Are you an artist? Do you need a review? As part of her long-running performance, the “60wrd/min art critic,” Lori Waxman will be at ATNSC in Cleveland, writing short reviews for any Cleveland-based artist who wants one from May 22-24, 2020. Lori Waxman has been the primary art critic for the Chicago Tribune for the past decade. She is a […]
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Pulled from the permanent collection of ARTneo, Oppositions explores the contrasting styles of two prominent Cleveland artist groups in the early twentieth century. Portraits, still lifes, and landscapes illustrate the difference between the avant-garde and traditional approaches to creating art. The rivaling groups were formed to both challenge and uphold artistic traditions. The Secessionists, established in 1911, included Henry Keller, […]
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This spring, the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve welcomes the return of its Annual Members’ Exhibition, featuring over 100 pieces by its professional-level member artists, hung salon-style in the main gallery. The show presents an exciting diversity of voices and media, as each artist is able to contribute one original work under 24 inches for display. In years past, submissions […]
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A dynamic chemistry always results when artists develop curriculum that addresses VOS/SEL standards through thoughtful projects and challenging ideas. Combine this with student responses, their engagement and growth, and powerful reactions occur. This past fall, Ron Shelton combined education about the global ramifications of plastics with hat and jacket-making projects. Denison Elementary third graders learned how to work with wire […]
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ELIAS SIME: TIGHTROPE Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries February 29-May 24 Elias Sime: Tightrope, the first major traveling survey dedicated to the Ethiopian artist’s work, features numerous large-scale tableaus. From afar, these works give the appearance of abstract paintings. However, upon closer inspection, one sees these color-block compositions are assembled from unexpected materials like motherboards, buttons and electrical wire. First […]
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CAN is a mission-driven non-profit organization providing a collective voice for–and accessible, high-quality reporting and commentary on–the visual arts in Northeast Ohio. Since CAN’s first organizational meetings in 2011, CAN Journal and the website CANjournal.org have become critical pieces of Northeast Ohio arts infrastructure. We work for the success of the entire visual art sector in Northeast Ohio. CAN produces: […]
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Claudio Orso’s Panta Rhei, on view at the Bostwick Design Art Initiative through March 10, is a big exhibit that resonates beyond its walls. It surveys some of the prolific artist’s most important work of the last half-decade or so, representing two aspects of his career: on the one hand, there are larger-than-life masks, costumes, and puppet figures made for […]
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“hush” is a tender syllable, beginning as an exhalation and ending with an onomatopoeic sound, like lips closing for a kiss. Yet like so many sentimental things, the word can also cast a somber shadow, hinting that all breathing will finally stop. When ceramicist Kimberly Chapman uses it as the title of her current show at the McDonough Museum in […]
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What do you do with rage, sadness, or grief? Where do you put these feelings? What do you do with that hole left from loss? The exhibition Constructed Answer, at Kent State University, is a curation of answers. This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the May 4 shootings at KSU. The tragedy left four students dead and nine injured […]
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Back in September of 2018, Markwald legally changed his name to Max, and began painting large self-portraits documenting his gender transition. The tall vertical canvases are identical in size, impressively painted, and are all titled simply for the month they were created. Several of them are currently on view at BAYarts, in a new show titled “Skin” (until March 6), […]
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