How do we know the world? How do we know how we belong? There are histories that are written and sometimes we tell ourselves that is all there is to know, provided, of course, that the history satisfies. If it is close but doesn’t quite satisfy, we fuss with it. This is a type of game—writing and rewriting history to […]
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The Cleveland School is an umbrella under which many artists of this region have flourished for more than a hundred years. Certainly the two or three decades following the turn of the twentieth century marked a near zenith in production and virtuosity. Marsden Hartley, Abel Warshawsky, William Zorach, William Sommer and Charles Burchfield are already famous names from the period. […]
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Various Small Fires borrows its name from artist Ed Ruscha’s conceptual book, Various Small Fires, self-published in 1964. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, he created a series of small photo-conceptual artist’s books which featured mundane subjects and photographs of fires with deadpan titles. The Various Small Fires exhibition is inspired by the liminal moments of the everyday that are ignited […]
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Bringing art to everyone by breaking down barriers is at the core of Zygote’s mission. The Affordable Print Fair: Collecting 101 centers that mission by creating opportunities for emerging artists to exhibit their work, and by offering new collectors an affordable way to acquire art. “This exhibition and the accompanying free, public programs will demonstrate that print collecting is not […]
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There are songs sung by women across time and place, never written down, never performed in public. They hang, shimmering, inside a moment so particular yet so universal that their chords pluck at the longing inside us all, no matter who we are or where we find ourselves. Welcome to Mother, I Am Compelled To Leave / اماّّں میں تو […]
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The phrase “preaching to the choir” is made for moments like this: CAN Journal’s endorsement in favor of Cuyahoga County’s cigarette tax for the arts might seem completely unnecessary. Our readers are interested in art and artists, and the organizations that support them, and Collective Arts Network (CAN) has benefitted directly from the tax through general operating support for the […]
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Through the years, this quarterly column traces a narrative of Cleveland art. It strings together major events like the COVID-19 pandemic and local galleries’ responses to the Black Lives Matter movement, Cleveland’s art triennials, art sector news and exhibits, all highlighted in our current stories. The arc of Cleveland’s art history is especially prominent as we approach Summer 2024, and […]
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Put something on repeat and loop it, and it takes on a shape of its own, becoming another entire entity in and of itself. It’s pattern’s older, louder cousin: one who also may travel under the name Persistence of Vision—the title of Kasumi’s first retrospective on view at Summit Artspace, July 12 through September 14. “Life is born of random […]
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Imagine a turbine always in motion; it spins quietly and eternally in the background, barely humming, gathering energy and transforming it into something else. It’s a sort of mechanical alchemy: a cool, perpetual transmogrifier that harnesses power from one source and outputs something completely different. Welcome to Allison Bogard Hall’s creative process. For the past eighteen months, Hall has immersed […]
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The last thing artist, activist, and creative director Antwoine Washington expected at the end of the fall semester of Pressing Matters—an afterschool art program at Zygote Press—was to give financial management advice to a group of eager teenagers. And yet, it is precisely this sort of real-life problem-solving that is at the core of this unusual youth program. Pressing Matters […]
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