Steven Litt
Independent JournalistSteven Litt, a native of Westchester County, New York, is an independent journalist specializing in art, architecture and city planning. He covered those topics for The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., from 1984 to 1991, and for The Plain Dealer from 1991 to 2024. He has also written for ARTnews, Architectural Record, Metropolis, and other publications.
Steve earned a bachelor鈥檚 degree in art from Brown University, plus two master鈥檚 degrees 鈥� one in journalism from Columbia University and one in city planning from Cleveland State University.
He is a 2010 winner of the Cleveland Arts Prize, a 2016 inductee into the Cleveland Press Club Hall of Fame, the 2019 winner of the Centennial Award of the Ohio Chapter of the American Planning Association, and a 2020 winner of the national Rabkin Prize for art criticism.
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The museum plans to use the money to keep admission free, permanently fund curator and administrative roles as well as boost art conservation and digital innovation. -
The Cleveland Foundation announced that the family of the early 20th-century steel magnate鈥疭amuel T. Wellman has donated $10 million to the Samuel T. Wellman Site Readiness Fund. -
鈥淚cons in Ink, The Jewish Comics Experience,鈥� on view at the Maltz Museum in Beachwood through Aug. 23, is a revelation and a celebration, albeit with some limitations and questionable aspects. -
The Midline project aims to revive walk-to-work manufacturing jobs across a 350-acre swath of Cleveland鈥檚 neglected East Side. -
University Circle, Inc. will soon present its 鈥淐onnecting the Circle,鈥欌�� master plan to the city鈥檚 planning commission for adoption as a guide for future improvements. -
The new planning effort will be led by the firm of MVRDV, based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, which has worked on major waterfront plans carried out in cities across the world. -
The Cleveland Museum of Art exhibit assembles 36 paintings and seven works on paper by Manet and Morisot, closely examining how the artists influenced each other. -
Cosm Cleveland, an immersive entertainment facility under construction in Downtown Cleveland, will aim to attract visitors with immersive viewings on a spectacular screen. -
After decades of failed attempts and nearly five years of planning under two mayors since 2021, the city is closer than ever to launching a once-in-a-century makeover of its drab, largely inaccessible Lake Erie waterfront. -
The Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College is exhibiting a retrospective on the late June Leaf, a figurative artist who reveled in exploring the human comedy.
