Laundry. Whether the word evokes dazzling white sheets billowing along a clothesline or a basket brimming with unmentionables, the uniquely human task is as universal as it is mundane. However it’s perceived, the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is elevating the humble work of washing and ironing with Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism. “The exhibition looks at […]
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The request landed back in February. “Hi Erin,” wrote Tim Herron, cofounder of the Pretentious Cleveland Portrait Artists (PCPA), “I am always on the lookout for interesting models.” He added the sketch group was scheduling pretty far out, into August. I blinked at the screen for a minute or two amid a vague feeling of disbelief. Me? Sit for a […]
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On a Tuesday evening in March 1964, two New York police detectives stormed into the New Bowery Theater in the city’s Lower East Side and seized a number of items, including reels of an avant-garde film, Flaming Creatures. Produced the previous year by experimental film pioneer Jack Smith, the forty-minute effort included nudity, transsexuality, and sexual situations. Just two months […]
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With the pledge of a remarkable gift, the long-awanted, much-anticipated Reverend Albert Wagner Museum is set to become reality in September, 2023. At age fifty in the mid-1970s, the Reverend Albert Wagner experienced an epiphany during which an old board splattered with house paint spoke to him and delivered what would become his lifelong mantra: “God is going to plant […]
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NFTs are tokens that we can use to represent ownership of unique items. They let us tokenise things like art, collectibles, even real estate. They can only have one official owner at a time and they’re secured by the Ethereum blockchain – no one can modify the record of ownership or copy/paste a new NFT into existence. —Ethereum.org, accessed April […]
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Your head tilts with curiosity when you first gaze at the strange porcelain objects. At once familiar and foreign, they evoke a set of legs, or perhaps a swaddled infant. Damaged and deformed, their vulnerability is undeniable. Then the name, Pearly Whites, gives it away. These are teeth—sort of. Clearly modeled from human teeth, but at least fifty times as […]
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Less than a mile from mountains of taconite pellets destined to become steel, and awash in the chorus of resident birds, the new public art on the Wendy Park Bridge reflects its creators’ deep understanding of the installation’s place in time and space. The new Wendy Park Bridge traverses the busy Norfolk Southern railroad tracks just before they merge […]
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Five and a half miles due east from downtown Warren, Ohio, in the heart of Howland Township, sits the Medici Museum, which is completely singular on account of its current exhibition and how it got there. Norman Rockwell: American Scouting Collection includes no less than 65 original Rockwell oil paintings that the revered American artist and illustrator created for […]
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Last March, the Museum of Contemporary Art (moCa) Cleveland announced its OPEN HOUSE initiatives, including the big news you’ve probably heard by now—free admission. But other components of the program launched behind the scenes, such as the creation of the Gund Curatorial Fellow. Enter La Tanya Autry, whose work in the Museums Are Not Neutral campaign that she co-founded in […]
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In overwhelming numbers, organizations that make up the region’s art scene are led by women. When you draw back the camera and pan Northeast Ohio’s nonprofit arts community, one thing comes into sharp focus. An overwhelming number of these organizations are staffed and helmed by women, from Amy Callahan at Waterloo Arts to Lucinda Einhouse at the Beck Center and […]
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