M.
Collection Connection: Monet
to … 2 P.M.
Great Performance in the Great
Gallery: African-American
History Month concert 3 P.M.
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Printmaking! 10 A.M. –3 P.M.
Glassblowing 2 P.M.
Glassblowing 2 P.M.
Printmaking! 10 A.M.–3 P.M.
ToddlerTime Tour 3 P.M.
Printmaking! 3:30–8 P.M.
Art Hours: Hearts 6, 7 & 8
P.M. $
Baby Tour 6 P.M.
6:30–8:30 P.M. $
Fragonard in the Garden 7 P.M.
Tuileries Exhibition 8 P.M. $
Love, Lust & Scandal Flashlight
Tour 9 P.M. $
Art Hours: Hearts 12 & 4
Mini Sculpture Garden!
Noon–5 P.M.
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10 A.M.–3 P.M.
Glassblowing 2 P.M.
Glassblowing 2 P.M.
Art Book Club Discussion: The
Fountain of St. James Court,
or, Portrait of the Artist as an
Old Woman 5:30–7 P.M.
10 A.M.–3 P.M.
Drawing in the Galleries: Love
is in the Air 7 & 8 P.M.
Tag Team Discussion: Love +
Lust 7:30 P.M.
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Collage! 10 A.M.–3 P.M.
Glassblowing 2 P.M.
Glassblowing 2 P.M.
Collage! 10 A.M.–3 P.M.
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3:30–8 P.M.
Art Book Club: Guided Tour
5:30 P.M.
Art Hours: Hearts 6, 7 & 8 P.M. $
Wines of France
6:30–8:30 P.M. $
Tuileries Exhibition 7 P.M.
Presentation: What is the Tuileries
Garden? 7:30 P.M.
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Collage! 3:30–8 P.M.
Visiting Artist: Dani Herrera
6–7 P.M.
Art Hours: Hearts 6, 7 & 8 P.M. $
6:30–8:30 P.M. $
The Andes’ Oldest Brewery
7:30 P.M.
TSO Classics Concert: The
Brahms Project 8 P.M.
Public Tours
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Noon–5 P.M.
Collection Connections: Hals to
… 2 P.M.
2–4 P.M.
3:30–8 P.M.
Art Hours: Hearts 6, 7 &
8 P.M. $
It’s Friday Music: Dean Tartaglia
6:30–8:30 P.M.
Gallery Talk: Love & Play: A Pair
of Paintings by Fragonard 7 P.M.
TSO Classics Concert: Amadeus
8 P.M.
Love, Lust & Scandal Flashlight
Tour 9 P.M. $
Art Demonstrations
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Meet Me at TMA: Music Paints
a Picture 1 P.M.
P.M. $
Tuileries Exhibition 2 P.M.
Opening: The Art of the
Louvre’s Tuileries Garden
7–10 P.M.
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Art Hours: Hearts 12 &
4 P.M. $
TSO Concert: Paul Jacobs,
Organist In Recital 8 P.M.
Collage! Noon–5 P.M.
February Highlights
FREE It’s Friday Music: Dean Tartaglia
February 7: 6:30–8:30 p.m. | GlasSalon
Dean Tartaglia, one half of local band Silent Lions,
describes the two-piece outfit as “chill punk/spooky
soul,” a fitting description for their atmospheric music.
Catch the up-and-comer in this It’s Friday performance
and enjoy drinks at the cash bar.
February 9: 3 p.m. | Great Gallery
Celebrate African-American History Month with a rousing
concert.
The Art of the Louvre’s Tuileries Garden Opening
Masquerade Ball
February 15: 7–10 p.m. | Main Museum
Music, dancing, food and mask-making entertain revelers
during a ball fit for Marie Antoinette. Free for members, $25
for nonmembers and $10 for nonmembers ages 6–12.
FREE TMA Third Thursday: Love + Lust
February 20
Explore the themes of Love + Lust during TMA’s early kickoff to the weekend.
