Barcelona comes to the partially re-opened Cleveland Museum of Art

CLEVELAND -- Though it closed last January for a six-year, $258 million expansion and renovation, the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) recently opened (partially) to the public for the first time in 10 months with the exhibition, "Barcelona & Modernity: Picasso, Gaudi, Miro, Dali," through Jan. 7, 2007.

Organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, in association with the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya in Barcelona, the exhibition is the first ever to examine the 71-year period (1868--1939) when Barcelona became a center of modernist art and architecture in Europe.

The project was led by William Robinson, the CMA's curator of Modern European art, who together with "five curators and advisors" from Europe and the United States, identified and secured more than 350 works in a range of media from museums and private collections throughout Europe and the United States to make up the exhibition. During a press briefing, Robinson said that the catalog alone represented the efforts of 34 contributing authors.

The exhibition also will travel to New York where it will be on view from March 5 through June 3, 2007.

For more information, call 888-CMA-0033; visit www.ClevelandArt.org.

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