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’s degree in art from Brown University, plus two master’s degrees — 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 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.
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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.
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Cosm Cleveland, an immersive entertainment facility under construction in Downtown Cleveland, will aim to attract visitors with immersive viewings on a spectacular screen.
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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.
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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.
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A posthumous gift from the estate of Tim Donovan aims to improve the 20-acre Canal Basin Park, the northern trailhead of the Towpath along the Cuyahoga River at Columbus Road Peninsula in Cleveland.
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The new South Residential Village at Case Western Reserve University is an example of fresh, creative, Capital A architecture, which is unusual for new college dorms.
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Cleveland architect Jonathan Kurtz has won more than 50 regional and national design awards with a portfolio that's helped rejuvenate important parts of the region’s cultural infrastructure.
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North Coast Waterfront Development Corp. announced the selection of Brecksville-based DiGeronimo Development as master developer of 50 acres on Cleveland's lakefront.
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The Great Lakes Science Center said it's open to relocating the Steamship William G. Mather as part of a massive revamp of the Downtown Cleveland lakefront.