Cleveland Museum openings

The Cleveland Museum of Art opened two headline exhibitions this spring: Manet & Morisot on March 29 and Martin Puryear: Nexus on April 12. (clevelandart.org) Manet & Morisot runs through July 5, 2026, and the museum calls it the first major exhibition devoted to the artistic exchange between Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot. The show is in the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Gallery and requires a ticket. (clevelandart.org) Martin Puryear: Nexus runs through August 9, 2026, and the Cleveland museum co-organized it with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The exhibition surveys Puryear’s work from the early 1960s to the present and then travels to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. (clevelandart.org) The two openings anchor the museum’s spring and summer ticketed program in its 110th anniversary year. The museum’s 2026 schedule also includes Spectacular Freedom: Andrew Wyeth and the Modern American Watercolor in the fall and a juried Northeast Ohio show, Lake Effect: Artists from Cleveland Now, in July. (clevelandart.org) The pairing also shows how the museum is balancing international art-historical names with living American artists. One exhibition centers on 19th-century French painting, while the other presents what the museum describes as Puryear’s most comprehensive exhibition in nearly two decades. (clevelandart.org 1) (clevelandart.org 2) Local coverage has treated both shows as major April openings. Ideastream reported that Manet & Morisot places the two artists’ works side by side, while Cleveland.com said the Puryear survey traces the sculptor’s development from the 1960s to today. (ideastream.org) (cleveland.com) The museum folded the openings into a broader April calendar that included concerts, lectures, and gallery programming. In its March 27 event listing, the museum labeled Martin Puryear: Nexus as “New This Month,” signaling the April 12 opening in advance. (clevelandart.org) For visitors, the practical takeaway is simple: both exhibitions are open now, both are ticketed, and the museum is selling a combo package for the pair. The spring announcement on social media matched what the museum had already laid out in its 2026 exhibition schedule: two marquee shows arriving back to back in Cleveland. (clevelandart.org 1) (clevelandart.org 2)