Cleveland has always known how to keep its secrets under smoggy, overcast skies. While New York thundered through the Jazz Age and Paris shimmered at the turn of the twentieth century, an extraordinary group of artists was thriving along the Cuyahoga — painters, poets, and provocateurs bound together by immigrant ambition and industrial grit, forming clubs, staging masked balls scandalous […]
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As I walked through Gary Erbe: Magical World at the Butler Institute of American Art, it was immediately evident that his major influence is Pablo Picasso, emulating many of the modern master’s compositions in several paintings included in the exhibition. Yet nowhere in Gary T. Erbe’s biography or in prior exhibition reviews do the artist or scholars acknowledge Picasso, despite […]
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When Raheleh Mohammad got word that power was out at Cool Water Dry Goods in Tremont just hours before the scheduled opening of her show during the March Walkabout, it would have been easy enough to re-schedule. The staff at the shop was supportive. But Raheleh had spoken with her mother earlier in the day: her mother had called to […]
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Maruja Limón is a Barcelona-based sextet forging their own path through flamenco, pop, Latin, rumba, and electronic experimentation. Since their debut album Más de ti (2018) — named one of the best Spanish records of the year — they’ve appeared on festival stages across Europe and Morocco, earned a Billboard feature, and most recently, a U.S. tour performing at Lincoln […]
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People may not consider the possibility of their cotton shirt serving as an outlet of creative expression, but the intricacies of fiber art become very clear when viewing the works shown in Layers, currently on view at the Praxis Fiber Workshop. Each artist in the exhibition is a member of the Art Cloth Network (ACN): a nationally recognized group led […]
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“Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it,possibly without claiming it, she stands up for all women.”Maya Angelou At From WOMAN19, exhibiting at The Beth K. Stocker Art Gallery, the energies of the divine feminine are radiant and loud, as the artists pour their heart and soul into the pieces surrounding us. The exhibition gathers art “created […]
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When you hear the words First Lady and White House, images of elegance and history arise. Jackie, Birdie, Eleanor, Michelle… women whose lives were shaped by marriage and the roles they assumed beside their husbands. Frances Benjamin Johnson was a different kind of “first lady”, however, who arrived at the White House on her own terms and made history as […]
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CAN asked Paul Cox—writer, percussionist, former Dean of Creative Arts at Tri-C, lecturer/visiting assistant prof. of Music at Oberlin College and Case Western Reserve University, and even before that Associate Director of Performing Arts at the Cleveland Museum of Art—to visit and write about Steve Parker’s Fight Song, on view through April 18. –Ed. So, I crossed Detroit and walked […]
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“I am doll eyes, doll mouth, doll legsI am doll arms, big veins, dog begsI want to be the girl with the most cakeI fake it so real, I am beyond fake.”– Courtney Love/Hole, 1994 Power Exchange Rate (PER) examines how one’s bodily intimacies and understanding are shaped, regulated, and contested within the structures of capital and power. Through a feminist […]
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It’s not at every exhibition that invites participation by sitting on an artist performing as a chair, but this is what visitors walked in on during opening night for Love, Sex, & The Body, an open call 18+ art show curated by Liana Gonzalez. Artist Maddie McSweeney’s performance involved impersonating a chair, their body wrapped in beige pantyhose from head […]
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