If you’re like me and spent a large part of the last twenty or so years reading books to children, then you’re going to be familiar with Oliver Jeffers. Jeffers was born in Australia and raised in Northern Ireland. He is an award-winning artist, illustrator, and writer who has sold more than ten million picture books. His books Here We […]
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Nostalgia drenches us with the exalted and sanitized familiar, usually rooted in childhood or in shape-shifting adolescence. It’s comfort food for the weary soul, it tiptoes at the edge of cliché, and it provides great fodder for advertisers and semioticians alike. It’s now on view in a blast of color, readymades, and delight in Be Kind…Rewind: A Nostalgia Show, through […]
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The local impact of NEA grant cancellations has been a mix of real financial damage, fear and uncertainty, along with tentative hope due to the timing of the cancellation, and the timelines of affected grants. The whole dynamic is complicated by the slow pace of bureaucracy, the requirement of matching funds, and the lag time for the period of activity […]
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Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior premiered at the Palazzo Soranzo van Axel in Venice, (April 20–October 20, 2024) as a collateral event of the 60th International La Biennale di Venezia. The U.S. iterations are co-organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cincinnati Art Museum. This is the most comprehensive presentation of the Pakistani American artist’s work to date, bringing together 40 pieces […]
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Artful, the Cleveland Heights artists collective formerly housed in the Coventry PEACE Campus, has a new home: the former St. Alban’s Episcopal Church a few blocks west of Coventry PEACE , at 2555 Euclid Heights Boulevard, at the corner of Edgehill. Thanks to “generous, anonymous donors,” Artful bought the 20,000-square-foot building May 23 for $300,000 in cash, according to Artful […]
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Mark Common paints landscapes almost exclusively, and he says in a statement on the wall at ArtiCle Gallery, “I sometimes derisively mock my work as just pretty pictures.” He adds, “on a certain level, I hope that is true.” And in fact it is, as you can see if you check out Mark Common – Oil Paintings at Article Gallery […]
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Art writing works like the hands of a clock: it runs late, on time, or strikes early. Art writing works within history, alongside it and incongruously too. Sometimes farsighted and other times myopic, art writing covers territory narrow and wide, academic and vernacular. Encompassing many different things, it includes today’s online reviews and medieval treatises about how to paint. Art […]
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When the room has emptied, when the breath lets go, when the wire pulls taut, when the light keeps shining: places without people still tell stories we can hear. Maxmillian Peralta reveals his new work—a significant departure from his earlier, court-painting-inspired portraiture—in Flat Affect, on view at the Massillon Museum’s Studio M Gallery, June 21 through August 3. Peralta received […]
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There are few times when a threadbare cliché—such as, say, thinking outside the box—seems made for a moment. When Grace Blackley and Maddie Harbert were in the early stages of their design degrees at Kent State University, they learned one of the first foundational lessons students are taught to master early on in the program: to draw a square. The […]
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The printed CAN Journal—CAN’s most visible and best-known outlet—typically doesn’t publish exhibit reviews. That’s because we want them to be timely, and our quarterly schedule often means exhibitions would be closed by the time a review could appear in print. Because the state of arts journalism is a current discussion in the region (including the essay in this issue by […]
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