The sewer district with a famous sense of humor turns to an old-school format for a fresh take on the life-giving resource we all love. We Clevelanders take a lot of guff, but we’re also tough. We’ve learned that a heaping side order of humor is in order when the chips are down or, in this case, when the unmentionables […]
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It is all but impossible to capture Ed Raffel’s work, unless you’re standing directly in front of it. When you do, his work will capture you. It will capture you honestly. It will capture you and several dozen of your twins, even if you have no siblings. It will capture you upside down, methodically fragmented, and sometimes sharing the space […]
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A line of wind turbines traces perfect circles in the distance. For many of us, the scene borders on romantic: Clean fresh wind rotates graceful blades, then a network of magical machines and wires transforms this gift from Mother Nature into fuel that powers everything from our electronic devices to life saving medical equipment. As usual, it comes at a […]
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Laundry. Whether the word evokes dazzling white sheets billowing along a clothesline or a basket brimming with unmentionables, the uniquely human task is as universal as it is mundane. However it’s perceived, the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is elevating the humble work of washing and ironing with Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism. “The exhibition looks at […]
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The request landed back in February. “Hi Erin,” wrote Tim Herron, cofounder of the Pretentious Cleveland Portrait Artists (PCPA), “I am always on the lookout for interesting models.” He added the sketch group was scheduling pretty far out, into August. I blinked at the screen for a minute or two amid a vague feeling of disbelief. Me? Sit for a […]
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Back in February CAN Blog reported on the disappearance of Loren Naji’s public art installation, “They Have Landed,” an eight-foot orb constructed primarily of plywood. “For more than 10 years, Loren Naji’s iconic sculpture ‘They Have Landed’ sat politely on a slip of greenspace in front of the West 25th RTA station, but now it’s gone,” noted our previous coverage. The removal was […]
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On a Tuesday evening in March 1964, two New York police detectives stormed into the New Bowery Theater in the city’s Lower East Side and seized a number of items, including reels of an avant-garde film, Flaming Creatures. Produced the previous year by experimental film pioneer Jack Smith, the forty-minute effort included nudity, transsexuality, and sexual situations. Just two months […]
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For more than 10 years, Loren Naji’s iconic sculpture “They Have Landed” sat politely on a slip of greenspace in front of the West 25th RTA station, but now it’s gone. “They just threw it away,” said Naji during a Feb. 16 phone interview. “Can you imagine?” Its role as public art was clear: The sculpture was marked with a […]
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When the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) went looking for a new president on the heels of Grafton Nunes’ retirement, they found the ultimate candidate in their own house, but Kathryn Heidemann only landed there after a life lived on the world stage. The Detroit native grew up at points across the globe courtesy of her father’s career with Jeep […]
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With the pledge of a remarkable gift, the long-awanted, much-anticipated Reverend Albert Wagner Museum is set to become reality in September, 2023. At age fifty in the mid-1970s, the Reverend Albert Wagner experienced an epiphany during which an old board splattered with house paint spoke to him and delivered what would become his lifelong mantra: “God is going to plant […]
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