A photograph appeared in the New York Times this past August, illustrating a profile article about the artist Frank Oriti. It shows him sitting next to one of his canvases in his Cleveland studio — a broad-shouldered thirty year old man, rocking an impeccable classic haircut and a somewhat severe vibe. He sits overshadowed by a self-portrait which is a […]
Read moreAs multi-media artist Kasumi’s feature-length film Shockwaves begins, we’re traveling underground in a dimly lit tunnel. Curving tracks flash on the dark road ahead. It’s a familiar and uncanny trope: for millennia human beings in search of self-knowledge have visited the symbolic core of existence via the windings of mysterious passages, twisting caverns that match up somehow with the pathways […]
Read moreHow 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 living by selling art? Places an exhibiting artist, or an aspiring collector, or any informed visitor might find to be professionally impressive? Maybe 50, 100? Probably less. Of course the nation’s heartland isn’t its artistic epicenter, not by the […]
Read more“Nobody’s ever—kind of—done this before…” Fred Bidwell glances distractedly through his office windows. Outside, the square brick façade of the Bidwell Foundation’s new Transformer Station renovation and expansion can be seen directly across West 29th Street – the “this” that he’s talking about. I think he means the qualifying phrase “kind of” as a disclaimer. But in fact nobody has done it before, or at […]
Read moreFading toward the point where it dead-ends at a railroad embankment just south of the Shoreway, West 78th Street doesn’t seem very special, at least not at first. An Episcopal church rests behind a white picket fence; a little farther along there’s a short strip of weathered brick factories. The area is becoming known by the trendy name “Battery Park” because of its proximity […]
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