{"id":14189,"date":"2026-03-31T15:41:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T19:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=14189"},"modified":"2026-03-31T15:42:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T19:42:03","slug":"surprises-at-the-cleveland-museum-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2026\/03\/surprises-at-the-cleveland-museum-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprises at the Cleveland Museum of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first surprise was learning that Tuesday is Senior Day at the museum. This means that the museum was filled with the type of people I try to avoid: Kamala-supporting, beret-wearing Boomers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second surprise was discovering that the recently opened Manet-Morisot exhibition is a magnet for the Boomers I already mentioned. They love ole&#8217; Berthe. I held my nose and swam through the overcrowded and warm exhibit rooms. There were two Manets that were new to me and call for another visit (not on a Tuesday!). Otherwise, the exhibit was swamped with drab paintings by the overrated Morisot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The worst surprise was learning that my favorite among the museum&#8217;s paintings was not on exhibit. It was the first time during the 14 years that I&#8217;ve been visiting the museum that I couldn&#8217;t study David&#8217;s <em>Cupid and Psyche<\/em>. Apparently, the painting isn&#8217;t on loan as I first thought, but has been put into storage! What? What? This is horrible news. This changes how I feel about the museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"775\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1962.37_web.jpg?resize=1024%2C775\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1962.37_web.jpg?resize=1024%2C775&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1962.37_web.jpg?resize=300%2C227&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1962.37_web.jpg?resize=768%2C581&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1962.37_web.jpg?resize=600%2C454&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1962.37_web.jpg?w=1180&amp;ssl=1 1180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, as usual, when I visit the museum, I start with the excellent Asian collection, where I discovered this small print. Pardon the poor photo; the piece was in a case at a weird angle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/z20260331_131159.jpg?resize=1024%2C653\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/z20260331_131159.jpg?resize=1024%2C653&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/z20260331_131159.jpg?resize=300%2C191&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/z20260331_131159.jpg?resize=768%2C490&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/z20260331_131159.jpg?resize=600%2C383&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/z20260331_131159.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first surprise was learning that Tuesday is Senior Day at the museum. This means that the museum was filled with the type of people I try to avoid: Kamala-supporting, beret-wearing Boomers. The second surprise was discovering that the recently opened Manet-Morisot exhibition is a magnet for the Boomers I already mentioned. They love ole&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":14190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-museum","category-cleveland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4018,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/planned-visit-to-the-cleveland-museum-of-art\/","url_meta":{"origin":14189,"position":0},"title":"Planned visit to the Cleveland Museum of Art","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"August 22, 2014","format":"status","excerpt":"I'm going to the Cleveland Museum of Art later today to visit the Durer exhibition for the 3rd time. 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