Drawing in the Galleries: Love is in the Air | 7 & 8 p.m.
Tag Team Discussion: Love + Lust | 7:30 p.m.
FREE Presentation: What is the Tuileries Garden?
February 21: 7:30 p.m. | Little Theater
The Tuileries Garden, the Parisian Central Park, serves as a
backdrop for the city’s activities, from the mundane (joggers
getting their daily exercise) to the fabulous (Fashion Week
runway shows). Art historian Richard Putney, a frequent
Tuileries visitor and co-curator of The Art of the Louvre’s
Tuileries Garden, will discuss the origins of this magical
public park which inspired TMA’s major spring exhibition.
FREE Presentation: The Andes’ Oldest Brewery
February 28: 7:30 p.m. | Little Theater
Fifteen hundred years ago, while Europe was entering the
so-called Dark Ages, the Wari empire began its expansion
across the Andes. On their southern frontier, they built
a citadel high on a mountain pinnacle that served as an
embassy and provincial capital. What were they doing
there? Brewing massive quantities of beer, according to
speaker Ryan Williams, who excavated the Andes’ oldest
imperial brewery on the summit of the mountain-top city.
The associate curator of archaeological science and South
American anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural
History in Chicago, Dr. Williams will discuss the role of
feasting and brewing in the politics of the first Andean empire
as illustrated through the excavations at Cerro Baul, Peru.
Co-sponsored by AIA-Toledo Society.
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Art Hours: Shamrocks 12 &
4 P.M. $
Meet Me at TMA: Ancient
Greek & Roman Mythology
1 P.M.
TSO Classics Concert: The
Brahms Project 8 P.M.
Community Garden!
Noon–5 P.M.
2–4 P.M.
Art Hours: Shamrocks
3 & 4 P.M. $
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Community Garden!
10 A.M.–3 P.M.
Glassblowing 2 P.M.
Glassblowing 2 P.M.
Community Garden!
10 A.M.–3 P.M.
Art Hours: Shamrocks 6 P.M. $
Community Garden!
3:30–8 P.M.
Art Hours: Shamrocks 6, 7 &
8 P.M. $
It’s Friday Music: Extra Stout
6:30–8:30 P.M.
Presentation: Elite Women in
Ancient Egypt 7:30 P.M.
4 P.M. $
Myths & Legends! Noon–5 P.M.
3 & 4 P.M. $
Great Gallery: The Tuileries
Garden Au Coeur de Paris
3 P.M.
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Myths & Legends!
10 A.M.–3 P.M.
Glassblowing 2 P.M.
Glassblowing 2 P.M.
Myths & Legends!
10 A.M.–3 P.M.
Masters Series: Dr. Eric Haskell
6 P.M.
A Brush With Art: Paper Roses
Exhibition 1 P.M.
Baby Tour 3:30 P.M.
Myths & Legends! 3:30–8 P.M.
8 P.M. $
Gardens 8 P.M.
4 P.M. $
Architectural Wonders!
Noon–5 P.M.
3 & 4 P.M. $
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Glassblowing 2 P.M.
Glassblowing 2 P.M.
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How Does Your Garden Grow?
10 A.M.–3 P.M.
Guest Artist Demo: Lino
Tagliapietra $
Art Demonstrations
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8 P.M. $
Paper Roses Exhibition 7 P.M.
Presentation: A Day in the Life of
the Tuileries Garden 7:30 P.M.
TSO Classics Concert: Verdi’s
Requiem 8 P.M.
4 P.M. $
TSO Classics Concert: Verdi’s
Requiem 8 P.M.
Noon–5 P.M.
3 & 4 P.M. $
Great Gallery: BGSU Chamber
Music Competition winners
3 P.M.
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10 A.M.–3 P.M.
Tagliapietra $
Coffee Tastings
6:30–8:30 P.M. $
3:30–8 P.M.
Visiting Artist: Jefferson Nelson
6–7 P.M.
Tagliapietra $
Tagliapietra 10–Noon
Film: Noor Khan: An Unsung
Hero of WWII 2 P.M.
