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MOCA Cleveland to reopen Oct. 1 amid fallout from pandemic, accusations of censorship and racial blind spots

Steven Litt | The Plain Dealer The side wall of a 21st-century fallout shelter fashioned at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland by Cleveland artists Kate Sopko and Angela Beallor frames a claustrophobic perspective that leads the eye to a photomural installation by the collective known as acerbic, whose members are Donald Black Jr., Gabriel Gonzalez and Ali McClain. Both installations are part of the museums current Constant as the Sun exhibition, focusing on marginalized communities in the Great Lakes region and Appalachia. Steven Litt | The Plain Dealer Cleveland artist Darius Steward adorned the stairwell at MOCA with a painting of his son sporting a backpack and lighting his way with a flashlight. The image is both a literal depiction and a metaphor for the baggage and challenges facing a black child in Cleveland. Steven Litt | The Plain Dealer For the Museum of Contemporary Art Clevelands Constant as the Sun exhibition, Cleveland artist Liz Maugans coordinated a project in which some 400 Cuyahoga County artists contributed self-portraits for a massive wall. Heres a close-up of two portraits from among many in the wall-filling display. Steven Litt | The Plain Dealer Cleveland artist Liz Maugans coordinated a project in which some 400 Cuyahoga County artists contributed self-portraits for a massive wall display in the current exhibition Constant as the Sun at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. The portraits map a virtual river of creativity running through the county. Steven Litt | The Plain Dealer A curved metal wall around the revolving front door at the Museum of Art Cleveland reflects hanging constructions made by Detroit artist Tyree Guyton, on view in the Museum of Contemporary Art Clevelands Constant as the Sun exhibition. The wall pieces, which depict clocks made from discarded signs and scraps of wood, evoke everything from American Pop Art of the 1960s to

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