This Tuesday, the day before Halloween, The John and Mildred Putnam Sculpture Collection and The Friends of Art have a treat for all of NEO. The day begins with a tour from 12 noon - 1 pm of some of the highlights of the John and Mildred Putnam Sculpture Collection. The John and Mildred Putnam Collection is a remarkable collection of over 35 sculptures by "regional" artists located indoors and outdoors around the campus of Case Western Reserve University and in University Circle. The tour begins at the sculpture MERGING, infront of Guilford house, Belflower Rd., behind The Cleveland Institute of Art's Gund Building on North Campus. Tour is weather permitting and will be cancelled if there is substantial rains during 12 pm - 1pm. Please wear comfortable walking shoe and warm clothing if necessary!

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The holidays are around the corner! Want to avoid the malls, forget about those outrageous shipping fees with online and catalog purchases and still find the perfect gifts for friends and family? You need to shop at auction!  Did I mention save money? Don't forget buying at auction is buying wholesale. Gray's Auctioneers promises to host the premier holiday shopping event November 18th 2007. Check out the catalog online - www.graysauctioneers.com, catalog available the week of November 5th. and come in during the preview week, open for viewing Wednesday November 14, - Friday November 16, 11 am - 8 pm., and Saturday 11 am - 6 pm, and Sunday at 11:30 am before the 1 pm auction.

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Could it be just over a year since Masumi Hayashi and John Jackson were killed by a senseless psycho ...? As the senseless killing escalates all around NEO today, it is easy for the dead to become forgotten by so many they touched in many ways, in life... or lost to all. Where NEO has seen a community that remembers is those who love the arts, as the past year has seen many shows of love and respect for Masumi and John, the most recent being a wonderful exhibition that opened last week at Doubting Thomas Gallery, called To Masumi. A collection of special works by many who love and remember Masumi, this is a powerful statement on what lasts and matters in life and beyond. Props to the organizers of this exhibition and to Doubting Thomas - really fantastic... amazing musicians performing in the front Gallery, Michael Doc Dreyfuss and Bill Weita... haunting yet alive... see today's header... image below...

 

When you visit downtown Chicago or Toronto you can feel those places are more civically healthy than downtown  Cleveland. 

For my friend and real artist Kyle Primous.  Dreamgirls is playing for two more weekends only.  Catch the talent in Parma Heights.  You heard me.  Parma Heights.  See the story unfold.

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Labor & Industry by photographer Roger Mastrionni will
continue into Tremont's next ArtWalk - Friday, October
12th 6 - 9 pm when we will again produce a visual and aural experience
that compliments the art show - filling the space with the stunning
cinematic  "silent movie" images of steel and Tremont from the award-winning
Deerhunter  splashed across a long white movie screen (rescued from the Mayfield
Cinema).  Mixing industrial-based sounds from the '80s and 90's with an
ecletic mix of soundtrack and melodies electronic and otherwise in the
background - branding the space - former Brown's Market. 

Bringing  new light and focus to these themes which will be further displayed at
the  Steelyard Heritage Center - also opening the dialogue on the current
state  of affairs of industry and particularly steel in Cleveland.

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Lot  71, a ceramic sculpture by Gary Spinosa,

"Bust of a Dog," 3" x 3,"

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Brutalism against Breuer in Cleveland, Ohio. 

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I just got the email below, from the head of a local arts not-for-profit to remain un-named, to protect the innocent: "Norm -- i just wanted to make sure you knew about the "sales pitch" we are about to get.". I read on to see that tax junkie CPAC - Community Partnership for Arts and Culture - is on the Cuyahoga County junk again, now hustling artists and arts organizations to tax themselves and patrons for the benefit of the dealers. Read on... anyone going to this who can cover for realneo?... Note: " RSVP’s are required!" Now, a little art, in honor of this event and the rush for the MedCon and taxation without sober representation, courtesy of Lou Reed:

I dont know just where Im going

But Im gonna try for the kingdom, if I can

cause it makes me feel like Im a man

When I put a spike into my vein

And Ill tell ya, things arent quite the same

When Im rushing on my run

And I feel just like jesus son

And I guess that I just dont know

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Need something for your home or office?

Three Chinese bamboo and metals chairs, est. $60-80

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An important addition was made to The John and Mildred Putnam Sculpture Collection, located on the campus of Case Western Reserve University and the grounds of University Circle, with the installation of a fantastic steel sculpture by masterful sculptor and Cleveland Institute of Art President David Deming, which is titled "Inner Circle". Located by the Case residential village, across from the Starbucks, at the intersection of East 115th, Juniper and Bellflower, this work is a great addition to an important art collection, curated by Evelyn Kiefer, that makes University Circle a much more inspiring and remarkable place, with public art.

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The Women's Council Speaker Series Committee is pleased to welcome Dr. Landau, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University. She has taught in the Cleveland Museum of Art/CWRU Joint Program in Art History since 1982, with courses specializing in 20th-century American and European art and theory, particularly Abstract Expressionism. Considered the leading expert on Jackson Pollock, she is the author of the definitive book on the artist (1989).

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My friend Katrina will be guest bartending with Thomas Barbric' the regular bartender at Light Bistro (formerly Parker's) on Thursday, June 26th from 4:30 - 8:00 (Happy Hour) all tips will go to the Cleveland Animal Protective League.  There will be complimentary Tapas as well as a few other appetizers for $5. 

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The IngenuityFest public outreach efforts of Sally Levine  and David Ellison are intended to prevent Cuyahoga County from demolishing Cleveland’s Marcel Breuer designed Ameritrust Tower.    Ms. Levine and Mr. Ellison present a “Right vs Might” poster boy case of passionate public citizens who are “right” going up against “City Hall” “might”.   Except in this case it isn’t “City Hall”,   but “County Hall”.  

In geologic cadence Troika Ranch developed their dark on-stage anthropology.   Could also be a display of schizoid spousal personality disorder  - views in a mad house.  Womens' forearms definitely became homo erections;  stiletto pumps – maturing desire or just vertical ambulatory evolutionary expression?

The Fine Art & Antiques Auction preview began on Wednesday and continues through Saturday (11-8 Wed. - Fri. & 11-6 Sat.) but Friday night should be especially fun. From 5:30 - 8 there will a special reception and exhibition of photography by Cleveland artist Ruggero Fatica. Gray's Auctioneers promises to be the new hip place in town to see art, buy art and see and be seen.

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Andy Warhol, Dollar Sign, 1981, © AWF

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