Dr. Lady J—credentialed with a PhD in musicology, and a dissertation on how drag went mainstream—is a co-host of the FRONT Triennial podcast APodofDustandRainbows. She collaborates with textile artist Loraine Lynn on an installation/performance opening at the Cleveland Institute of Art on September 30. Dr. Lady J (she/they) is the world’s first drag queen with a PhD dissertation on drag […]
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FRONT TRIENNIAL ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PREM KRISHNAMURTHY AND CURATOR ANNIE WISCHMEYER TALK ABOUT CURATION DURING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC Brittany Mariel Hudak recently sat down with Prem Krishnamurthy and Annie Wischmeyer in the Ames Family Atrium of the Cleveland Museum of Art to discuss their curatorial strategies, inspirations, and what we can expect for FRONT 2022. Their team had just held a […]
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As Prussian troops prepared to crush the 1849 socialist uprising in Dresden, anarchist thinker Mikhail Bakunin proposed that paintings from the National Museum be placed in front of the barricades, reasoning that Prussian soldiers wouldn’t dare destroy the works to breach their defenses. Inspired by Bakunin’s never-realized proposal, artist Ahmet Öğüt has created site-specific “barricades” featuring works from museum collections […]
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The theme of architecture acts as a common thread binding three Oberlin exhibitions presented by the Allen Memorial Art Museum as part of the FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art. The museum’s Ellen Johnson Gallery, designed by Robert Venturi in the 1970s, offered a launching point for New York-based artist Barbara Bloom. Her installation responds to this complex, postmodern […]
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The exhibition New Work: Amanda D. King, Charmaine Spencer, Erykah Townsend, Antwoine Washington at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Transformer Station, is one ofthe key events in recent efforts by arts institutions, philanthropists and artists to advance contemporary art and support the careers of emerging artists in Northeast Ohio. Coming out of the FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art […]
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The weight of the world rests uneasy. Beauty appears, accompanied now by irony, now by reckoning; nearby, wandering and wonder come alongside to sit. Massive figures strain at the confines of their borders yet look utterly at home in their surroundings. Here are Stories Worth Telling, oil paintings by Augusto Bordelois on exhibit at the Canton Museum of Art, August […]
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New Work: Amanda D. King, Charmaine Spencer, Erykah Townsend, Antwoine Washington—the upcoming exhibition of works by the FRONT Art Futures Fellows at Transformer Station—will mark the end of the FRONT Triennial, and perhaps the most significant arts fellowship program ever yet offered to artists of Northeast Ohio. Since its inception, the FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art aimed to […]
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No one goes to an art exhibition expecting to be able to touch the art. But at the 10th International Artist Book Triennial Vilnius, on view at the Morgan Conservatory, it’s necessary to remind people. The reason, of course, is that books are best experienced by turning their pages. Artist books, though, are art, and fragile, and unless otherwise noted […]
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Collective Arts Network Board of Directors and Staff voted January 23 that the organization would not proceed with plans for CAN Triennial in 2025, and would instead focus on its core strengths and original mission: to provide a platform for communication and public discussion about art and related issues in Northeast Ohio. While that decision originally came with the intent […]
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FRONT Triennial’s announcement, in its entirety: It is with great regret that we announce the cancellation of FRONT International’s 2025 edition. The world is a very different place in 2024 than it was when our Founder, Fred Bidwell, launched this ambitious initiative in 2016. Public and private funding priorities have changed to focus on the critical needs of our communities. […]
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