Henry Adams, PhD, Author at Collective Arts Network - CAN Journal

WITH ALL DUE RESPECT: Cleveland-based Op-Art pioneer Julian Stanczak should have an honorary doctorate

Recently 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 […]

2(1) Spring 2013

MOCA and the Dome of Heaven

Henry Adams, PhD

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 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 […]

1(4) Winter 2012/2013