Martha Cooper was one of the early documentarians of New York graffiti. Her 1984 book with Henry Chalfant, Subway Art, ranks alongside Jon Naar and Norman Mailer’s seminal 1974 volume The Faith of Graffiti as one of the primary records of the then-nascent form. We bring her up now because in March, the Cleveland International Film Festival will screen the Selina Miles documentary […]
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The painting of portraits has a long and storied history. For hundreds of years, artists have sought to capture likenesses on canvas. In a post-postmodern world, portraiture still has a role to play, but what is it exactly? In a world of selfie sticks and Instagram filters, people still seek out traditional painted portraits, but the status of these paintings […]
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Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by John “Derf” Backderf is a graphic novelization of the four days leading up to the Kent State Massacre of May 4, 1970, where bystanders were shot by the Ohio National Guard, which had been called upon to suppress student protests of the war in Vietnam. Derf is a storied underground comic-book artist, but this will […]
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I was surprised by Louis B. Burroughs’ works on canvas, after seeing photographs of a few of them in catalogs and on the painter’s website. I knew they were big, but it’s hard to imagine the impact of a large painting in real space. Several mural-like compositions, each ten and twelve feet long, were displayed down one side of the […]
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Now that he’s retired, David King has time to get to work. For three decades, King taught art in Chagrin Falls schools. He is proud of his students. “They make me look good,” he says of them. And he puts his money where his mouth is: Throughout his Cleveland Heights home, he’s hung works by Chagrin Falls graduates who’ve gone […]
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Our series on art and disability has discussed inclusion in the arts, accessibility in the Cleveland scene, and the historical disability stories hiding in plain view at the Cleveland Museum of Art. This fourth (and final) article features the voices and artwork of local disabled artists we’ve had the honor of speaking with. Artists with disabilities exist at every level […]
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A sculptor works not only to shape a chunk of stone, but also to soften the terrible hardness of the world, downshifting the deeps of time and space toward human understanding. Chappelle Letman Jr., an African American artist born in Brooklyn, New York, who became totally blind when he was 41 years old, went on in the remaining three decades […]
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Your easy, chronological guide to exhibits and opportunities at Northeast Ohio galleries, studios and museums in the next few months. More information about many of these exhibits can be found elsewhere in the pages of CAN. THROUGH MARCH 14 7th National Collegiate Handmade Paper Triennial MORGAN CONSERVATORY THROUGH MARCH 15 The Distance of the Moon AKRON ART MUSEUM THROUGH MARCH […]
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Los más recientes acontecimientos, sobre todo los relacionados con la crisis migratoria de los últimos meses en nuestro país, han provocado gran confusión respecto al Censo poblacional 2020, un esfuerzo que ocurre una vez cada década para contar a todas las personas de los Estados Unidos, no solo a los ciudadanos, sino a cualquiera que viva acá. Los fondos federales […]
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Recent events including changing immigration policies have led to significant confusion surrounding the 2020 Census, which is a once-in-a-decade effort to count all the people living in the United States—not all the citizens, but all the people living here. Both congressional representation and federal funding for a range of social programs are pegged to the number of inhabitants. And Cleveland […]
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