3 & 4 P.M. $
Great Gallery: BGSU Chamber
Orchestra 3 P.M.
10 A.M.–3 P.M.
Coffee Tastings 6:30–8:30 P.M. $
Drawing in the Galleries
7 & 8 P.M.
Tag Team Discussion: Gardens +
Games 7:30 P.M.
Public Tours
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March Highlights
FREE Masters Series Presentation:
The Art of André Le Nôtre: Gardening
for Grandeur in 17th-Century France
March 13: 6 p.m. | Peristyle
On the 17th of August 1661, Nicolas Fouquet, Louis XIV’s minister of finances,
invited the who’s who of France to visit his new country estate southwest of
Paris for what was to be one of the grandest of soirées in French history. His
château was seconded only by the cutting-edge, formal gardens by André
Le Nôtre, whose notions of Cartesian logic and axial perfection would soon
become central to the “jardin à la Française.” This illustrated lecture will focus
on that evening’s significance and illuminate the period’s aesthetics. Presented
by Eric Haskell, professor of French and Clark Humanities Museum director at
Scripps College. Sponsored in part by TMA Ambassadors and Country Garden
Club, Member, Garden Club of America.
Carlo Maratti (Italian 1625–1713), André Le Nôtre. Oil on Canvas, 1678
FREE Great Performances in the Great Gallery:
The Tuileries Garden au Coeur de Paris
FREE GAPP Artist Demo: Lino Tagliapietra
March 9: 3 p.m. | Great Gallery
Enjoy an afternoon in the Tuileries Garden with the songs
of Fauré, Debussy, and Brell. Soprano Joan Layne is
accompanied by pianist Kevin Bylsma and narrator Susan
Palmer as they bring the heart of Paris to life with the
Masterworks Chorale and the Ballet Theatre of Toledo.
March 29: 10 a.m.–Noon | GlasSalon
Italian master glassblower Lino Tagliapietra has spent his
70-year career creating magnificent glass works, raising the
international standards of glass craftsmanship in the process.
As a participant in the Guest Artist Pavilion Project (GAPP),
Mr. Tagliapietra will offer the rare opportunity to view him at
work in the Hot Shop.
FREE TMA Third Thursday: Gardens + Games
FREE Film: Noor Khan: An Unsung Hero of WWII
March 20
During this month’s early kick-off to the weekend, get playful with
the theme Gardens + Games, a fitting match for the season’s
major exhibition The Art of the Louvre’s Tuileries Garden.
Drawing in the Galleries | 7 & 8 p.m.
Tag Team Discussion: Gardens + Games | 7:30 p.m.
Coffee Tastings
March 20 & 27: 6:30–8:30 p.m. | GlasSalon
Former glass artists Ralph and Gini Behrendt bring an
artistic sensibility to their artisanal coffee roasting business,
Flying Rhino Coffee & Chocolate Company. During these
two tasting sessions, the Behrendts will discuss the nuances
and details of coffee, offered with sweet and savory food
pairings. $20 members, $30 nonmembers, plus tax.
March 30: 2 p.m. | Peristyle
This docu-drama tells the inspiring true story of Noor Khan,
the daughter of a famous Sufi teacher from Indian nobility
and an American mother. She grew up in Paris guided by
her father’s philosophy of respect for different faiths, even
as nationalism and ethnic chauvinism was on the rise
across Europe. A delicate, thoughtful girl, she studied child
psychology and became an author of children’s books. But
her life in France soon came to an end. Forced to flee her
Paris home when the Germans invaded, Khan became an
unlikely hero, volunteering to return as a secret agent to
assist the French Resistance. Though she was eventually
captured and executed by Nazi forces, her bravery in the
face of destruction led to a posthumous award of the British
George Cross. (60 min.)
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Family Center Installation
Piece! 10 A.M.–3 P.M.
Glassblowing 2 P.M.
Glassblowing 2 P.M.
Piece! 10 A.M.–3 P.M.
