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A Reinvention: The Gordon Square Arts District of Detroit Shoreway & The Wonders of Cleveland

Welcome to our neighborhood.

We came from Miami Florida to be near the Cleveland Clinic. My partners family comes from Cincinnati Ohio. They are here since 1820. His uncle and aunt, Frank and Carol Milgrim, had the famous womens clothing store Milgrims, first in downtown Cleveland in the 40’s and 50’s, then to Severence and closed in 1990 at the Pavilion Shopping Center in Beachwood. In 1933, Andrew’s great aunt Sally Milgrim designed Eleanor Roosevelt’s gown for the inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The gown remains in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution. A friend of Florenz Zeigfeld, she designed dresses for entertainers such as Ethel Merman, Pearl Bailey and Mary Pickford.

We now live in a wonderful old victorian right down the street from the Happy Dog. My partner and I are together for 32 years. Its a great palce for every age.The arts are all around us. Life is everywhere in the city of Cleveland and the Gordon Square Arts District of Detroit Shoreway is just one of the great wonders. It’s one of the truely great cities. Come on and come visit.

The black and white photographs are by the great Margaret Bourke White from her time in Cleveland.

Peace, Bruce Baumwoll
Song “Something’s Got a Hold of Me” sung by Christina Aguilera from the motion picture soundtrack Burlesque

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Memories of the Rockaways: Places & Faces – Song “Love is in the Air” by John Paul Young

This is a compililation of photographs of people and places of the Rockaways.

Following soon will be a list of who the photographs are attributed to and also links to some of the wonderful websites that contributed.

 

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Article on Truthout.org about Digital Art and Culture: by Max Eternity featuring Andrew Reach & Christiane Paul, Curator of New Media at the Whitney Museum

Factory by Andrew Reach

When Andrew began doing his art out of his hospital bed, one of the ways that I inspired him to work through his severe pain was that I would say, “Someday you’re going to be in the Whitney Museum in New York.” I had put all his art on our walls in our home in Miami Shores, Fl. Little does one know what lies in their future.

This year has been filled, like many of us, with great difficulty. We were told that Andrew now has a complication to his first disease, Scheuermann’s Kyposis, which is called the Viking gene which is affecting Andrew’s left leg motor skills and muscles. With pain beyond his normal pain, which means he was beyond the pain; he was the pain. Two times this year his right leg was affected and he could not walk. With multiple shots and a tremendous amount of physical therapy, he has gotten himself back up. Living with such pain is a horrible place to be.

So Andrew and I continue with the life that we now have which is being happy for what we have and never looking back to what has been lost. The secret to life is to keep going and always to see the wonder. The magic is all around us.

We were thrilled when this article came out. Both of us laughed when we saw it. There was Christiane Paul, curator of New Digital Media from the Whitney Museum of American Art, speaking on a podcast mentioning Andrew Reach, as an example of digital art in the United States, in the same story. Life is filled with so many circles.

Peace
Bruce Baumwoll
Explore more of Andrew Reach’s art at http://www.andrewreach.com

Digital Art and Culture: A 21st-Century Paradigm Shift

Monday 26 September 2011
 by: Max Eternity, Truthout | News Analysis
At a time when extreme, economic austerity measures are being considered and/or enacted by a number of Western governments – Greece, Spain, Germany, the US, and elsewhere – one has to wonder why, in the UK, a collective of government agencies in England have just allocated $815,000,000 for digital art and culture. Read more…