“If the world is turned upside down, the truth will become a lie.” – Guy Debord, 1967 “The image always gets the last word.” – Roland Barthes, c. 1975 “DEGENERATE! Hitler’s War on Modern Art” explores the ways in which Der Fuhrer’s Nazi party used modern art as a vehicle to sway public opinion, and the subsequent assault on artists […]
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If we don’t recognize our ancestors, we don’t know who we are. Stories and histories are the anchors of resilience in a turbulent river that can feel like a whirlpool. In Queer Histories, a collaborative exhibit between the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland and Zygote Press, tributes to and calls to action from the queer community resonate through the […]
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In several scenes in the film Como agua para chocolate[1] (Alfonso Arau, 1992, based on the book of the same name by Laura Esquivel), the De la Garza sisters cross the border between Mexico and the United States, like those who cross the street: without so much drama or paperwork. They cross for a variety of reasons: They go to […]
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En más de una escena de la película Como agua para chocolate[1] (Alfonso Arau, 1992), basada en el libro homónimo de Laura Esquivel, las hermanas De la Garza cruzan, por diferentes motivos, la frontera entre México y los Estados Unidos, como quien cruza la calle: sin tanto drama ni papeleo. Van a visitar al Dr. Brown, quien vive en la […]
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Silent and two-dimensional, paintings speak languages we have long forgotten—the dialects we once knew, the tongues of our childhood, the vernacular of our most recent loss. On view at HEDGE through October 26, Sarah Curry’s newest body of work, Common Threads, presents the amorphous space between then and now, what once was and what is today. The exhibition lays out […]
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Glass, mirrors, light bulbs and neon tubes are media that are most often included in an exhibit with a variety of other mediums — not usually as the main focus of an exhibit. Further, most often neon is associated with text and it’s rare to see a exhibit that focuses on its ability to communicate concepts through light, form and color […]
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Next week should be busy for the Coventry PEACE Campus, the former Coventry school-turned-arts-hive, the preservation of which has become a rallying point for East Side creatives. Artful, representing individual artists and their studios, along with 11 other tenants, want CPC to remain where it is. The University Heights-Cleveland Heights Library Board, which owns the building, wants CPC out, claiming […]
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Now that FRONT and CAN Triennial both have ceased operation, what is—or could be–Cleveland’s emblematic arts festival, the one that could contribute to the brand of the city beyond its immediate surroundings, and could draw visitors to town for an iconic experience? I mean, holding aside the constant presence of a world class orchestra and art museum constantly presenting internationally […]
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“Breading” is not a word often associated with artistic technique. And neither are oatmeal or quinoa often cited as media for use in painting or sculpture. Nonetheless, those have been central to Jonah Jacobs’ abstract sculptural practice for 19 years. And he’s been in a lot of group shows and juried shows, and even won a lot of prizes, including […]
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The force of creativity pushes through the cracks that occur in the daily. Sometimes it looks like self-sufficiency: homegrown, repurposed, often awkward yet surprisingly stunning. Sometimes it beckons like light on water glimpsed out of the corner of the eye. Sometimes it’s the tenacity of the weed through the concrete, and doing the work on the regular. The creative force […]
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