Art Hours: Springtime Eggs
6 P.M. $
Piece! 3:30–8 P.M.
Art Hours: Springtime Eggs 6,
7 & 8 P.M. $
It’s Friday Music: The
Antivillians 6:30–8:30 P.M.
Paper Roses Exhibition 7 P.M.
12 P.M. $
Meet Me at TMA: Jewish Art
1 P.M.
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Symmetry & Balance!
10 A.M.–3 P.M.
Glassblowing 2 P.M.
Glassblowing 2 P.M.
Art Book Club
5:30–7 P.M.
Symmetry & Balance!
10 A.M.–3 P.M.
6 P.M. $
Symmetry & Balance! 3:30–8
12 & 4 P.M. $
TSO Classics Concert: Carnival
of the Animals 8 P.M.
Take One, Leave One!
Noon–5 P.M.
Great Gallery: Cellist Damon
Coleman & pianist Michael
Boyd 3 P.M.
3 & 4 P.M. $
P.M.
Art Book Club 5:30 P.M.
6, 7 & 8 P.M. $
Presentation: The Long Shadow
of André Le Nôtre 7:30 P.M.
TSO Classics Concert: Carnival
of the Animals 8 P.M.
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Symmetry & Balance! Noon–5
P.M.
2–4 P.M.
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10 A.M.–3 P.M.
Glassblowing 2 P.M.
Glassblowing 2 P.M.
10 A.M.–3 P.M.
6 P.M. $
Drawing in the Galleries
7 & 8 P.M.
Tag Team Discussion: Birds +
Bees 7:30 P.M.
10 A.M.–3 P.M.
6, 7 & 8 P.M. $
Baby Tour 6 P.M.
12 & 4 P.M. $
Clay Creations! Noon–5 P.M.
3 & 4 P.M. $
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Clay Creations! 10 A.M.–3 P.M.
Glassblowing 2 P.M.
Glassblowing 2 P.M.
Clay Creations! 10 A.M.–3 P.M.
6 P.M. $
Clay Creations! 3:30–8 P.M.
Visiting Artist: Julia Labay
6–7 P.M.
6, 7 & 8 P.M. $
12 & 4 P.M. $
In Fine Feather! Noon–5 P.M.
Presentation: Decoding the
Astronomical Narrative in the
Codex Borgia 3 P.M.
3 & 4 P.M. $
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In Fine Feather! Noon–5 P.M.
Glassblowing 2 P.M.
Glassblowing 2 P.M.
Art Demonstrations
Public Tours
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FREE Presentation: Decoding the Astronomical
Narrative in the Codex Borgia
April 27: 3 p.m. | Little Theater
The Codex Borgia, one of the great masterpieces of ancient
Mexico, contains a unique narrative section that has been studied
for more than a century. Using modern computer simulations of
astronomical events, Susan Milbrath, curator of Latin American
art and archeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, has
proposed a definitive reading of the narrative. The colorful images
displayed over an 18-page sequence link the cycle of ceremonies
of the Central Mexican calendar to specific astronomical
observations, including Venus events and lunar cycles, and the
only total eclipse of the sun witnessed in Central Mexico during
the Late Postclassic period (1325–1520). Co-sponsored by AIAToledo Society.
Page 71 of the Codex Borgia, Pre-Columbian
FREE It’s Friday Music: The Antivillians
April 4: 6:30–8:30 p.m. | Cloister
The trio formed by Sarah and Ben Cohen and Sam
Woldenberg, which splits time between Toledo and Brooklyn,
has earned a following for their first full-length album So
Much For Romance. “The dapper Antivillains make a lovely
sound—a mellow, sweeping take on pop and old-time jazz,”
one reviewer wrote in Time Out New York. “If there’s any
justice, the songs from their album, So Much For Romance,
will find radio airplay.” Cash bar.
