Cleveland Museum openings

Two major ticketed exhibitions are now open at the Cleveland Museum of Art: “Manet & Morisot” and “Martin Puryear: Nexus.” (clevelandart.org) “Manet & Morisot” opened on March 29 and runs through July 5, 2026, in the museum’s Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Gallery. The show is the first major exhibition devoted to the artistic exchange between French painters Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot. (clevelandart.org) The museum says “Martin Puryear: Nexus” opened April 12 and runs through August 9, 2026, in the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Exhibition Hall and Gallery 224B. The survey brings together about 50 works by Puryear, including sculpture, drawings, prints, and maquettes. (clevelandart.org) The two shows anchor the museum’s spring and summer special exhibitions lineup for its 2026 season. The museum is also selling a combo package that lets visitors buy admission to both exhibitions together and save up to $9. (clevelandart.org) “Manet & Morisot” reframes a familiar Impressionist story by pairing the artists as collaborators and mutual influences rather than treating Morisot as a secondary figure. The exhibition includes 36 paintings and works on paper from United States and European collections. (clevelandart.org) Heather Lemonedes Brown, the museum’s curator of Modern European Art, said the exhibition looks at “the dialogue between the two.” In an April 9 report, Ideastream said the show examines how Manet and Morisot influenced each other’s work across the late 1860s to late 1880s. (ideastream.org) “Martin Puryear: Nexus” is the first comprehensive exhibition of the sculptor’s work in nearly two decades, according to the museum. It was co-organized with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and will travel next to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta from September 25, 2026, through January 17, 2027. (clevelandart.org) The museum announced the broader 2026 exhibition schedule in December and tied it to its 110th anniversary year. That lineup put “Manet & Morisot” and “Martin Puryear: Nexus” among the season’s featured draws months before the openings. (clevelandart.org) As of April 13, both exhibitions appear on the museum’s current exhibitions listings, and both offer reserved tickets and related tours. The opening push on museum and partner channels now shifts to the longer test for any exhibition run: turning early attention into sustained attendance through summer. (clevelandart.org)