Julian and Barbara Stanczak at the Medici Museum in Warren, Ohio

Julian Stanczak is surely the one painter of recognized international stature that Cleveland has produced.  But it’s an unfortunate fact that work has not been very well shown in town.  The Cleveland Museum of Art has never staged an exhibition of his work, and those exhibitions that have been devoted to him—for example, a conscientious four-part survey of his prints […]

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2020: Learning from those who Passed Away

  We can learn from people who passed away, even if we don’t always know what. Every life offers multiple perspectives on how to find meaning. To improvise on a theme from Wallace Stevens, twenty people dying are one death with something to teach us, and also twenty deaths with twenty things each to teach us about the value of a […]

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