FREE Presentation: The Long Shadow of André Le
Nôtre
April 11: 7:30 p.m. | Little Theater
Renowned American landscape architect Laurie Olin has
designed everything from private residences to large public
parks in New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., as
well as TMA’s own Georgia and David K. Welles Sculpture
Garden. In his talk, Mr. Olin examines André Le Nôtre’s work
and its influence, particularly in America, demonstrating how
various notable ‘modernists’ have responded to it. Most
recently Mr. Olin was awarded the 2012 National Medal of
Arts bestowed by President Obama, as well as the 2013
Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture.
April 13: 3 p.m. | Great Gallery
Toledo Symphony Orchestra cellist Damon Coleman and
pianist Michael Boyd.
FREE TMA Third Thursday: Birds + Bees
April 17
Enjoy an early kick-off to the weekend with spirits, noshes
and one of the world’s finest art collections. In this edition
of TMA Third Thursday, explore the Birds + Bees.
Drawing in the Galleries | 7 & 8 p.m.
Tag Team Discussion: Birds + Bees | 7:30 p.m.
In 1991, Mr. Olin transformed New York’s Bryant Park from a haven for criminals into one of the
city’s most gracious public spaces by dramatically increasing visibility in all directions.
Image courtesy OLIN
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People
TMA Staff Profile
Halona Norton-Westbrook
Halona Norton-Westbrook, a San Francisco Bay Area native, arrived at the Toledo Museum of Art after a six-year stint in England,
where her Ph.D. studies focused on the evolution of museum collecting in the 20th century. The accomplished speaker (she gave
regular lectures at the University of Cambridge) is TMA’s newest Mellon Fellow.
Why the Toledo Museum of Art?
First of all, the really dynamic leadership group that’s here
at this moment in time. The other part of it is obviously
the Museum’s fantastic collection. It’s second to none
anywhere, essentially. And also the history of this particular
institution is very fascinating and worth exploring in further
depth, and I want to be a part of that.
What are you hoping to bring to
TMA?
I have a deep love and passion for works
of art and their stewardship, and the role
that art can play in bringing a great deal
of joy into people’s lives. I’m passionate
about museums, too, and how they have
developed and the lessons we can learn
from how they’ve grown and changed.
I think that also speaks to what I can
bring to this position, in terms of having
this very one-of-a-kind knowledge base
by studying art history and also studying
theory and arrangement of art museums,
and I can bring the best of both worlds to a
leadership position.
What was it like being an
American living in London?
I loved it. You learn so much about each place by
just studying the similarities and the differences. I
think British museums are more and more taking
their cues from American museums, in terms of
fundraising and how you do publicity. There’s a
wonderful balance, just like in the States, of big, grand
museums like the National Gallery and small, intimate,
private museums. My favorite museum in London is the
Soane Museum. It was the home of an 18th-century
architect, Sir John Soane (1753–1837), and it’s filled
with architectural artifacts that he collected. And it’s
free, like TMA is free, which is wonderful.
What era are you most interested
in, artistically?
I definitely feel a pull towards late 19th- into early
20th-century art.
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What was it about that time period?
In terms of era, it’s broad. My favorite artist I would
definitely say is Georgia O’Keeffe, but I also feel
drawn to British and American artists of the late 19th
century through the mid 20th century, in general. It’s
really that period of time—the way that ideas about
art and aesthetics were evolving then. Not just
the art that was produced, but also the art
that was being collected.
Why has O’Keeffe’s work
really grabbed you?
I have a great interest in artists who
start as a young person, usually even a
child or teenager, and keep going over
the course of their life, as O’Keeffe did.
There’s a lot more depth to her work
than is realized. When I interned at the
O’Keeffe Museum, I helped catalogue
her oil paint brushes and her oil paints
and pastels. She was fastidious and
organized and had thousands of color
combinations. It’s funny because when
you see a reproduction of her paintings,
it doesn’t translate, but in real life, they
sing. I got a chance to walk through Ghost
Ranch [O’Keeffe’s former residence] before
it was open to the public.
What was her home like?
It was like walking through an O’Keeffe painting.
