What makes an event worthy of documentary film? Of course the answer can be the story-telling as much as the subject, and the substance as much as the newsworthy moment. Where We Overlap: The Motion Picture is a documentary by Cleveland-based director Wayne Smith III, which appeared on the Local Heroes shorts program at the Cleveland International Film Festival. It’s […]
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There are webs that hold history captive, connecting events to one another other and to us. Bruno Casiano’s Pieces of Me, on view until April 9th in the Residency Gallery of moCa Cleveland, spins such webs out of vibrant colors and a riot of textures. (But don’t touch those paintings, no matter how much you want to.) What stories are […]
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In spring of 2021, Antwoine Washington and Michael C. Russell’s organization MoCHA—the Museum of Creative Human Art—was a part of Imagine Otherwise, a series of exhibitions presented by moCa, curated by LaTanya Autry. That connection grew into a curatorial residency—MoCHA at moCa—giving Washington and Russell a prominent platform for their work, advocating and creating exhibit opportunities for Black artists. –ed. […]
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In June 2020, Jill Snyder, former executive director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, resigned amid controversy over an exhibition. After nineteen months and nearly a year-long search, Megan Lykins Reich, who has been serving as interim director, was appointed to serve as the new Kohl Executive Director at moCa. Having first met when she took his master’s […]
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While virtual gallery tours, carry-out activities, and even drive-in performances all have had their magnificent places through the COVID pandemic, one of the most fitting responses was very old-school, and it resonated beautifully with the event it replaced: moCa Cleveland’s annual BOUND artist book and ‘zine fair, which had annually drawn art book and zine publishers curated by TR […]
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Margaret Kilgallen: that’s where the beauty is, on view at moCa Cleveland January 31- May 17, 2020, is a knockout exhibition. Organized by moCa chief curator Courtenay Finn for the Aspen Art Museum (where it debuted in 2019), it is the late artist’s first posthumous museum exhibition. It’s a delightfully arranged and presented show: the entire experience wraps around you […]
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