After seeing the Soleri show at MOCA Scottsdale, we went over to Cosanti in Paradise Valley, AZ to buy a couple of bells for ourselves.
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A Grand Collection
My family was fortunate to have another trip to Michigan’s Mackinac Island again this year. We stayed at the Grand Hotel, whose legendary front porch and beautiful surroundings are a treat unto themselves. I wandered into the gallery area in the main Parlor which exhibits paintings from the world renowned Manoogian Collection. The Manoogians have exhibited over 400 paintings from their collection at the hotel for the past 25 years. Here is a sample of some of the pieces on display this summer.
Fairy Hordes Attacking a Bat , John Fitzgerald, British, 1832-1906 The works on display include 19th and 20th century examples of many different types of painting genres and by a large collection of artists.
Rabbits , 1878 by Charlotte Mount Brock Schreiber, Canadian, 1834-1922 
The George R. Rich Family Having Afternoon Coffee at the Villa Quisisana Overlooking Oresund, Skodsborg, Strandvej (Denmark), 1885 by Wenzel Ulrik Tornoe, Danish, 1844-1907 
A Liberated Woman by John G. Brown, American, 1831-1913. My assumption is that the cigarette and the way she looks down at the viewer indicate her liberated status.
Statue of Liberty Celebration by Frederick Rondel, American, 1826-1892. This is just a small sample of the artwork on display, there are many fine examples of portraiture, tromp l’oeil, landscapes, still lifes, etc. The art on display makes an already worthwhile trip all the more special.
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Rooms to Let 2016 – Everyday Dishes
I participated in Cleveland Rooms to Let 2016 where curated a room that will feature the dinnerware designs of Cleveland Artist, Designer and CIA professor, Viktor Schreckengost. The installation will be called Everyday Dishes and is based on an exhibition I curated in 2004 at the Northern Clay Studio in Minneapolis called The Dinnerware Legacy of Viktor Schreckengost. The dishes Viktor designed when he worked for Salem China and American Limoges in Sebring, OH in the early part of the 20th century, were the dishes that people used to eat their daily meals and would have bought at stores like J C Penny, Sears and Montgomery Ward. They were not the good dishes that only came out a couple of times a year, but the ones that they grabbed for their morning toast and set their dinner tables with. The Rooms to Let Cleveland event will took place on May 21 & 22, 2016.
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London Archaeology
Stanhope’s 8-10 Moorgate, London, where Museum of London Archaeology recently investigated With many ongoing building projects in the works, archaeologists in London are quite busy as remnants of Roman occupation, the Bedlam cemetery, and other yet to be determined sites are uncovered during construction. They have found many skeletons and are doing DNA testing to determine cause of death, background, etc. It is hard to believe that such a busy modern city is also a very active archaeological site.
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Making Lace from Steel
Shovels by Cal Lane
Artist Cal Lane uses metal as her palette and a torch as her brush. She creates amazingly intricate designs in found metal objects. Tools, pieces of old cars, etc anything rusty that she can transform into her lace-like creations.
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Monet in Cleveland
The Nelson-Atkins and the St. Louis Art Museum have loaned their Waterlilies by Monet to the CMA so that the three images could be joined together again. The Cleveland Museum of Art is hosting an exhibition entitled Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse now through January 5, 2016. The exhibition, organized by CMA and the Royal Academy of Arts in London, looks at the role of gardens to artists such as Claude Monet, who was also a horticulturist.
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Looking Beyond the Traditional
Timelines by Christine Mauersberger, 2015 The exhibition Beyond Materials: Woven Values . The show features artwork that reflects the history of fiber work (which has traditionally been viewed as a “craft”) as textile based art moves forward as an ever evolving, viable art medium. The exhibition is up until October 3, 2015.
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Kehinde Wiley in Cleveland
Kehinde Wiley,
Napoleon Leading the Army Over the Alps (Self-Portrait),
Oil on canvas, 2005
Artist
will speak at
Cleveland Museum of Art’s Gartner Auditorium, Saturday August 29th
at 2:00. His beautiful work harks back to an earlier style while creating very modern portraits. Wiley’s recent one man exhibition at the
was very well received by the art world and the public, alike. The Cleveland lecture is part of the
Cleveland Public Library’s The Lockwood Thompson Dialogues
.
Kehinde Wiley
Triple Portrait of Charles I
, oil and enamel on canvas. Triptych, 2007,
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The Last Hurrah
Rooms to Let in Slavic Village in ClevelandThere was a uplifting art happening in Cleveland last weekend called “Rooms to Let.” It was the second such event where foreclosed and abandoned houses in a hard hit area of Cleveland (houses that are scheduled to be demolished) are turned over to artists, who give them one last celebratory and dignified, send-off.Artist: Dana DepewArtist: Dana DepewThe houses are all roughly a hundred years old and the last few years have been less then their best years. They are filled with character, beautiful wood, built-in china cabinets, window seats, etc., but what the artists focus on, for the most part, are that the houses are also filled with the lives of their former occupants. The houses sheltered people whose lives cry out to be celebrated before the tangible evidence of their exsistence is gone forever. We as a society, especially one hard hit by its changes like Cleveland’s Slavic Village, are too quick to erase the past as we rush toward the future and we often don’t realize what has been lost until it is no longer there. “Rooms to Let” stops us in our tracks and makes us look at these places, see the beauty, enjoy some music, laugh and talk with people, honor these structures and the families who lived and loved in them.
Artist: Christine MauersbergerArtist: Christine MauersbergerArtist: Christine MauersbergerHaving become blighted and a burden on the neighborhood, the city has no choice but to tear them down. This has been the story for many rust belt cities who deal with a loss of population and aging housing stock. For one more weekend though, people filled rooms, created music, gathered around them and enjoyed life. It was a celebration of the service of the houses as dwellings and the lives of the people who lived in them.
Artist: Jeff ChiplisArtist: Paul Sydorenko
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