Maybe this is a good time to talk. Just over 75 percent of the people who cast ballots in Cuyahoga County in November voted in favor of renewed public support of the arts and culture through its 30 cent per pack tax on cigarettes. That’s an overwhelming number. And a few months earlier, when the County Council discussed putting the […]
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Nothing could be more emblematic of the churn on Cleveland’s art-walking scene than the coincidence of the Little Italy and Tremont art walks one Friday in October. Both neighborhoods once were the edgy hot spots of the Cleveland art scene. Each of them once defined the term “Art Walk” in Cleveland, and together they are responsible for establishing here the idea that artists […]
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As noted in a previous issue of CAN, ARTneo—which could colloquially be described as the Museum of Northeast Ohio art—has recently been through significant changes in its staff, board, and even its location. At its 2015 benefit, the organization recognized the contributions of scholar, curator, and professor Henry Adams, who has written extensively on American art, including art of Northeast […]
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It all started on Twitter, of course. A disturbed visitor to a London museum wrote: “I hope the @metpoliceuk deal with the masked balaclava ‘protestors’ in the national portrait gallery #London bloody terrifying :-(“. This was posted moments after a disturbance on the afternoon of July 5, and the event was made even more unnerving by its proximity to the […]
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Artist Kim Schoel remembers her friend and colleague Roy Bigler as a constructive critic, who always strived to learn from others’ work and seek understanding. “He was one of those rare people who would always find something positive to say. He was always respectful and curious,” Schoel said. Bigler passed away in March of 2014, aged 58 years old. Since […]
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Deb Lawrence rents two spaces at the historic Murray Hill School in Cleveland’s Little Italy arts district. One of these is her new gallery business, tucked away in a sunlit room that used to be the school nurse’s office. Called NOCA (No Ordinary Contemporary Art space), it earns its name equally by its transitional perch on a landing between floors, […]
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“In the eyes of posterity, the success of the United States as a civilized society will be largely judged by the creative activities of its citizens in art, architecture, literature, music …” This was a statement of the President’s Commission on National Goals, established by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1960. The Commission’s work eventually led to the creation of the […]
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The extensive array of artwork by Clarence Carter now on exhibit at Wolf’s Gallery on Larchmere provides an eye-opening, if not frankly revisionist, experience of a painter we thought we knew. Wolf’s is showcasing work from all phases of the Cleveland School artist’s career, and will soon put on view a trove of more than 300 of Carter’s never-before-exhibited […]
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Events Your easy, chronological, not-quite-comprehensive guide to what Northeast Ohio galleries and Museums have coming up in the next few months. More information about many of these shows can be found on preceding CAN member pages. Enjoy the shows! Continuing Through September 27 Staged Akron Art Museum through October 15 Migration Eastman Reading Garden Cleveland Public Library Through October 16 […]
Read moreDevelopment and land-use policies that favor newness over reuse drive Corrie Slawson to fantasize alternative realities for neighborhoods and places that were once considered to be magnificent but are now under appreciated. She responds by building macro and microscopic landscapes on paper, combining printed versions of pictures she takes during day to day travels. Her works on paper integrate screen […]
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