Nick Cave: Feat. Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries February 23–June 2 Nick Cave’s (b. 1959) dazzling trademark soundsuits were originally conceived as a kind of protective armor in the wake of Rodney King’s 1992 beating by members of the Los Angeles Police Department. “I started thinking about myself more and more as a black man—as someone discarded, devalued, viewed as […]
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We know what you want. You want our thoughts. You want our feelings. You want our stories. You want our ideas. You want our solutions. You want our frustration. You want our angry-artists-of-color voices represented in this publication in order to soothe white guilt. You want us to entertain to you. But, it’s cool. We see right through your offer. […]
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“A house is often more moody than nature …. They are built by men as dwellings, and this strange creature results. In the daytime they have an astonished look; at dusk they are evil; seem to brood over some crime. . . . Each one is individual.” – Charles Burchfield, 1916 On view until May 5 in the CMA […]
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Tomorrow (Saturday, February 23) the new exhibition Nick Cave: Feat. opens at Akron Art Museum – showcasing some of the artist’s most iconic bodies of work, including his signature soundsuits. These dazzling sculptural costumes are made of thousands of found objects, buttons, old toys, and other everyday items, but their visual brilliance conceals a darker message. Cave made his first […]
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The Spring 2019 issue of CAN, forthcoming March 1, includes an essay by gallerist and regional art historian William Busta, surveying artists’ treatment of the Cuyahoga River as a subject through the centuries. When we went looking for examples to illustrate the essay, we struck it rich with the Print Club of Cleveland. Coincidentally, there’s an exhibit of Print Club […]
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This Valentine’s Day, two Cleveland-based artists will open an exhibit in the nation’s art capital. Next week, The Carlson/Standley Experience will open at Field Projects Gallery in New York. The show is named for the contributing painters, John W. Carlson and Steven Standley. Though the style and content of both artists diverge from one another, they complement one another. Based […]
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“What more could I possibly ask as an artist than my most precious visions, however rare, sometimes assume the forms of my images.” – Maya Deren On a frigid day recently, Christa Ebert showed me upstairs to her West Park studio. Among the many effects pedals, microphones, and audio equipment stood a vintage projection screen – the kind of […]
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Nearly two years after the sunset of Cuyahoga Arts and Culture’s Creative Workforce Fellowship program, a new version has been birthed. Its creation follows the instigative energy of public discord resulting from a change in the status of the program (formerly administered by Arts Cleveland / Community Partnership for the Arts and Culture), which awarded $15 and $20 thousand-dollar unrestricted […]
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Some exhibits beg the visitor to simply bathe in their glory, at least as a starting point, but also as an ongoing experience. They inspire a physical reaction of awe: you just want to stand in their presence and gaze, and take it in like the sun. The Cleveland Museum of Art and the Toledo Museum of Art each have […]
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On the heels of reports of a $31 million economic impact from its first go-round, FRONT has named its co-artistic directors for the second, 2021 iteration iteration of the international, Cleveland triennial for contemporary art. A Press release follows: CLEVELAND: Prem Krishnamurthy and Tina Kukielski have been named Co-Artistic Directors for the second edition of FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for […]
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