Some of the most tenacious and generous and art-savvy people in the region found their way to The Hall at St. James in Lakewood for CAN Journal’s benefit, Buy Art / Buy Ohio November 8. Thanks to generous support from Walk Your Plans, the organization had a gorgeous venue with a projection system we were able to use to bathe […]
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“Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt.” – Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, 1781 “I hope that [the] painting has the impact of giving someone… the feeling […]
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The exhibition New Work: Amanda D. King, Charmaine Spencer, Erykah Townsend, Antwoine Washington at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Transformer Station, is one ofthe key events in recent efforts by arts institutions, philanthropists and artists to advance contemporary art and support the careers of emerging artists in Northeast Ohio. Coming out of the FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art […]
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Two thousand years ago, a story circulated in the ancient Roman world about a moldable, yet unbreakable, material unlike anything that had come before. In the 7th century, the bishop scholar Isidore of Seville featured this tale in his Etymologies: “They claim that under Tiberius Caesar a certain craftsman devised a formula for glass so that it would be flexible […]
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“[Pat’s in the Flats] was a dive bar with a shitty sound system that no one seemed to be able to comprehend. It was a venue that offered an uninhibited space for creative expression, [and] Pat [herself] was the magic.” – Shawn Mishak[1] In 1987 Patricia Hanych took over her family’s restaurant-bar at the bottom of Literary Hill in Tremont, […]
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Sixty years ago, Iran was an ally of the US. The two countries had made deals involving nuclear technology in exchange for access to petroleum, and it was the polite remains of that relationship that led to Andy Warhol’s 1976 trip to Iran to take photos of Empress Farah Pahlavi–wife of the Shah–as reference to make a painting of her. […]
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What are they thinking? That’s what artists wonder when they submit their work to juried shows, and what audiences must often wonder when they go to the openings. The jurors of the 2025 Paul and Norma Tikkanen Prize for Painting, administered by the Ashtabula Arts Center had interesting things to say. The jurors—all based in Florida–were artist and educator Pip […]
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Why do people look at art? What draws them to shows? What do they want from an exhibit experience? Is it as simple as human connection? Is it to see what an artist has to say, or see what a hundred artists have to say, or see their own work in the context of others? Is it to experience fine […]
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It is not often that the Cleveland Museum of Art constructs an exhibition centered around a single object. Even more rare is an exhibition that focuses on revealing the object’s extensive conservation history. Though the CMA has encouraged discussion around conservation in the past—such as with objects like the Cambodian sculpture Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan (c.600) and Caravaggio’s The Crucifixion […]
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In recognition of his several decades of promoting access to public art in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio, Greg Peckham was selected by the Cleveland Arts Prize to receive this year’s Robert P. Bergman Prize. “Greg exemplifies the values celebrated by the Bergman Prize,” says artist, friend and mentee, Mark Reigelman II (CAP 2018). “His thoughtful leadership, generosity of spirit, and […]
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