Possibility For Repair, on view at the Reinberger Gallery through February 9, opened just three days after the November 5 election. The show is an attempt to imagine reparations for the systemic elite white supremacy and unchecked, hegemonic European-Christian values that buttresses our collective American histories. Artists Lyndon Barrois, Jr., Mark Thomas Gibson, Sarah Kabot, M. Carmen Lane, and Jessica […]
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On December 3, 2024, family of Patricia Zinsmeister Parker posted the following on Facebook: “To all of Trish’s countless friends [ . . . ] Trish left this world on Thanksgiving day of this year, in Liestal Switzerland. She chose to ‘move on’ via Voluntary Assisted Death. Trish left a wide and deep mark on those that knew her, loved […]
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It’s become CAN’s holiday tradition in the second half of December to let you know which of our stories were the most-read in the last year. In 2024, money and the art world version of “hard news” dominate the list. That’s a stark contrast to 2023’s list, when highlights included Erin O’Brien’s report on artists painting recycled wind turbine blades […]
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[NOTE: This is a dated post; for this year’s date and time, check current listings.] Phil Kline’s Unsilent Night is a Christmas-adjacent, strolling musical performance that combines December festivity, the need for community and tradition, with an aesthetic and rules that accommodate the changing times. New-York-based / Cleveland-born artist Andrew Ratcliff has hosted performances in Tremont since 2021, and will […]
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“We want to turn this country back to [the way it was in] 1954.” Paul Weyrich, Co-Founder of the Heritage Foundation and the Christian Right’s Moral Majority, c. 1982 “I have swallowed a monstrous dose of poison…the violence of the venom twists my limbs, deforms…prostrates me, I die of thirst, I suffocate, and cannot scream. It is hell, eternal punishment.” […]
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On view as part of Curlee Raven Holton’s solo exhibition Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Spirit at William Busta Projects in Waterloo this fall, the modest size serigraph relief, A Dance of Joy and Pain (2024), summons the unusually spectacular autumn gracing Cleveland this year. Orange-crimson burns like a flame against a shrinking azure expanse, glow emitting a boundless, jubilant, […]
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This essay was written for The HeArt of Cleveland, Volume II, an anthology of art and writing organized and published by Scott Kraynak, and surveying the creative scene in Cleveland. It’s published with permission. The HeArt of Cleveland, Volume II debuts in November at HEDGE Gallery, with an exhibition of works by artists who contributed to images and text to […]
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“If the world is turned upside down, the truth will become a lie.” – Guy Debord, 1967 “The image always gets the last word.” – Roland Barthes, c. 1975 “DEGENERATE! Hitler’s War on Modern Art” explores the ways in which Der Fuhrer’s Nazi party used modern art as a vehicle to sway public opinion, and the subsequent assault on artists […]
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If we don’t recognize our ancestors, we don’t know who we are. Stories and histories are the anchors of resilience in a turbulent river that can feel like a whirlpool. In Queer Histories, a collaborative exhibit between the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland and Zygote Press, tributes to and calls to action from the queer community resonate through the […]
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In several scenes in the film Como agua para chocolate[1] (Alfonso Arau, 1992, based on the book of the same name by Laura Esquivel), the De la Garza sisters cross the border between Mexico and the United States, like those who cross the street: without so much drama or paperwork. They cross for a variety of reasons: They go to […]
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