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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The Broommaker, a three-week residency with Cleveland native, now Kentucky-based artist Hunter Elliott, is centered on brooms, from cultivating the grassy broomcorn plant onsite at SHED Projects, to harvesting and processing it, and—currently, creating stunning works of art. Elliott’s artistic practice is rooted in sculpture and printmaking, as he earned a BFA at Kent State University more than 10 years […]
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In a single room at the Hildebrandt Building, Sh’Bang Fest presents 91 works from 60 artists crowding the walls salon-style, with pedestalled 3D and textile works hung off of mannequins that stood throughout. There are no labels, aside from a number sticker next to each piece, corresponding to the artist and their social media Linktree. There is no brochure or […]
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“The mind of the man [sic] who dreams is fully satisfied by what happens to him. The agonizing question of possibility is no longer pertinent… fly faster, love to your heart’s content. And if you should die, are you not certain of reawaking among the dead?” – André Breton, Manifestos of Surrealism, 1924 Doubting Thomas Gallery turned 25 in October, […]
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Humans coexist with the natural world and benefit from its abundant resources. From the soil all creatures emerge and will return in due course. It is the interconnectedness of life which inspires Debra Sue Solecki in her latest exhibition, Nature’s Networks: A Visual Exploration of Mycelium. By way of a complex mixture of writing, pasted historical photography and realistic paintings […]
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