Cleveland is a city buoyed and inspired by a workforce of artists We have always contended that art is a part of public discourse, and not just the writing and conversation about art, but the art itself. It’s not merely decorative, though it can be. It is not merely promotional, though it can do that, too. Rather, by presenting the […]
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Cleveland Museum of Art Through December 2 Commissioned by FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art Billboards suck. That was the first thing I thought about when I read Cleveland native Allen Ruppersberg (born 1944) was paying homage to his hometown in his new body of work commissioned by FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, titled Then and Now. […]
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Whether or not many people, local or otherwise, actually saw any of the works and projects completed by its 111 artists, or visited some (or even none) of its 26 sites in Cleveland, Akron, and Oberlin, FRONT Triennial was a big deal. It succeeded in putting our region decisively on any map of international twenty-first century art events. Ambitious planners […]
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Over the summer of 2018, there arose a contentious legal dispute between two Cleveland-trained artists, Richard VanOver and Derek Hess, which has of late reached a settlement. VanOver, a graduate from the Cleveland Institute of Art who is currently active in his original home of Buffalo, New York, sought compensation deriving from the online sale of statuettes of Suicide Note, […]
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Commissioned in bulk, murals have recently proliferated around Cleveland At least one thing is happening very fast at City Hall: October 19, Mayor Frank Jackson’s office announced an extraordinary opportunity for a Cleveland artist—to help celebrate the tenth anniversary of our sister city relationship with Rouen, France, by traveling there to paint a large mural, eighty feet long by […]
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The Old Brooklyn Community Elementary School no longer has an art teacher. Sadly, such is the case at many area schools—art is one of the first things cut in high-need, high-poverty, urban school districts facing difficult budget decisions. For nearly twenty years, the Art House in historic Brooklyn Centre, a nonprofit arts center, has tried to fill that gap by […]
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Darice: In inviting me to participate in the Full Fathom Five exhibit at Progressive, did you see a connection in our work, and where did that interest come in? Barry: I was moved by a lot of [what] you were posting on social media, and seeing your work at Bill Busta’s gallery. I was really curious. I also felt that […]
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Your easy, chronological guide to what Northeast Ohio galleries and museums have coming up in the next few months. More information about many of these exhibits can be found elsewhere in the pages of CAN. THROUGH NOVEMBER 24 I Scarce Can Take It In The four artists in this show fall in the general category of “outsider” artists, though each […]
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If you are a holiday gift giver, if your shopping trips are like curatorial experiences, if you like giving original, one-of-a-kind gifts, if you want to boost the local economy and support artists directly, you have never had more options. Northeast Ohio has a multitude of holiday markets, and there is at least one convenient to every neighborhood. Check websites […]
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A Tough Interrogation M. Carmen Lane is a two-spirit African-American and Haudenosaunee (Mohawk/Tuscarora) artist, cultural worker, poet, popular educator and consultant living in Kahyonhá:ke (Cleveland, Ohio). Carmen is a part of the Cleveland Foundation’s Creative Fusion Data Art cohort. We talked about their influences, what drives them, and the artist’s work in A Color Removed, an exhibition curated by Michael […]
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