Three great exhibitions opened at MOCA this past Friday: "Sarah Kabot: On the Flip Side," "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art," and "Transitions: Linda Butler and Philip Brutz Photography." "On the Flip Side" is the 2006 edition of the Wendy L. Moore Emerging Artist Series.  This annual exhibition of the work of a very talented, young (under 30), female artist who has yet not had a major gallery show never fails to generate a lot of excitement. "The Persistence of Geometry," curated by Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims of the Studio Museum in Harlem featured many works -- paintings, drawings, prints, textiles, sculptures and decorative arts -- from the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. Visitors may have expected this exhibition to be just another highlights tour of the CMA only in a new location, but the result was something totally new and surprising. "Transitions" gives the viewer a peek at what it looks like inside the museum now. Brutz's color stereoscopic transparencies were especially popular with children.

James Cozart, an avid photographer, Photoshop guru, and active participant of the Digital Photography SIG, is having a showing of his work at Loganberry Books in July. Please stop by for the reception or to view his work.

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10,000s of NEOans turned out on a perfectly crisp, clear Saturday in University Circle for "Parade The Circle", the annual public art participation extravagansa organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art. This book contains photos and comments from a heavenly day in NEO... see the links in the navigation block on the left and below and enjoy the parade!

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The Cleveland Museum of Art is difficult to recognize these days as it forges ahead with its major expansion and renovation project. One thing is certain, when the CMA reopens it will be a very different place. Will you miss the old museum and what are your hopes for the new, bigger and better CMA? What is the role of the CMA in Cleveland? and what does the CMA mean to you? Did you visit regularly before it closed last winter? Did you pay to go to the big special exhibitions? Do you visit art museums in other cities? If these are issues that interest you, you should read Museum Skepticism, a new book by Prof. David Carrier who teaches art history at Case. The following is a review that appeared on Case's homepage today.

 The following story with its links ran in CASE Daily (Case's online newpaper) today. Do feel like you have entrepreneurial genes? I think I do! Please post your thoughts
"Do genes influence who will be entrepreneurs?"

ABC News (Reuters), June 5, 2006
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2041245

Have you seen any of the dogs around the St. Clair/Superior neighborhood? I went looking for them on a Tuesday evening shortly after they were installed in their summer locations. I won't tell you where these two are, but they are probably the easiest to find.

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Most of the NEO residents I know are animal lovers and most have at least one pet. What is your favorite pet? For many NEO residents its the Chihuahua! I don't have a Chihuahua, but I was invited to my first Chihuahua meet up yesterday afternoon.

Season Finale!

Opera-in-concert, sung in Italian with English surtitles.

Join The Cleveland Orchestra, Music Director Franz Welser-Most, and an internationally renonwned cast of singers led by Renato Bruson in the title role of Verdi's comic opera Falstaff. Based on Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor and King Henry IV, this opera was a huge success when it was first heard in Milan in 1893 and has been acclaimed by many to be Verdi's greatest opera.

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Season Finale!

Opera-in-concert, sung in Italian with English surtitles.

Join The Cleveland Orchestra, Music Director Franz Welser-Most, and an internationally renonwned cast of singers led by Renato Bruson in the title role of Verdi's comic opera Falstaff. Based on Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor and King Henry IV, this opera was a huge success when it was first heard in Milan in 1893 and has been acclaimed by many to be Verdi's greatest opera.

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Come to the Community Colonnade on the corner of Lee Rd. and Van Aken Blvd.

Featuring performances y Rolando pizana y sus Rhumberos, The Prayer Warriors, and Blue Lunch, plus jewelry, crafts and gifts made by local artists; children's activities; lighting ceremony and a variety of food and beverages.

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When a woman in the audience asked Christo and Jeanne-Claude how they define art, Jeanne-Claude  said they don't define art they make art. She went on to say that they make art because "it is our life" and all their works are works of "joy and beauty."

Day two filming "The Man With The Magnetic Brain", and the economic impact on NEO is adding up. There's the dozen or so people running around town (gas and RTA), and the meals (Rascal House and the grocery store), film and processing (Dodd's), and a hat at Mike-The-Hatter - so, it's only hundreds of dollars, but that's more than would have been spent without the film industry happening here, today. And we had fun, scared a few cops, and entertained a homeless couple on E. 19th - I'd say... all that makes Cleveland a better place to be... and if you're cruising around E19th and Superior tonight, stop by and be in pictures...

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The century plant sure knows how to go out with a bang! 

At Rockefeller Greenhouse, the century plant is about to bloom. If you have visited the greenhouse any time in the last  60 or 70 years you probably saw the century plant -- its the huge centerpiece of the succulent garden. Why is this such a big deal?

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Join a distinguished list of artists exhbiting at this downtown gallery space dedicated to showcasing Ohio Artists.

Judged by Andrew Boroweic
(http://www.mocp.org/collections/mpp/borowiec_andrew.php)

Curated by Herb Ascherman
(http://www.freetimes.com/print.php?sid=3264&POSTNUKESID=24aa2fceed74b
ef7dde959c055a6603a)

Gallery 324
1301 East Ninth Street
Cleveland, OH 44114

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, May 19th, 2006     5 - 8 PM
Light refreshments provided.
Exhibition continues through June 30, 2006
Gallery Hours:  Monday - Friday 10 - 6, Saturday 10 - 2, and by
appointment

More information:
216.780.1522
marcus [at] designerglass [dot] com" target="_blank">marcus [at] designerglass [dot] com 

About the Show:
Andrew Boroweic is well-known for his extraordinary eye. If you´re
bored with the ordinary photograph, this is the photography show to
come see.

Boroweic says that the challenge of finding art in photography is
similar to the challenge of finding poetry in language. The art
inheres in how the ordinary is made extraordinary - not because it´s
so different but because it´s often only a little different: just
different enough. Come see what he means in this show.

About the Gallery:
Founded in 2005, the mission of Gallery 324 is to showcase primarily
Ohio artists. Located in the Galleria at Erieview on the first floor,
near the Food Court, Gallery 324 is operated by Marcus Bales, a
Cleveland glass artist, in conjunction with Gary Roberts, a Cleveland
furniture designer. 

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Verb Ballets presents an evening entitled Verb Ballets Celebrates Cleveland Composers, performing to new music written by three Cleveland composers: Backlash by Eric Ericziolek, Eight Easy Pieces for Piano by Jonathan Sheffer, musical director of Red {an orchestra} and two world premiere pieces by Klaus Roy, formerly with the Cleveland Orchestra. The music will be performed live.

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