An American City Volume I

An American City Volume I
FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art
Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, OH)

Edited by Michelle Grabner, essays on Candice Breitz, Johnny Coleman, Dale Goode, Brenna Murphy, Allen Ruppersberg, Rebecca Shore, and Joe Smith by me.

Link to book description.
Link to Front Triennial website.

The first edition of FRONT is an expansive program of eleven interconnected Cultural Exercises that address aesthetics in relation to political change and societal uncertainty. The exhibition interweaves critical approaches to museum exhibitions, public and educational programs, residencies, publications, and research strategies in a multi-venue presentation unfolding across Cleveland and its surroundings.

An American City teases out the ways in which contemporary experiences of an urban location are shaped by historical and current events, and how a city’s collective memory and sociopolitical imperatives can define artistic and curatorial production there.