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WITH ALL DUE RESPECT: Cleveland-based Op-Art pioneer Julian Stanczak should...

Recently the internationally acclaimed master of Op Art, Julian Stanczak, who has lived and worked for the last forty years in Cleveland, Read More

RAGE AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT: Analog photographers are not ready to give...

The black-and-white landscape photographs in Welcome to Hard Times—the opening exhibit of the Cleveland Print  Room—are a boisterous amalgam of primitive and Read More

THE NINE: The Northern Ohio Art Dealers Association in the 2nd Year of its Rebirth

How many serious commercial art galleries are there, here in northern Ohio? Venues that aren’t museums or college  campuses, but where people actually make a Read More

DIRTY ART AND DIRTY HANDS Examining what puts the “porn” in Ruin Porn

Ruin porn--that much-maligned meme for artistic depictions of abandoned buildings--suffers from one intractable problem. Most of those who decry its gratuitous Read More

Frank Green (July 28, 1957–January 23, 2013)

In art and in life, Frank Green made it his mission to push boundaries and make people uncomfortable. In the early nineties he butted heads with Thomas Read More

PLUGGED IN

“Nobody’s ever—kind of—done this before…” Fred Bidwell glances distractedly through his office windows. Outside, the  square brick façade of the Bidwell Read More

MOCA and the Dome of Heaven

A museum of contemporary art should catch one’s eye. Appropriately, then, one’s first reaction on seeing Farshid  Moussavi’s new museum of contemporary art for Read More

MADE OF CLEVELAND; When the city’s influence goes deep beneath the surface

by Erin O'Brien   For some artists, simply depicting Cleveland in their work isn’t enough. From a metal sculptor who hand forges Read More

HERDING CATS: Four artist-organizers discuss the hows and whys

Artists build careers by their individualism. They function on their own clocks, and get attention with original ideas.  That means the people who organize Read More

Randall Tiedman: January 31, 1949–November 4, 2012

by Erin O'Brien   Randall Tiedman’s body of work spanned nearly five decades. It began with a comic book cover when Tiedman was 15  and included Read More

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Fall Events

Saturday, Sept. 15 SPAR X City Hop If an art exhibit is like a visual circus, then Sparx City Hop has a little bit in Read More

Small Moment, Big Space

Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art by Read More

Events by Neighborhood

Bay Village : BAYarts PNC Summer Concert Series 2013

June07th through August18th

Beginning June 7th: Free outdoor concerts featuring regional musicians. Grab a picnic, friends and family. Food available at Mojo's Coffee in BAYarts and Vento's next to BAYarts (reservation recommended 440-835-4530). Family friendly, pets on leash only. more...

Individual Artists : Chicks with Balls

August09th through August30th

[caption id="attachment_1902" align="alignnone" width="270"] Nina is grace under fire…by Judy Takács[/caption] Judy Takács Paints Unsung Female Heroes Several years ago, Judy more...