Thursday, May 16th, 2013
The Cleveland Institute of Art will soon go to bid on the final chunk of an eight-year, $63.5 million expansion and renovation in University Circle.
On Tuesday, trustees voted to go ahead with the $33.5 million second phase of the project, which started construction in 2009 with the $30...
Author: Steven Litt
http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2013/05/cleveland_institute_of_art_to.html#comments
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
Bucking the apartment-building blitz, a Cleveland real estate investment group plans to construct and sell 20 townhouses on the eastern rim of University Circle.
Between November and April, Bluewater Capital Partners LLC quietly bought 0.7 acres along East 118th Street. Now the investment group, led by executives at Allegro Realty...
Author: Michelle Jarboe McFee
http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2013/05/townhouse_project_in_cleveland.html
Wednesday, May 08th, 2013
If the new dinosaur that paleontologists Michael Ryan of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and David Evans of Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum unveiled Tuesday hadn't been so hard-headed, they might never have found it.
Not that the animal was stubborn. Just dense up top. The crown of the 85...
Author: John Mangels
http://www.cleveland.com/science/index.ssf/2013/05/cleveland_museums_dome-headed.html
Friday, April 26th, 2013
Three of Cleveland's major cultural institutions began serving the public in the second decade of the 20th century, including two that would go on to become international titans: the Cleveland Museum of Art (1916) and the Cleveland Orchestra (1918).
But a more modest giant was first to race past the...
Author: Donald Rosenberg
http://www.cleveland.com/musicdance/index.ssf/2013/04/music_settlement_review.html
Thursday, April 18th, 2013
The Cleveland Museum of Art doesn't often behave like a butler at a country house bearing a calling card on a silver tray. But there's no mistaking the tenor of "British Drawings," the current exhibition that explores two centuries of watercolors, ink drawings and pencil sketches from the sceptered...
Author: Steven Litt
http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2013/04/polish_your_inner_anglophile_a.html
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