No Exit Rediscovers the Cleveland School

Cleveland has always known how to keep its secrets under smoggy, overcast skies. While New York thundered through the Jazz Age and Paris shimmered at the turn of the twentieth century, an extraordinary group of artists was thriving along the Cuyahoga — painters, poets, and provocateurs bound together by immigrant ambition and industrial grit, forming clubs, staging masked balls scandalous […]

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The Maruja Limón Sextet hits the CMA

Maruja Limón is a Barcelona-based sextet forging their own path through flamenco, pop, Latin, rumba, and electronic experimentation. Since their debut album Más de ti (2018) — named one of the best Spanish records of the year — they’ve appeared on festival stages across Europe and Morocco, earned a Billboard feature, and most recently, a U.S. tour performing at Lincoln […]

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Steve Parker’s Fight Song, at SPACES

CAN asked Paul Cox—writer, percussionist, former Dean of Creative Arts at Tri-C, lecturer/visiting assistant prof. of Music at Oberlin College and Case Western Reserve University, and even before that Associate Director of Performing Arts at the Cleveland Museum of Art—to visit and write about Steve Parker’s Fight Song, on view through April 18. –Ed. So, I crossed Detroit and walked […]

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