It’s being done very quietly, but this month the Verne Gallery celebrates a remarkable anniversary—its seventieth year in business—making it the second-oldest gallery in Cleveland after the Bonfoey Gallery, established in 1893. Such longevity in itself is remarkable, but in this instance all the more so, because the Verne Gallery is a bit of an anomaly in today’s art world, […]
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You don’t have to be around the Northeast Ohio art scene long to hear people bandy about the term Cleveland School. And in one sense, it’s a pretty easily defined group: The Cleveland School artists are those who studied or were on the faculty at the Cleveland School of Art—which of course became the Cleveland Institute of Art—in the first […]
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For years Laurence Channing was director of publications at the Cleveland Museum of Art, but would rise every morning hours before dawn to put in a few hours of drawing before he went to work. As this suggests, while his effects are delicate, there’s a stubborn intensity to his vision. He seems indifferent to the usual artistic tricks for calling […]
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To lure buyers, it’s common to say that a book is a “page-turner.” That’s not the case here, but nonetheless it’s well worth buying Jeannine deNobel Love’s Cleveland Architecture, 1890-1930: Building the City Beautiful, and keeping it close at hand. For anyone who lives in Cleveland or who’s interested in the arts, this is an indispensable reference. Cleveland’s greatest period […]
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Dennis Barrie was director of the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center when he and the museum became the first in the US to face obscenity charges over the art they exhibited–a retrospective of Robert Mapplethorpe’s provocative photos, titled The Perfect Moment. He went on to serve as executive director of Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, and subsequently […]
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Tregoning & Company was born in 1982, over lunch. Having cut his teeth at American University and Washington, D.C.-area museums, Tregoning had come to work for a prominent Cleveland framing and appraisal company. However, he quickly found himself in philosophical clashes with the owners. The firm only hung a few paintings on the walls at a time. To Tregoning, this […]
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The exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art have been uneven of late, but the one on view now, The Jazz Age, is a dazzler. It’s visually stunning; it’s intellectually fascinating; it’s full of wonderful surprises, in that it brings together objects that you don’t usually see in an art museum, such as jewelry and costumes, in a highly creative […]
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This is adapted from a letter from Henry Adams, nominating William Robinson for the Cleveland Arts Prize. When there’s a great exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art, not many people stop to think about who was responsible for creating it, or about the challenges of making it happen. The key visionary and impresario behind a great many of […]
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“Our values today are not very different from the values of Viktor Schreckengost. We believe in discipline, a close reading of the reality around you, a connection with the viewer and end user. We give our students traditional drawing skills, and knowledge of color theory, composition, and perspective. Today these very important foundational skills are being applied to 3D animation, […]
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Few figures have so profoundly shaped Cleveland—and done so for the better—as Peter van Dijk. The architect designed some of the best buildings in the region, including the Blossom Music Center; has played a major role in historic restoration; and for decades has quietly played an active and positive role in civic design and planning, and arts activities of all […]
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