Still Emerging after 19 years: From Woman, at Understory.

This year, Mary Urbas, long-time curator of From Woman, returned to Understory to mount part of her large-scale, annual exhibition, now in its 19th iteration. As in 2025, art is spread across multiple spaces. In chronological order of their openings, they were at the McDonough Museum at Youngstown State University (January 20–February 28) : Lake Erie College’s BK Smith Gallery […]

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Don Harvey: Selected Works 2016-2026 at William Busta Projects

Don Harvey’s latest exhibition at William Busta Projects might not look like what you expect, and that’s what makes it so compelling. Harvey is best known for his subversive paintings of figures and animals emerging from evocative geometric landscapes. His current work, however, eschews public expectations in favor of deep introspection. Shaking off the burden of representation, Harvey’s new paintings […]

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No Longer In The Building: Terry Durst, 1955 – 2026

Cleveland artist Terry Durst–who with his late, former life partner Dan Tranberg was an integral part of the artistic energy in the Tremont neighborhood from the late 80s to the early 2000s– was found dead in his home in early April 2026, discovered during a welfare check. He was 70 or 71 years old, depending on whether the birthday listed […]

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Turning to Hear, See, and Touch: Ann Hamilton’s Textured Images

Before laying eyes on Ann Hamilton: still and moving • the tactile image at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA), visitors first make contact through sound at a distance. A pair of pole-mounted Leslie speakers beckons museum-goers with mysterious pings, chirps, and whistles.[1] Entering the first of two rooms that make up this exhibition, viewers encounter a theatrical presentation in […]

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Zygote Press: A Home of their Own with Elbow Room, Plus Room for Guests

Zygote Press–Cleveland’s community access, fine art printmaking co-op–not only has a spacious new home, but is moving into it with remarkable speed.  Just six weeks (plus a few days) after a champagne toast celebrating the February 24 closure of the deal, executive director Jackie Feldman and crew have moved their extensive (and growing) collection of very heavy printmaking stuff into […]

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No Exit Rediscovers the Cleveland School

Cleveland has always known how to keep its secrets under smoggy, overcast skies. While New York thundered through the Jazz Age and Paris shimmered at the turn of the twentieth century, an extraordinary group of artists was thriving along the Cuyahoga — painters, poets, and provocateurs bound together by immigrant ambition and industrial grit, forming clubs, staging masked balls scandalous […]

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Gary T. Erbe- Cubist Influence and Levitational Realism

As I walked through Gary Erbe: Magical World at the Butler Institute of American Art, it was immediately evident that his major influence is Pablo Picasso, emulating many of the modern master’s compositions in several paintings included in the exhibition. Yet nowhere in Gary T. Erbe’s biography or in prior exhibition reviews do the artist or scholars acknowledge Picasso, despite […]

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Raheleh Mohammad: Quietly Resilient

When Raheleh Mohammad got word that power was out at Cool Water Dry Goods in Tremont just hours before the scheduled opening of her show during the March Walkabout, it would have been easy enough to re-schedule. The staff at the shop was supportive. But Raheleh had spoken with her mother earlier in the day: her mother had called to […]

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