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Tethered: Bernadette Glorioso and Dott Schneider, at the Hildebrandt

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In their artist statement, Bernadette Glorioso and Dott Schneider explain Tethered as “a conversation about breaking free from restrictions and expectations,” and as collaboration between two artists who met earlier this year while installing work in a group exhibition. The new show of paintings–done in oil or mixed media on canvas, in varying square or rectangular dimensions–is not experimental in […]

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CAN Journal Announces Archiving Partnerships

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Now in its second decade, Collective Arts Network is proud to announce archiving partnerships with five of Northeast Ohio’s most respected libraries and collecting institutions: The Cleveland Museum of Art Ingalls Library, Case Western Reserve University Kelvin Smith Library, Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland Institute of Art’s Jessica R. Gund Memorial Library, and Artists Archives of the Western Reserve. The project […]

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Context Fine Art debuts with Shapes of Abstraction: Nine Women Artists

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Context Fine Art, the new gallery located on the third floor of 78th Street Studios, premiered in September with Shapes of Abstraction: Nine Women Artists. A partnership between artist Justin Brennan and art historian Christopher Richards, Context is a space for abstract art to be considered and reconsidered in thought-provoking configurations. This exhibition highlights Context’s promising potential as a smart, […]

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Take Cover

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Planning for the CAN Journal Archive party has us looking back through the years at art on the cover of every issue of CAN Journal. The cover of any publication is an iconic space, as Shel Silverstein and Dr. Hook noted about Rolling Stone, and all the more so for a quarterly magazine about art. In just under 12 years, […]

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Degas at CMA: Elevating the Laundress

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Laundry. Whether the word evokes dazzling white sheets billowing along a clothesline or a basket brimming with unmentionables, the uniquely human task is as universal as it is mundane. However it’s perceived, the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is elevating the humble work of washing and ironing with Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism. “The exhibition looks at […]

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Faysal Altunbozar’s Gardens, at SPACES

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Faysal Altunbozar’s The gardens of Adonis are cultivated for the sake of flowers, not fruit (on view at SPACES Oracle Gallery, August 25 – October 20, 2023) is an impeccably-installed body of sculpture that re-shape the gallery in which it is hung. The visual aesthetic is sterile, clean, and manufactured, yet the sound component connects each viewer’s body, through sound […]

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Vivica Satterwhite: F is for Freedom, at SPACES–Freedom is Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose

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In 1982 no one I knew could stop listening to Prince’s iconic record celebrating the apocalypse, 1999. The record’s title song reminded us in robotic-alien voice that no harm would come, “Don’t-worry-I-won’t-hurt-you-I-only-want-you-to-have-some-fun.” This sense of dancing on the grave of white patriarchal capitalism is at the heart of Vivica Satterwhite’s installation in Toby’s Vault at SPACES (on view through October […]

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