CLEVELAND, OH.- A collection of 19th- and 20th-century portable objects from southern Africa and a contemporary sculpture and video piece from American artist Tony Oursler are the latest works acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art. The acquisitions were approved by the Collections Committee of the museum’s Board of Trustees at its September meeting. Among the works added to the collection by gift or purchase, the following are the most noteworthy: Fifteen Portable Objects from Southern Africa — Acquisition makes Cleveland one of the few U.S. museums to possess a representative collection of high-quality southern African art. Until recently, objects from southern Africa — which are typically small, domestic and personal — have been perceived as being more ethnographic than artistic in nature. It has only been within the past three decades that interest in the artistic legacy of this part of the African