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CMA’s PROOF exhibit lacks diversity and inclusion

Tobili Hatcher, Staff Reporter May 4, 2020

"A picture’s worth a thousand words, but what’s a proof worth?” you wonder, as you walk through the Cleveland Museum of Art’s (CMA) most recent exhibit, “PROOF: Photography in the Era of the...

CWRU faculty Sandra Nobles quilts in the CWRU Art Gallery.

African American Art alumni exhibit explores the past and present

Matt Hooke, Executive Editor February 21, 2020

When entering the African American Alumni Art Exhibition at the Case Western Reserve University Art Studio Gallery, you see West African traditional fabrics and masks, then modern quilts and photographs...

CMA takes a minimalist approach to Valentines Day.

Art lends a helping hand in finding the true meaning in a fake holiday

Tobili Hatcher, Staff Reporter February 21, 2020

If you were hoping to be bombarded with hordes of pink and red balloons, red roses galore and tons of gushy “I love you” texts to show that the event was taking place, then the Cleveland Museum of...

Semester in Review Art Exhibition takes place next week

Yvonne Pan, A&E Editor December 6, 2019

We are fortunate to attend school in the cultural hub of Cleveland, surrounded by institutions like the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland Botanical Gardens and iconic...

The Armor Court at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Before you go: CMA edition

Henry Bendon, Staff Reporter December 6, 2019

As the semester winds down and the weather descends into the miserable grossness that is the Cleveland winter, there’s no better place to visit than the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). For regular attendees...

Prismatica ia a rotating exhibit featuring glass prisms that transmit every
color in the visual spectrum.

Prismatica brings Clevelanders downtown to appreciate art

Sunayana Jampanaboyana, Staff Reporter November 22, 2019

“Prismatica is comprised of 25 pivoting prisms, each more than six feet tall, made of panels laminated with a diachronic film that transmits and reflects every color in the visible spectrum, varying...

Aurora Thunder at Dragoween, hosted by the Beachland Ballroom.

Queer aesthetics in “costumes,” Cleveland LGBTQ+ performers and safe spaces

Adam Benjamin, Staff Reporter November 8, 2019

In a season where LGBTQ+ youths are inundated with images of dominant groups donning queer aesthetics as costumes, the visibility of the drag community is ever more essential and magnitudinous.  Local...

“Wakey, Wakey” celebrates mortality and the simplicity of human love

“Wakey, Wakey” celebrates mortality and the simplicity of human love

Adam Benjamin, Contributing Reporter October 25, 2019

“Wakey, Wakey” is Dobama Theatre’s Midwest premiere of playwright Will Eno’s mysterious exploration of mortality.  “Wakey, Wakey” stars Jason Martin as Guy, a man whose vitality burns through...

Cleveland-based book award recognizes four authors for their work

Caroline Kuntzman, Staff Reporter October 4, 2019

On Sept. 26, members of the Cleveland community attended the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards at the KeyBank State Theatre in Playhouse Square. The award was created in 1935 by poet and philanthropist Edith...

MOCA opens fall exhibits “The Sunday Paintings” and “Invisible Cities”

MOCA opens fall exhibits “The Sunday Paintings” and “Invisible Cities”

Matt Hooke, Executive Editor September 20, 2019

On Friday, Sept. 13, the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA) celebrated the opening of two new exhibitions, Liu Wei’s “Invisible Cities” and Byron Kim’s “The Sunday Paintings.”  Both...

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