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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As I walked through Gary Erbe: Magical World at the Butler Institute of American Art, it was immediately evident that his major influence is Pablo Picasso, emulating many of the modern master’s compositions in several paintings included in the exhibition. Yet nowhere in Gary T. Erbe’s biography or in prior exhibition reviews do the artist or scholars acknowledge Picasso, despite […]
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When Raheleh Mohammad got word that power was out at Cool Water Dry Goods in Tremont just hours before the scheduled opening of her show during the March Walkabout, it would have been easy enough to re-schedule. The staff at the shop was supportive. But Raheleh had spoken with her mother earlier in the day: her mother had called to […]
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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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People may not consider the possibility of their cotton shirt serving as an outlet of creative expression, but the intricacies of fiber art become very clear when viewing the works shown in Layers, currently on view at the Praxis Fiber Workshop. Each artist in the exhibition is a member of the Art Cloth Network (ACN): a nationally recognized group led […]
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“Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it,possibly without claiming it, she stands up for all women.”Maya Angelou At From WOMAN19, exhibiting at The Beth K. Stocker Art Gallery, the energies of the divine feminine are radiant and loud, as the artists pour their heart and soul into the pieces surrounding us. The exhibition gathers art “created […]
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Invoked repeatedly, especially by political figures from Calvin Coolidge to Barack Obama, the encouragement to press on regardless of the odds or obstacles has been a part of military campaigns and movements for democracy and every kind of rights, probably since the first person recognized the need for tenacity to overcome any challenge. In the shadow of the nation’s politics, […]
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s remarkable speech during the January 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland called on the “middle powers” to collaborate for economic and military strength to counterbalance the might-makes-right attitude of superpowers, recently laid bare by the talk and behavior of US President Donald Trump. Carney acknowledged the outsized force of the US, and the historically […]
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A cornerstone of Cleveland’s art scene, SPACES–the artists’ residency center and exhibition space in Ohio City–goes into 2026 with new leadership. The organization has a rich and storied history of showing local and global artists, and a deep commitment to experimentation as a historically artist-run space. SPACES received wide recognition during the FRONT Triennial in 2018 and 2022 under the […]
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Each year, IngenuityFest creates an environment that welcomes the strange, encourages experimentation, and builds Cleveland’s creative future in real time, one immersive installation/performance/improbable idea by one. After ten years of leadership during which she brought the festival to its year-round home at 5401 Hamilton Avenue, Emily Appelbaum has moved on, accepting a position in San Francisco. Now the organization embarks […]
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