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 project is being planned by Paslay Group, a consulting firm based in Fort Worth that specializes in airports. The Dallas-based architecture firm of Corgan is the lead designer. -
Cleveland will turn two Downtown streets into a one-way pair to add safety for pedestrians, cyclistsIn mid-June, the city will turn Prospect Avenue and Huron Road between Ontario Street and East Ninth Street from two-way streets into a one-way pair. Huron will be eastbound, and Prospect westbound. The project will include Downtown’s first protected bike lanes. -
Scheduled for a May 16 grand opening with a community block party, the Collaboration Center is a striking project that poses equally striking questions about how philanthropy can best repair a damaged city. -
Religion isn’t usually a big topic in contemporary art, but two quietly exquisite exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland challenge that notion from divergent yet sympathetic viewpoints. Both shows are on view through June 1. -
After numerous failed attempts over the past century, the city’s new effort is the biggest opportunity in decades to redefine the look and feel of underused parts of the lakefront. -
After years of advocacy by recreational groups, the city is ready to fix the longstanding gaps in the three-mile loop. -
The Cleveland Museum of Art’s new exhibition features black-and-white etchings, lithographs and linoleum-cut prints made by Black Cleveland artists affiliated with Karamu House in the 1930s and 1940s.
