CAN Journal Summer 2023: Nothing Artificial

While we were in the early stages of choosing stories for the Summer 2023 issue of CAN Journal, the prospect of content generated by artificial intelligence was all the rage in media and social media. As an experiment, I considered illustrating the phenomenon by publishing a story generated via AI. How would artificial intelligence navigate the world of regional art, […]

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Meet the US Artists of the 2023 Venice Biennale Architettura

As this issue of CAN goes to press, curators Tizziana Baldenebro of SPACES and Lauren Leving of moCa Cleveland were on the verge of departure for Italy, where they would oversee the installation of Everlasting Plastics, the exhibition they have built for the US Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Biennale Architettura. Their proposal, via Cleveland-based SPACES Gallery, was chosen by […]

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The Key Ingredient: Cleveland Public Library hires first-ever Director of Art and Culture

With an extensive collection of WPA prints, a long record of commissioning art installations and exhibits at the main library, as well as murals at its branches around the city, plus important collections of artist books, art catalogs, art objects, maps, and even chess sets, and with the Lockwood Thompson fund specifically supporting art programming, the Cleveland Public Library system […]

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Nobody’s Baby: Morgan Bukovec’s are you on the menu? Series Needles Service Industry Sexism

Morgan Bukovec has been involved in the service industry on and off since she was fifteen—including working the counter at Rudy’s Quality Meats, her grandfather’s butcher shop in Willowick. But it was in the bar and restaurant biz as a server and bartender—working five days a week and sometimes pulling double-shifts—that she was put through the grinder of sexism, misogyny, […]

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Former CMA Curator Key Jo Lee Has a New Book, and a New Role at the Museum of the African Diaspora

I had the pleasure of sitting with Key Jo Lee, newly-appointed chief curator at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MOAD) in San Francisco, to discuss her time at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA); her upcoming book Perceptual Drift, Black Art, and an Ethics of Looking; and the way museum curation might evolve. In her transition to MOAD, Cleveland’s […]

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No Time to Waste: Parade the Circle Lead Artist Hector Castellanos Lara Speaks of Dragon Flies

Parade the Circle—the Cleveland Museum of Art celebration of community and creativity, with its iconic floats created by community groups and international artists, its stilt walkers, its festival village, and crowds in the tens of thousands—returns from its pandemic hiatus in 2023, for the first time since 2019. In this comeback year, the museum has named Hector Castellanos Lara as […]

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Sin tiempo que perder: Héctor Castellanos Lara, principal artista de Parade de Circle, nos habla de las libélulas.

Entrevista Traducido por Damaris Puñales-Alpízar Parade the Circle – la celebración comunitaria de la creatividad que tradicionalmente organiza el Museo de Arte de Cleveland, regresa por primera vez desde 2019 –luego de una pausa causada por la pandemia-, con sus icónicas carrozas diseñadas por artistas locales e internacionales, personas en zancos, fiesta y miles de participantes. Para este regreso, el […]

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Joe and Elaine Kisvardi Collect Cleveland School Artists as Friends, Too

Joe Kisvardi’s collection of Cleveland School artworks comes with a distinctive provenance: He and his wife, Elaine, shared as much or more time enjoying their close friendships with the artists as they did admiring their art in galleries. After serving in the US Marines from 1964 to 1968 during the Vietnam War, Kisvardi returned to Cleveland. His family lived in […]

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Photo Poets: Kenyatta Crisp

Kenyatta Crisp began his studies in art & photography back in 2012. Over the years, he has developed a keen eye for portrait photography and is deemed a fine artist with all curations under 28KaratBlack. His work reflects Black/African American art culture and the representation of Black joy and happiness in the likeness of darkness and despair. His photobook, Divine, […]

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Interdependence & Emergence: Eva Kwong at ARTneo

Eva Kwong has been captivated by the invisible proliferation of microbes since she was five years old. About once a month, her mother would disinfect Eva and her four siblings by popping them into a bathtub full of Dettol (a disinfectant with international popularity) where they would play all afternoon. “My mother thought this was a miracle product—the kitchen, the […]

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