Everything was so thoughtful and so purposefully
arranged.
Why did you find this fellowship
appealing?
It’s quite forward thinking. Hands-on training
opportunities for potential museum directors are
rare, so for the executive team at TMA to offer this
experience shows a very strong commitment to
the field as a whole. Those kinds of contributions
extend far beyond the institution itself.
Varujan Boghosian,
Visual Poet
“I don’t make anything,” Varujan Boghosian once declared. “I
find everything.”
One of the artist’s studios, in the basement of Dartmouth
College’s health center, is filled with the spoils of his junk shop
hunts. The door, hung with a sign that says “Do Not Enter
Without Previous Permission,” guards tabletops and floors
covered with a landscape of antique treasures: vintage paper
cut from fairytale stories, sailors’ smoking pipes combed
from the beach, aged flags from past celebrations, discarded
children’s toys, puzzle pieces, and sheet music. Each piece,
lost or abandoned by some previous owner, waits to find its
new meaning through Mr. Boghosian’s collages.
The artist has been described as many things: sculptor,
assembler, constructionist, builder, beachcomber, scavenger,
collector, historian, and conservator. Born in 1926 in Connecticut
to Armenian immigrants, he initially thought he would be a writer
or teacher—as a teenager he was fascinated by ancient myths
and literary figures. Though he eventually found his clearest
voice in the visual arts, studying at the Yale School of Art and
Architecture, those initial aspirations weren’t dismissed, but
rather incorporated into his work and life. He spent decades
teaching art at Yale, Brown, and Dartmouth. And in his art, he
expresses a deep appreciation for literature, testing viewers’
intellect with his myriad references, from the ancient Greek
myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the poetry of Irish novelist
James Joyce.
His careful pairings of disparate objects reside in many
collections, including those of The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
The Museum of Modern Art, and The New York Public Library.
“I work with the mystery of myth and the ambiguity of form,” Mr.
Boghosian has said. “Which of these unions will survive alone?
Which the timeless blend? The question is the sole propellant.”
An exhibition of Varujan Boghosian’s work will be on display
through May 25 in the Wolfe Gallery mezzanine and through
April 13 in Gallery 18. Mr. Boghosian will appear on Friday,
January 31 for a live discussion with Museum Director Brian
Kennedy at 7:30 p.m. in the Little Theater.
Varujan Boghosian (American, born 1926), Swan and Serpent (detail), collage, 2011.
Courtesy of the artist
“I don’t make
anything. I find
everything.”
VOLUME 10 | Issue 1
23
People
Guest Artist Pavilion Project Welcomes Icon an
LINO TAGLIAPIETRA
The most eminent man in
glassblowing began his career
with a bucket of water.
As a 12-year-old apprentice,
Lino Tagliapietra spent the
better parts of 1946 and 1947
as a water carrier. He would
watch his mentor, Muranese
glass
master
Archimede
Seguso, as he turned and
shaped vessel after vessel,
using techniques developed
over centuries and kept as
closely
guarded
secrets.
When he turned 13, Mr. Tagliapietra was finally allowed to try his
hand at it. It was the beginning of a seven-decade career that
would help advance the art of glassblowing around the world.
At 21, he became a maestro; a few years later, he began to
explore his own designs. His participation in the La Scuola
Internazionale del Vetro symposiums on his home island of
Murano, a gathering of glass masters and artists of a range
of different mediums in the 1970s, was the beginning of his
transition from traditional Venetian master glassblower to
independent studio artist.
“Lino is, in my opinion, the only living glass artist who is capable
of creating works of the same technological skill level as his
ancestors during the Italian Renaissance 500 years ago,” said
Jutta Page, TMA curator of glass and decorative arts. “He’s the
greatest living master of Venetian glass technology.”
His decades perfecting technique positioned him to express his
inspirations—drawn from sources as earthy as Maasai warrior
shields and as “pop” as Batman—with an almost supernatural
perfection. His works’ simplicity of shape belies the complex,
quiet theater required to bring them to fruition. It is a magical
performance Mr. Tagliapietra has shared across Asia, Australia,
Europe and North and South America.
