Cleveland Dietz

Build As a development bonanza spreads from Fountain Square toward neighboring Twin Aire, companies are starting to build chic contemporary houses – it’s hard to miss the bold, angular homes at 1401, 1405, and 1501 English Avenue, for instance. These and other new dwellings offer views of the Indianapolis skyline for around $370,000 to $550,000. … Read more

Ten years ago, Naplab’s map of Indy neighborhoods became a fixture in hipster apartments. But City-County Councilor Jared Evans didn’t want to buy the damn thing until it was fixed. His stomping grounds on the west side were all wrong. He called the map designers, and his criticisms led to an update. Impassioned reactions like … Read more

Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts at Gallery 924’s TINY VI: The Year of Vonnegut exhibition, which opens Dec. 1 and runs through Jan. 5. More than 90 artists – a third of whom have never displayed in the space before – contributed pieces to the annual TINY show, which limits works to 6-by-6-by-6 inches. … Read more

One group exhibit features the artwork with first names like Frank, Rusty, Reuben, and Virgil. Another, pieces by Vernita, Elle, Sofie, and Nikki. So what’s the difference? A year-long series of solo shows at the Long-Sharp Gallery’s New York Project Space sprang from that question. The series concludes in Indianapolis with Athena Shrugged, Remix, running … Read more

Indianapolis collaborative artist LaShawnda Crowe Storm and Bloomington poet Abegunde tell the stories of women who suffered slavery, lynching, sexual violence, and other atrocities. For Storm, the work began in 2004 with a quilt that bluntly depicted one of the few known images of a woman who had been lynched – the piece was called … Read more

Delvin Rivera arrived in Indianapolis on Oct. 22, several days ahead of the National FFA Convention & Expo, as one of four delegates from Puerto Rico. “I was excited and, at the same time, so sad because I was going to leave my family back home,” says Rivera, wearing his signature FFA blue jacket. He … Read more

Whether it’s blow darts, medicines, or murder, people have always been interested in toxins. The Power of Poison, a traveling exhibit that opened at the Indiana State Museum on Oct. 21, gives visitors the opportunity to learn about their origins in the natural world, their place in our stories, and how they’ve contributed to the … Read more

An exhibition of graffiti at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields (IMA) is adding fuel to the debate over whether “aerosol art” is art of vandalism. City as Canvas: New York City Graffiti from the ’70s & ’80s, which opened Oct. 7, follows the development of graffiti from simple tags to elaborate murals and … Read more

Before making silkscreen prints of Marilyn Monroe, painting Campbell’s soup cans, and filming a man sleeping, Andy Warhol made illustrations. His work in the 1950s turned stodgy shoe companies into icons of cool, appeared on the covers of records by Thelonious Monk, Count Basie, and others and in the famous Bonwit Teller display window. Yet, … Read more

One-hundred years after Congress passed the Espionage Act to prosecute spies, more than a dozen people have been charged with violating it by leaking to the press. Ten of them were prosecuted during the last decade. Prosecution of sources became standard practice using the act after a 1988 case. Samuel Morrison faced Espionage Act charges … Read more