Join CMA curator Kaitlin Booher and members of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra for an afternoon of music and art. In 1975, British fashion photographer Cecil Beaton called his predecessor Baron Adolf de Meyer the “Debussy of the camera,” because of de Meyer’s atmospheric and luminous lighting in his photographs from the 1910s and 20s. Beaton’s comparison was apt, because de Meyer, like Claude Debussy, was preoccupied with pushing the limits... Read more »

Join CMA curator Daniel Marcus and members of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra for an afternoon of music and art. In anticipation of the Symphony’s forthcoming performance of Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring, Marcus will discuss the collaborative work of sculptor Isamu Noguchi and dancer Martha Graham, whose creative partnership—including set design and choreography for the 1944... Read more »

Join CMA curator Daniel Marcus and members of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra for the first Mozart to Matisse program of the 2024–2025 season, featuring Anton Arensky’s String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 35 (1894). Marcus will explore the relationship between art and music in the Russian Empire at the end of the 19th century, focusing on Arensky’s... Read more »

Join the Columbus Museum of Art and Columbus Symphony Orchestra for an afternoon of visual art and music. The Rococo style of the eighteenth century was full of rebellion, with artists such as François Boucher, Thomas Gainsborough, and Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun eschewing established artistic traditions and producing elaborate paintings. A discussion on these artists... Read more »