In Glowing Color: Richard Andres 2.0: Selected Works, 1975 – 1990, at Wolf’s

While not exactly invisible, Richard Andres had a low profile during his lifetime, supporting himself as a high school art teacher, occasionally showing in the May Show (where he won some awards), quietly working away in his home studio in Hudson, Ohio in a house that was largely of his own design, its large windows looking out on the surrounding […]

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Cleveland Artists Foundation: Can the Phoenix Fly Again?

In the forty years since it was founded in 1984, the Cleveland Artist’s Foundation has gone through many ups and downs, but has been the one exhibiting organization in the city to focus consistently on the art-life of Cleveland.  Over the years it has produced a very impressive series of scholarly and also very readable publications on Cleveland art, devoted […]

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China’s Southern Paradise, Reviewed

The Cleveland Museum’s current exhibition on China’s Southern Paradise is one of the most ambitious scholarly projects it has staged in some time, and one of the most remarkable gatherings of top notch art.  It’s also a show that is bit daunting for the general visitor, and it’s particularly unfortunate that the catalogue will not be available until the final […]

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Simple, Subtle, Quiet Beauty: The Verne Gallery Celebrates Its 70th Year

It’s being done very quietly, but this month the Verne Gallery celebrates a remarkable anniversary—its seventieth year in business—making it the second-oldest gallery in Cleveland after the Bonfoey Gallery, established in 1893. Such longevity in itself is remarkable, but in this instance all the more so, because the Verne Gallery is a bit of an anomaly in today’s art world, […]

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Building on Change: Interview with Megan Lykins Reich

  In June 2020, Jill Snyder, former executive director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, resigned amid controversy over an exhibition. After nineteen months and nearly a year-long search, Megan Lykins Reich, who has been serving as interim director, was appointed to serve as the new Kohl Executive Director at moCa. Having first met when she took his master’s […]

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Zen Master Laurence Channing at Bonfoey

For years Laurence Channing was director of publications at the Cleveland Museum of Art, but would rise every morning hours before dawn to put in a few hours of drawing before he went to work.  As this suggests, while his effects are delicate, there’s a stubborn intensity to his vision.  He seems indifferent to the usual artistic tricks for calling […]

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JEANNINE deNOBEL LOVE, CLEVELAND ARCHITECTURE, 1890-1930: BUILDING THE CITY BEAUTIFUL, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS

To lure buyers, it’s common to say that a book is a “page-turner.” That’s not the case here, but nonetheless it’s well worth buying Jeannine deNobel Love’s Cleveland Architecture, 1890-1930: Building the City Beautiful, and keeping it close at hand. For anyone who lives in Cleveland or who’s interested in the arts, this is an indispensable reference. Cleveland’s greatest period […]

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Thirty Years After The Perfect Moment

Dennis Barrie was director of the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center when he and the museum became the first in the US to face obscenity charges over the art they exhibited–a retrospective of Robert Mapplethorpe’s provocative photos, titled The Perfect Moment. He went on to serve as executive director of Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, and subsequently […]

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The Jazz Age: An Interview with Curator Stephen Harrison

The exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art have been uneven of late, but the one on view now, The Jazz Age, is a dazzler. It’s visually stunning; it’s intellectually fascinating; it’s full of wonderful surprises, in that it brings together objects that you don’t usually see in an art museum, such as jewelry and costumes, in a highly creative […]

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The Invisible Man: William Robinson

  This is adapted from a letter from Henry Adams, nominating William Robinson for the Cleveland Arts Prize. When there’s a great exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art, not many people stop to think about who was responsible for creating it, or about the challenges of making it happen.  The key visionary and impresario behind a great many of […]

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