Gazes and Shadows: Continuity and Change: The Return to Figurative Painting Cincinnati Art Galleries, May 3–June 8 By Jonathan Kamholtz “Continuity and Change” is a big and a...
Letter from New York Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective at the Whitney Museum of Art by Brett Baker Known primarily as the author of the mythic painting The Rose, Jay DeFeo (1929-1989) was...
Fashion: Visual Culture Front and Center Cynthia Amnéus In 2011 the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition Savage Beauty, celebrating the work of fashion designer Alexander McQ...
JUST PATTI – PATTI SMITH AT MEMORIAL HALL by Kathy Valin One Indian summer day we dressed in our favorite things, me in my beatnik sandals and ragged scarves, and Robert with his...
Super Cooper: Art without Words By Keith Banner In a New York Magazine article about the recent opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute’s exhibit “P...
Meaning and Message: Marketing at the Intersection of Arts and Advocacy Christa Zielke The conversation about “outsider art/ists” has been constantly changing and evolving for ...
Art Academy of Cincinnati Looks to the Future Led by John Sullivan, President By Laura A. Hobson John Sullivan, president of the Art Academy of Cincinnati since 2012, looks for tea...
Geometrically Ordered Design: Angels and Rainbows By Dustin Pike “Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so low...
Visually Sound at LOT Louisville Is Virtually Flawless by Louis Zoellar Bickett, Lexington, KY Visually Sound—the group show at LOT Louisville is curated by the artist and indepe...
“Queen City Glass Arts . . . Renaissance,” 5th Street Gallery Work by seven members of Queen City Glass Art is currently on view at the 5th Street Gallery, a co-op gallery in...
The Eyes Have It “Kinetica [movement in art]“ and “Fictive Portraits” at Manifest Gallery. By Fran Watson There is a little “back room” at Manifest Art Gall...
Art, technology and innovation merge: DISRUPTORS at the Artisan Enterprise Center by Marla Sweitzer Art and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship unite in DISRUPTORS, on disp...
“Terrie Hancock Mangat: Quilts” at Carl Solway Gallery By Karen Chambers Terrie Hancock Mangat is quite clear about what she’s making when she stitches together cloth and add...
The Magic of Trees by Shawn Daniell Trees I THINK that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the sweet earth’s flowing breast;...
Interview with Martha Otero Editor’s note: Aeqai freqently receives art announcements from galleries, non-profits, museums and individual artists from all parts of the globe....
ART FOR A BETTER WORLD By Saad Ghosn • Images For A Better World: Gary GAFFNEY, Visual Artist Gary Gaffney, born in New Orleans, LA, is now Professor Emeritus at the Art Academy ...
Photos: The Archive Louis Zoellar Bickett, Lexington, KY Gratz Park Spring, Thursday Morning, April 18, 2013 Old Georgetown Street House, Lexington, KY ...
Donna Talerico at Saks Fifth Avenue By Jane Durrell The invitation is to meet the artist, Donna Talerico, whose show opens that very evening, in the shoe department on the first fl...
WHY DOES IT BOTHER ME SO MUCH? By Susan Amis Santa Fe, New Mexico. To the creative mind the name alone is sufficiently inspiring. It has to be one of the most stimulating places to...
A Letter from Mt. Adams: Far from being out of town, where these “letters from” are supposed to be, Mt. Adams is as close to town as one can be in Cincinnati. And yet for us...
Book Reviews By Daniel Brown The Woman Upstairs, by Claire Messud, is important and refreshing on a number of levels. Messud, whose first novel The Emperor’s Children chron...
Maxwell’s Poetry Corner By Maxwell Redder Dandelion circle of intellects brewing over film, undermining, photography and drinking homebrews one called Eight and a Ha...
Letter from the Editor The May issue is a few days late, so that all the aeqai writers could have a breather after the benefit party that The Carnegie hosted for us on Thursday, M...
LETTER FROM: New York: March 7th to 10th By Kevin Ott My flight arrives on time, the cab line is short and traffic is thin, so my arrival at the Gramercy Park Hotel is before noon,...
Other Worlds by Fran Watson Hema Upadhyay and Atul Dodlya At the Contemporary Arts Center Both artists are are from India, both have been celebrated internationally, and both exhib...
