It’s not the May Show, but the Cleveland Museum of Art did not beat around the bush in announcing Lake Effect—a new juried exhibition of contemporary art of Northeast Ohio, to be produced by the Museum this year at Transformer Station. In fact the Museum says directly, “Drawing inspiration from the museum’s historic May Show—an annual exhibition that for decades […]
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Walking into The Sculpture Center’s largest gallery a few weeks ago, I was startled by the clear sightline to a monumental, bare-chested Queen Victoria. She looks proudly over the exhibition space as if it were her colonial domain, full skirts belying a row of burdened, black feet. The black bodies that hold this heavy cast body upright are lined up […]
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Cleveland State University has taken a significant step toward restoring its place on the Cleveland art scene—both in providing what gallery director Kendall Christian called a “working classroom” for art students, and as a connection to the region’s art community at large: on January 7, the university’s Request for Qualifications for an architect to provide design services for a new […]
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In Cleveland, the highest recognition that an artist can receive is the Cleveland Arts Prize in Visual Arts. The Prize has been awarded for 65 years, since 1961. The Prize is awarded in other disciplines too – Music, Design, Literature, Dance – and other people are recognized for their service to the arts in our region. But it has always […]
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CAN has never done a proper annual report. We’re not starting now. But at the end of the year, it certainly makes sense to reflect a bit on what has happened in the last 12 months—what we’ve done, what we’ve cared about, what we’ve seen. It’s been a year of turning points. We’re not going to talk about the horror […]
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The Cleveland Museum of Art’s exhibition Renaissance to Runway: The Enduring Italian Houses reads less like a conventional museum experience than an imagined passage through the studio of an Italian fashion house. One readily envisions sumptuous textiles transformed into exquisite garments and ensembles, animated by mannequins and staged against the backdrop of Old Master paintings. Forgoing heavy-handed interpretive framing, Associate […]
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It’s become tradition at the end of each year for CAN to look back on which posts from the last twelve months were most-read. We’ve got a few rules: it’s limited to stories published within the calendar year, excludes any of CAN’s own announcements, and excludes “listicles.” But apart from that, the year-end tradition shows you unfiltered popularity. It’s not […]
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Ephemera is a part of visual culture we often forget in the art world, but which can both evoke and document an era as strongly as music and fashion. Nothing says San Francisco in the ‘60s like a Wes Wilson poster for a concert at the Filmore. Except for what collectors put aside, the overwhelming majority of posters and fliers […]
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When someone looks at FRAGILE/HANDLE WITH CARE, on view at Negative Space Gallery, an inescapable truth is unearthed, one that all of us need to confront: that being fragile is not a weakness, but a human condition. Artist Joanie Deveney, AKA Joan of Art, created the exhibition through almost a year’s worth of accumulated photographs of friends, family and strangers […]
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The CAP Show, on view December 12 – January 31 at Bostwick Design Art Initiative Gallery, is the first opportunity since 2009 to see works by generations of visual arts winners of the Cleveland Arts Prize all in one space. Curated by gallerist and Cleveland Arts Prize board member Michael Weil and H. Scott Westover, who is curator of the […]
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