During a recent lunchtime talk at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Fred Bidwell, acting director of the Cleveland Museum of Art, told the crowd that the museum’s May Show—the display of art made in Cleveland and the surrounding region, last presented in 1993—”won’t come back.” “It’s just not part of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s mission,” Bidwell said. For those who don’t remember, the May […]
Read moreCleveland painter and print maker Edwin Kaufman was just 32 years old, and had already exhibited his work in several May Shows and established himself in New York when he died in a bridge collapse in 1939. CAN Journal recently heard from his sister, Bernice LePan, of Los Angeles, who is looking for a home for her collection of his […]
Read moreThe placement of public sculpture often says as much as the sculpture itself–rather in the way that the position of people in family snapshots can say a lot about their degree of friendship and their respective roles. A fascinating instance of this is the sculpture of the poet Hart Crane by the late Bill McVey (1904-1995) that stands beside […]
Read moreRecently the internationally acclaimed master of Op Art, Julian Stanczak, who has lived and worked for the last forty years in Cleveland, was nominated for an honorary doctoral degree from Case Western Reserve University. We can’t think of a painter who has ever received this award. The man responsible for this initiative is Richard Hanson, istinguished Professor of Biochemistry at Case Western Reserve University, and the world’s […]
Read moreA 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 Cleveland is: “What’s that?” With its unusual angles sheathed in dark, mirror-like stainless steel, one might well suppose that it’s not a building at all, but a piece of abstract sculpture. It’s hard not be provoked and intrigued, and it’s hard not to want […]
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