Letter from Chicago: Part II. “Picasso and Chicago: the Fearless Pursuit of the Modern” Art Institute of Chicago, Feb 20 – May 12, 2013 http://www.artic.edu/exhibition/pi...
The Pits: Empire Falling: New Photographs by Elena Dorfman Phyllis Weston Gallery, March 29-May 11 By Jonathan Kamholtz From a distance, “Empire Falling #6” (the artist’s tit...
Atlas Points By Chistopher Hoeting Cincinnati’s Emery once again opened its doors for the third consecutive year (under the leadership of The Requiem Project) with two shows this...
Geometrically Ordered Design: Modern Magick By Dustin Pike This is my eleventh article pertaining to the design field and its relationship with mathematics and geometry. In order...
MILTON GLASER: Drawings and Rugs Carl Solway Gallery, 424 Findlay Street, Cincinnati By Jane Durrell Milton Glaser, designer for all seasons, has turned his omni-talented hand to ...
Johnny Got His Dress: Sara Pearce Explores Gender Roles in RolePlay By Shawn Daniell In Sara Pearce’s world, men can wear dresses, with or without the blue, satin sashes. In Role...
William McGee Works 1954-1977 By Emil Robinson William McGee Works 1954-1977 just closed at the University of Cincinnati’s Reed Gallery. The show gave a wonderful introduction to...
HICK AND WILLIE AND THE ART REVIEW By James Cummins Hick: “Oh, the parks minister to lovers in the spring! Rhythms of love turn out to be symphonic, that started out merely p...
THE PAINTINGS OF RICK BENNETT AT EYE ON ART GALLERY: WHEN THE WATER IS JUST WET ENOUGH By Louis Zoellar Bickett The much exhibited and awarded artist Rick Bennett, in his Artist St...
Betwixt & Between Painting by Jean Mehdi Grangeon of Broken Daisy Studio & glass work by Darryl Berry at Marta Hewett Gallery By Larry Watson When I entered the Marta Hewet...
Elaine Ling’s Mongolia, Iris BookCafé and Gallery By Karen Chambers Walking through “Elaine Ling’s Mongolia” exhibition at the Iris BookCafé and Gallery in Over the Rhine...
LEXINGTON CEMETERY, April 10, 2013, The Archive Louis Zoellar Bickett Photo essay By Louis Zoellar Bickett...
YWCA Art Gallery Spreads Women’s Mission By Laura A. Hobson Walking up the stairs of the YWCA, 898 Walnut St., a visitor is immediately struck by a large abstract, acrylic, colo...
AMERICAN HISTORICAL PRINT COLLECTORS SOCIETY: 38TH ANNUAL MEETING IN CINCINNATI By Kevin Ott The American Historical Print Collectors Society (AHPCS) will hold its 38th Annual Meet...
SEEING BELLEVUE KENTUCKY THROUGH YELLOW COLORED GLASSES by Susan Amis The yellow glasses I found in Bellevue, Kentucky aren’t those from the Beatles’ famous Sarg...
ART FOR A BETTER WORLD ~ Saad Ghosn • Images For A Better World: Jan BROWN CHECCO, Visual Artist Jan Brown Checco, a painter, sculptor and art administrator, holds a BFA degree f...
Book Reviews by Daniel Brown The acclaim surrounding Joyce Carol Oates‘ newest novel, The Accursed, is much deserved: it is the best novel of 2013 to date and replete with co...
Poetry by Maxwell Redder Locusts Noticing the cellulite clouds moving south, the match stung me and I dropped it. Grasses, the size of corn stalks, sizzled quietly at first ...
Letter From The Editor The April issue of aeqai contains a good number of reviews of shows in this region, but also a few more essays and letters. Many aeqai writers are interested...
Letter from the Editor The May issue is a few days late, so that all the aeqai writers could have a breather after the benefit party that The Carnegie hosted for us on Thursday, M...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact Only: April 24, 2013 Betsy Kruthoffer 513-721-3707 info@historicgreatercincinnati.org Explore the Treasures of Greater Cincinnati’s Museums an...
Community Education at the Art Academy of Cincinnati Registration for all Summer 2013 Adult/Teen and Children’s programming is now open! The AAC’s Community Education cours...
