ARTmeow: The Cool Cats of Cleveland With over 100 years of cats by Cleveland area artists on display, ARTmeow explores the cat’s iconic role of artistic muse. With cat memes and animated gifs ruling the internet, it’s a good time to reflect on how these feline friends have impacted the history of art. ARTmeow not only looks at the past […]
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The last few months have been busy! Denison fourth-graders constructed large fish, based on what they had learned about Lake Erie’s aquatic population and personal experiences of Cleveland. During our second Annual ABC (Artists+Bowls+Chili) Chili Cook-Off the studio was packed with people enjoying chili samplers. Nine contenders competed against last year’s winner: “Goya and the Gringo.” “Just Andy” rose to […]
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Serial Intent Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries June 3 – September 10, 2017 Artists sometimes create works of art that are meant to be viewed as isolated, individual masterpieces. They also make artwork with Serial Intent. As we experience the world in motion and over time, so too do serial artworks ask to be viewed one after another. While they […]
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The Artists Archives of the Western Reserve (AAWR) is pleased to announce its upcoming Summer exhibition, NewCelle, featuring the collaborative drawings of Archived Artist Bea Mitchell, John Jackson, Ed Mieczkowski and Achala Wali. NewCelle formed as a group in 1998 with the purpose of “revitalizing drawing in the light of the coming new Millennium.” Influenced by the Surrealists’ technique […]
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Octavofest, Northeast Ohio’s celebration of book and paper arts is back for 2017, bigger and better than ever. This year’s program adds new partners, and extends its activities throughout the year, many reflecting this year’s theme: celebrating the art of children’s books. Emily Martin of the Naughty Dog Press will make several presentations at Cleveland State University (CSU) and Oberlin […]
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In contrast to tweet-driven instant history, the spineless communications backbone of the first 100 days of the Trump administration, Yoko Inoue is interested in taking a longer, deeper look at certain affairs. Her own “Tea Taste Democracy and Upside-Down Objects” exhibit at SPACES that runs concurrently with “The First 100+ Days” takes a look at the last 80+ years of […]
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“100 days, 100 nights / To know a man’s heart” sang the late, great Sharon Jones, fitting her voice tightly against the pounding retro-soul sound of The Dap Kings. Of course, when that hit song was first recorded almost a decade ago Donald Trump wasn’t yet known as a political heavy-hitter. But on the evening of November 8, 2016 Sharon […]
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It is a rare exhibition that shocks viewers into remembering just what art is capable of. Charles Kanwischer’s Marking Time at Shaheen Gallery is such a show. It absolutely must be seen in person to appreciate. Now in its last week on display, Marking Time features about twenty of Kanwischer’s graphite drawings of construction sites, suburban homes, and woodlands. The […]
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At some point pop history will pick itself up and move beyond robots and rayguns, Mayberry, Dragnet, and the stylized, beaming consumption of toothpaste and toasters. But even in 2017 those cold war era tropes retain an oddly timeless value as currency of the imagination, embedded (however cynically or sarcastically) in the world marketplace of profit and power. Long outmoded […]
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“I like making art that makes people laugh,” says Grace Frank in her Lakewood studio, as I’m contemplating a painting of an ice cream cone lounging on a car. It’s great. Then she explains that it was a gift for her boyfriend, and is a self-portrait – inspired by their frequent trips to get ice cream. Even better. Frank has […]
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