CMA Part 2: The Etchings of John Taylor Arms
Christopher Dwyer, Fine Arts Reporter
September 21, 2012
About Whoville’s dulcet yuletide chorus, Dr. Seuss’s garlic-souled Grinch exclaimed, “Oh, the noise! Noise! Noise! Noise!” What if he had cried, with jeers or joy, “Oh, the lines! Lines! Lines! Lines!”? He would have visited the Cleveland Museum of Art’s tour-de-force exhi...
In over his head: Analyzing CMA’s new acquisition “Drusus Minor”
Christopher Dwyer, Fine Arts Reporter
September 14, 2012
Imagine: Your father is Tiberius, Rome’s moody second emperor (r. 14-37 AD); he, with your colorful cousin Caligula, regularly retreats to Capri to watch tortures and executions. Your adoptive grandfather, Augustus, Rome’s venerated first emperor (r. 27 BC-14 AD), insists your sadistic father adopt...
