Everybody in Philadelphia has a favorite. It might be Common Threads by Meg Saligman, in which neighborhood youth appear to pop out of a stories-high mural to keep watch over the streets below. Or maybe it's Gimme Shelter, in which artist David Guinn painted residents' pampered pets frolicking on an exterior wall...
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Cleveland has excelled for decades at building shiny new attractions aimed at luring visitors and polishing a once-tarnished image.
It’s been less successful at maintaining momentum and creating the civic spaces and lively streetscapes needed to connect and amplify the new cultural and culinary riches.
That’s why today’s ribbon...
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To the casual eye, the battered commercial strip along St. Clair Avenue east of East 55th Street in Cleveland would look bleak, unwelcoming and rundown.
Michael Fleming, director of the St. Clair Superior Community Development Corp. sees something else: a street of hidden treasures and rich potential.
Since taking his...
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The Westin Cleveland Downtown hotel, currently undergoing renovations for a spring 2014 opening, has presented to the city of Cleveland's Landmarks Commission plans for what hotel managerSage Hospitality calls a “signature public artwork” by local artist Sarah Kabot.
Sage said the large-scale work will welcome guests as they enter the hotel and...
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Fascinated with the sky and goings-on overhead, sculptor Mark Reigelman has bolted a full-size rustic cabin to the facade of a hotel in San Francisco as a public-art commission. He named two other installationsWhite Cloud and Blue Birds. The avian theme continues with The Reading Nest—though this one is firmly planted on the ground, outside...
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