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Arts and CulturePrivate Empire: The National Portrait Gallery of KessaSubmitted by KMonoxide on Wed, 09/26/2007 - 14:21.
10/12/2007 - 18:00 10/12/2007 - 22:00 Etc/GMT-4 Arabella Proffer has created a fictional National Portrait Gallery, whose works are a juxtaposition of modernity with aristocratic tradition. Her subjects sport twenty-first century punk and gothic styles as part of their formalwear, but without the mohawks and piercing, each portrait resembles typical late medieval or Renaissance portraits. Proffer notes: "this series centers around balance of counter-culture and tradition; how punk or gothic styles might be adopted by royalty and socialites for serious portraits left as a reminder of their legacy. What was once considered rebellious has now become widely accepted. Traditionally, each portrait preserves what may later be a historical moment. In the case of this series however, some the 'historical' moments are of my own imagination" Location
Asterisk Gallery
2393 Professor Ave.
Cleveland, OH United States
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WIRES CONTRE JOURSubmitted by Jeff Buster on Sun, 09/23/2007 - 17:46.
 We have all seen this phenomena, in the early morning or late afternoon - when the sun is “against the day” - the sun somehow reflects off the wires and makes them shine like illuminated spider’s webs.
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Labor and Industry extended to Tremont Art Walk October 12thSubmitted by lmcshane on Sat, 09/22/2007 - 15:28.
10/12/2007 - 17:00 10/12/2007 - 21:00 Etc/GMT-4
Labor & Industry by photographer Roger Mastrionni will
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Andrew Wyeth: Watercolors and Drawings
Master artist Andrew Wyeth (b. 1917), inspired by the world of Christina and Alvaro Olson in Cushing, Maine, created a body of work of their everyday activities, domestic interiors, and utilitarian objects. Beginning September 21 through December 16, 2007, selections from the Marunuma Art Park Collection, Japan, are featured in this exhibition of watercolors and drawings by Andrew Wyeth. An exhibition preview party for Butler Members is planned for Thursday, September 20 at the museum. Call 330.743.1107, ext. 210 to reserve. This exhibition of Wyeth works have rarely been seen publicly in the United States. The show was organized by and opened at the Cincinnati (Ohio) Art Museum, and was also displayed at the Gilcrease Museum of American Art in Tulsa (Oklahoma). This exhibition at the Butler is sponsored locally by National City Bank. Andrew Wyeth
The Butler Institute of American Art
The Beecher Center
524 Wick Avenue
Youngstown, Ohio 44502 (MAPQUEST)
Phone 330.743.1107 Fax 330.743.9567
Hours: 11 am to 4 pm Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday; Sunday noon to 4 pm; Wednesday 11 am to 8 pm; closed Monday and major holidays.
Scenarios USA is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that that uses writing and filmmaking to foster youth leadership, advocacy and self-expression in under-served teens. Scenarios USA asks teens to write about the issues that shape their lives for the annual "What's the REAL DEAL?" writing contest, and thousands have responded with their raw and revealing insights.
Brutalism against Breuer in Cleveland, Ohio.
Cool Cleveland this week ran a piece by Chris Whipple about re-naming Cleveland’s Terminal Tower. Mr. Whipple suggests that “terminal” (as in "terminally ill", dead, or dead end) is too much a downer name and that instead the building should be called VanView after the Van Sweringen brothers who built the tower and Shaker Heights, etc.
I have been attending and photographing events at each end of the NEO citizen spectrum. What I mean is that I have attended Cuyahoga County Commissioner's meetings - which I would propose is one of many events at the top of what I'll define as the "civic pyramid", and I’ve gone to classes with individual citizens at the Shaker Lakes Regional Nature Center (the raccoon rabies bait story is centered around the Nature Center woods) -which I propose to define as one of many citizen events at the base, the foundation, of the "civic pyramid". Another example of an event at the top of the "civic pyramid" would be the Cuyahoga County Wind Energy Task Force meeting which was held at the Key Center September 13 and which I will post about shortly. And another example of an event at the foundation of the pyramid is instructor Donald Isom’s (on left in "Rehab is for Quiters" shirt) weekly Krump at the Heights Youth Club pictured above.
Photo of contractor Susan Clellen in front of Stewardship Center
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Mr. Seale addressed a crowd of several hundred at Cuyahoga Community College Saturday evening. I remember well the Black Panther Party from the 1960’s. Mr. Seale remembers it well too. Mr. Seale's visit was sponsored by the Sara J. Harper Leadership Institute. Retired Hon. J. Harper was at the podium to introduce the evening’s program.
The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo celebrates its 125th anniversary. With two Cleveland Metrohealth Campuses, two libraries (free WI-FI), a rec center, Steelyard Commons and the Cuyahoga Valley National Park within walking or biking or train distance, you would think that hotels and great restaurants would follow Go figure?! (Hello Mitch Schneider--A residential inn at Steelyard Commons please! So my mom has a place to stay when she visits :)
I do have to hand it to the Ohio tourism site--Discover Ohio--nice job! Mutiple language options. SMART!
ZOOBILEE, also, a great chance to see RED, an orchestra!
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The property next to me has been for sale for over 2 years. And after a similar fruitless wait, the owner of the house two doors up just last week pulled their house back off the market. Nothing is selling in my neighborhood. In Parma – where I took the “rent to own” and “cash at closing” photos the neighborhoods are littered with empty for-sale houses. In Cleveland Heights and Shaker Heights a few houses are even being auctioned – very unusual for those suburbs. Then there’s Cleveland and East Cleveland.
On Friday August 31, 2007, while Air Show jets stalled out conversations and blasted ear drums, Susan Miller and I visited the “open house” at the Post designed Cleveland Trust Rotunda building which sits on the corner of Euclid and 9th next to the Marcel Breuer designed Cleveland Trust Tower in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. Lee Trotter had announced this open house at the County Commissioners meeting the day before and the Dirty Dealer had carried the news a few days prior. I wondered, why is the County doing this?
Unbelievable! Though our government has launched a plan to rip down a cultural icon, local firms now announce plans for a high-rise building boom in "Our Town"!
I consistently attempt to have a “positive” outlook about North East Ohio and Cleveland. I consider the substance of my posts on Realneo and affirmatively select material which I believe is conducive to improving the region. However, there can be a problem with this self steered Polly Anna editorial policy . Always looking at the bright side might be just perpetuating a lie – maybe always having a positive outlook is actually misleading people and leading others into the false belief that the region is doing ok, that the region is improving. Maybe it would be more helpful if I used my blog to accelerate failure – get to the bottom of it, get it over with and start new…
What does it look like on the inside? Here's your chance to see...
From my neighbors: You may remember stories in in the PD about two suburban teens who executed extensive graffiti in Ohio City and near Archwood/Dennison. When arrested, they said their crime didn't matter "since Cleveland is a run-down ghetto city so who cares."
We do care and those who would like to join our neighbors to show we do care by a show of support at the sentencing of these young men, please plan to attend sentencing on Monday, Sept. 10 at 9 a.m. in Courtroom 22C, Justice Center, before Judge Judith Kilbane-Koch, Court of Common Pleas, 1200 Ontario.
Asleep on the job.... photo courtesy Tim Littler Xian, China
Let's try to elucidate the elusive and concretize the abstraction represented by my Cross System - start by drawing a Cross.