“I think I am extremely lucky,” he
has said. “I get the opportunity
to express what I think.”
But, like magic, it’s
an art few can truly
understand. “Only the people
[who] blow glass know what it means
when you make something very special.”
Lino Tagliapietra will offer ticketed, public
demonstrations of his work from Wednesday,
March 26 through Friday, March 28 for $30 per
work session, with morning and afternoon sessions
each day. Ticket reservations can be made by phone
at 419-255-8000 ext. 7448 starting February 1 during
regular Museum hours; space is limited. Tagliapietra
will also offer a free, public demonstration on Saturday,
March 29 from 10 a.m. to noon.
“...the greatest
living master of
Venetian glass
technology.”
Lino Tagliapietra (Italian, born 1934), Dinosaur.
Glass; blown, tooled, ground and polished battuto,
2006. Gift of the artist, 2007.16
24
nd Up-and-Comer
JASON CHAKRAVARTY
The astronauts that exist in
Jason Chakravarty’s world
are faceless. They stand in
anticipation of an experience
we can’t quite grasp. Their
bulky costumes erase identity,
concealing
gender
and
race.
“The hope is that any viewer
can put themselves into that
place,” Mr. Chakravarty said,
“and no two reactions would
be the same.”
A mixed media object maker, Mr. Chakravarty stretches the limits
of his materials. He uses glass’s many incarnations—“thick, thin,
shiny, dull, rough, smooth, transparent, or opaque”—to explore
the lack of human contact within modern-day relationships
transformed by social networking. His inspirations spring from
“the now” and range from Facebook to TV news broadcasts on
the elimination of cursive in school curriculums.
Mr. Chakravarty has taught neon and kiln casting workshops
nationwide, and his work has been shown in more than 100
exhibitions. While the Guest Artist Pavilion Project (GAPP)
resident is looking forward to discussing his methods during an
artist talk on January 17, he is also ready to create something
new from the experience.
“The narrative becomes a lot more spontaneous when you’re
in the hot shop versus studying a wax for hours or weeks,” Mr.
Chakravarty said. “Pushing the possibilities keeps me hungry.”
Jason Chakravarty, a Cincinnati resident, is the third in an
ongoing series of GAPP regional artist residents. He will present
a free talk at 7 p.m. on January 17 in the GlasSalon, followed by
a live demonstration at 8 p.m. in the hot shop.
Donor Profile
Posy’s Purpose
The map of the world that
hangs in Posy Huebner’s
office is full of holes.
Dozens of push pins
fill
the
perforations,
markers
representing
her adventures across
the continents. Amid the
lessons from so many
far-flung locales (among
them: always approach a
camel from the side and
hold on for dear life on an
ostrich) was one about
the Toledo Museum of
Art.
“I’ve been all over the
world,” she says, “and believe me, our Museum is very
special.”
The Museum has always been a fixture in Mrs. Huebner’s
life. It is the setting for many of her childhood memories, one
of her earliest being January 10, 1933—she was 10 years
old and dressed in her finest to attend the opening of the
Peristyle.
As her life evolved, so did her relationship to the Museum.
As a college student in the 1940s, she attended Peristyle
concerts with her husband, Robert. Later, when her son
Brad was old enough, they brought him along too. And when
it came time for her retirement from running a nursery school
in the 1980s, she became a Docent, leading tours through
the Museum she had seen grow across decades.
“Really I am so proud of Toledo’s collection,” Mrs. Huebner
said. “I think it’s amazing how people in Toledo feel like it’s
theirs. They have a personal feeling about the Museum.”
Throughout her life, Mrs. Huebner has been a patron of the
Museum, an example set by her father, a landscape architect
and artist. Giving, like traveling, became a fundamental
part of her life. Today, she serves as a major donor to the
Museum. “In the first place, it makes you feel better,” Mrs.
Huebner says of community involvement.
