Gray’s Auctioneers will offer up a host of modern and contemporary art for its upcoming auction, including a unique little sculpture loaded with big local history. In November 1979, Clevelanders watched on as a dynamic public art installation rose before the new Frank J. Lausche State Office Building on the corner of West 6th Street and Superior. While a […]
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The Morgan Conservatory’s mission is the preservation and advancement of “the ancient art of papermaking.” That mission is well-served by its exhibition opening this week, Unknown Terrain. Breaking preconceptions about paper in the fine arts, the Morgan’s show hosts more than a half dozen large installation made entirely or primarily out of paper. Paper is most often treated as a […]
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“This is a sculpture show,” Matthew Gallagher says of his mini-retrospective exhibit at Hedge Gallery. “Everything is sculpture. There’s no such thing as the second dimension.” He insists on this point (which is perhaps debatable – literally a matter of perspective) because much of what he does as an artist ends up hanging on a wall, yet is more akin […]
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What powers do words have? In a pair of exhibitions now ongoing at The Sculpture Center, Jonas Sebura and Anthony Warnick conduct two very different investigations of this question. Sebura looks at early efforts to manipulate reality directly through ritual and speech in the form of spells, incantations, curses, and prayers. Warnick uses the insights of philosophy of language to […]
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“After the Pedestal” is the Sculpture Center’s tenth exhibition of smaller works. How small? Not small enough to be distracting. This isn’t a competition to see who can make the smallest recognizable image, or to cram the most detail into a compressed space. But even the largest pieces could be carried by one person (save perhaps Mark Rubelowsky’s aptly-named “Table.” […]
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You might be served best by stopping reading this review right now and driving to Highland Hills. There, the Tri-C Art Faculty and Staff Art Exhibit 2016 closes in two days, Jan. 26, this Thursday. Twenty artists from all four Cuyahoga Community College campuses are represented in the Eastern Campus Art Gallery. As with any group show, the subject matter […]
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In the Odyssey, the Greek word used to describe the wily hero Odysseus is “polutropon” – many-sided, multivalent. It might also serve as an epithet for the sculptor Giancarlo Calicchia, a man accomplished in a variety of disciplines, whose unique imagery and personal symbols chip and twist through time, reimagining the scale and power of ancient mysteries. Calicchia’s sculptures […]
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Andy Goldsworthy was taking questions from the audience after his talk Sunday afternoon at the Cleveland Museum of Art, when this one came up: What was he like as a child? After noting that you’d have to have asked his late mother to really know the answer, the acclaimed artist downplayed the idea that there was anything unusual about his […]
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By now, thanks to USA today and multiple other news outlets, tens of thousands of people across the country have read that Loren Naji’s “Emoh” is named for the word “home” spelled backwards. And they know Naji’s intent by living for a few weeks in his eight-foot sphere–cobbled together with debris collected from abandoned homes in Cleveland and Detroit– is to […]
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