Four Panel Discussions Address Contemporary Curatorial Practices
Downtown the Public Programming Press Release as a PDF. CLEVELAND, Ohio (August 22, 2018) – FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art announces four panel discussions on Curatorial Practices as part of public programming during the run of the Triennial. These programs are designed to continue the research and dialog launched by FRONT International: […]
FRONT Tour: Adjusting Your Eyes Inside ‘Station Hope’
Dawoud Bey, Night Coming Tenderly, Black, 2017. Installation view at St. John’s Church. Commissioned by FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art. July 14-September 30, 2018. Courtesy the artist, Rena Bransten Gallery, and Stephen Daiter Gallery. Photography by Field Studio.
Cleveland Triennial Is an Artistic Scavenger Hunt With Civic Pride
An installation by Yinka Shonibare MBE, “The American Library,” 2018, at the Cleveland Public Library, is filled with books wrapped in African cloth and stamped with names of American immigrants.CreditYinka Shonibare MBE. All Rights Reserved, DACS/ARS, NY. Photo by Field Studio
FRONT Tour: Black Diamond Sparkles Outside University Hospital
Virginia Overton, Untitled(Black Diamond), 2018. Installation view at University Hospital, FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art. July 14-September 30, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Bortolami, New York. Photography by Field Studio.
Share your Immigration Stories – Yinka Shonibare
Have you or your family immigrated to the United States? Or perhaps you or your family were part of The Great Migration or another mass migration of people within the United States? If so we would love to hear your stories. Please submit your stories and/or photographs here, or over on social media using the […]
Escaping to Freedom, in the Shadows of the Night
Dawoud Bey, Untitled #1 (Picket Fence and Farmhouse) from Night Coming Tenderly, 2017. Black Archival pigment prints on dibond, 32 x 40 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, and Stephen Daiter, Chicago.
FRONT Opening Concert Celebration
Join FRONT to celebrate the opening of the inaugural Triennial, An American City. Party in the streets to international music featuring Jupiter & Okwess, a band from Kinshasa, who brings a wealth of traditional Congolese rhythms into contemporary African music. For the first time in the city’s history, Euclid Avenue, between Mayfield Road and E 115th, will be closed […]
Installation Preview: Marlon de Azambuja’s “Brutalismo”: FRONT International at the Cleveland Museum of Art
Casey Jane Ellison is Kidding/Not Kidding
Casey Jane Ellison is Kidding/Not Kidding The L.A.-based media artist brings serious humor to art Casey Jane Ellison’s various internet-based TV series present her in the role of the glib talk show host, asking sometimes hard-to-answer questions in lightning-round form or summarizing her guests’ views in ways that seem to have little to do with […]
Announcing details of Great Lakes Research initiative
Download as PDF: Great Lakes Research_5.11.18 CLEVELAND, Ohio (Monday, May 14, 2018) – Twenty-one artists from cities surrounding the Great Lakes will have works on view in The Great Lakes Research, one of the many events that comprise FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art. The triennial is a summer-long exhibition of contemporary art from […]
A glimpse of Cleveland’s global exhibition in the making with FRONT director (photos)
Contribute Your Voice to the Cleveland and Akron Theme Song!
The Theme Song for Cleveland and Akron is a commission with Front International in partnership with the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The song will be written by the citizens of Northeastern Ohio via this survey and will be performed by local musicians. The lyrics and music will be compiled by filmmaker/writer Jonn Herschend and musician/composer Silas Hite. […]