After 90 years of living, she is a concise advisor. In life, she
said, there are three simple rules: “Never stop learning. Try a
lot of things. See as much as you can see.”
To discuss joining as a major donor, contact Kathy Miller,
development officer for major gifts, at 419-255-8000 ext.
7510 or email [email protected].
Jason Chakravarty (American, born 1976), Treading. Cast glass and steel, 2013.
VOLUME 10 | Issue 1
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Museum Store
Pop-Up Shop: Bring Paris Home
When Museum Store Manager Heather Blankenship began researching merchandise related to The Art of the Louvre’s Tuileries
Garden, she realized that her Francophile moment would need its own space. “The French approach to everything has tremendous
style and craftsmanship,” she said. “And not only that, it’s romantic.” The pop-up shop, adjacent to the exhibition gallery, will carry
products made in France that will allow visitors to take a piece of Paris home with them. Here, Miss Blankenship shares her favorites.
Fermob Luxembourg Chairs
“These are the same ones that are at the Tuileries garden in Paris and in our
exhibition. They’re made of 100 percent recycled metal that’s very lightweight
and rust resistant. And they have a very sleek, modern look.”
Bacsac Planters
“People usually think of planters as porcelain, but I’m always looking for
something that is not like what you normally see. These are very modern and
understated, and 100 percent recyclable and frost, UV, tear, and traction
resistant. I love how utilitarian they are.”
Butterfly Feeders
“Glass has all those reflective properties, so to see it in nature
is one of the most beautiful ways to see glass. TMA’s are
handblown by local artist Larry Mack, who’s well-known for
garden art.”
Fermob Luxembourg Chair
Toy Sailboat
Le Théâtre d’Ombres
“It’s very whimsical to conduct your own shadow puppet
show with a lamp and a little imagination, and this one
has the charm of a French twist. They also make fabulous
props for bedtime stories.”
Le Botaniste
“It’s great to have the kids explore nature with you, and this has a charm to it. The
specimen boxes, leafpress, magnifying glass—they all teach children the value of
looking closer and foster creativity.”
Le Botaniste
Toy Sailboat
“It’s very iconic to see all these French toy boats in the fountains at
the Tuileries Garden in Paris. These Tirot sailboats are handmade in
France by a family-run company.”
Exhibition Catalogue
“It’s gorgeous, full-color documentation of the art and life that
makes up the Tuileries, fully examined across centuries. It’s the
number one way to take home the experience of the exhibition.”
Le Théâtre d’Ombres
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Visual Literacy
Look Deeper | Visual Literacy at TMA
Each issue, we ask a Toledo Museum of Art visitor to tell us—what do you see when you look deeper? Share your insight
into a particular work of art in the Museum’s collection by emailing [email protected].
“I have a rule—I try not to like or dislike
something without knowing why. And I
am more drawn to the things I like that
keep me uncertain as to why I like them.
There are certain works at the Museum
that get to me more than others because
of this. Picasso’s Woman with a Crow* is
one of those. I used to see her sitting at
a window, the blue sky reflected back,
lonely, desperate for any contact, even
from a bird. Now I think the bird is not
actually there but is a symbol of the
woman’s despondency. What I have
come to realize is that I like the artist’s
desire to tell the story. Whether we are
peeking through a window or seeing a
captured moment, the relationship is
between us and the story. The artist’s
ego is removed and that leaves us and
the characters to help each other wrestle
for meaning. I will keep listening to her
until I figure it out.”
–Andrew Newby, TMA Member and
co-founder of marketing technology
company Avatar
To learn more about Visual Literacy, visit
VisLit.org.
*Though this popular work from TMA’s
collection is not currently on view, we
have included it for your enjoyment in
ArTMAtters.
Pablo Picasso (Spanish 1881–1973), Woman with a Crow.
Charcoal, pastel, and watercolor on paper, mounted on
pressboard, 1904. Purchased with funds from the Libbey
Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey, 1936.4
“...I like the artist’s desire
to tell the story.”
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