The Cincinnati Art Museum features two wonderful groundbreaking exhibitions. “Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop” revisits the shared work and philosophy of the 14 original members,  whose exhibitions and publication platforms preserved their legacy and opened avenues for subsequent generations of Black Artists today. Cynthia Kukla covers “David Driskell: Icons of Nature and […]

As February brings the spring rain, we at Aeqai are offering several excellent reasons to tap regional exhibits. This month, Barbara Moss writes about exciting work by contemporary artists who are redefining the possibilities of the warp and weft in The River and the Thread  Exhibition at Indian Hill Gallery. Jon Kamholtz invites us to […]

Greetings in 2022! A new beginning on many fronts.This month, Aeqai is offering several excellent reviews of regional shows for our readership to consider. The fierce poster design of Luba Lukova: Designing Justice, featured at the Freedom Center Skirball Gallery, is evaluated by William Messer. Internationally lauded, Lukova’s iconic images are in the forefront of […]

With this last publication of 2021, we offer several excellent reviews for our readership to consider. Erkin gives us Around the Circle: Kandinsky at the Guggenheim. Explore this master of the abstract The Cincinnati Art Museum reopens the completely renovated Near Eastern Gallery with a fresh vision of their collection as reviewed by Cynthia Kukla […]

This month’s reviews offer a fresh variety of regional features and reviews. Laura Hobson’s interview with CEO Scott Altman highlights the exciting developments within the programing and new center for the Cincinnati Ballet. A Portrait of Jewish Cincinnati, The Bicentennial Celebration tells the stories of the achievements of the Jewish community in our region through […]

From Interim Editor Marlene Steele Under the auspices of the Aeqai board, we are continuing the mission of Aeqai as a regional review of art events and exhibits. As this platform strives to connect artists and the art-consuming public, we express our appreciation to our readership for their continuing support and interest. This month’s reviews […]

It is my pleasure to introduce myself as I humbly offer my services as the interim editor of Aeqai. My name is Marlene Steele, practicing professional artist and portrait painter, and occasional review writer for Aeqai over the past several years. The untimely passing of Aeqai editor Daniel Brown on August 10, 2021 was shattering […]

Even in the dead of summer, in this post-COVID period, there are still art shows around of significance, and we bring you those in the new June/July issue of Aeqai, which has just posted. Chris Carter’s superb review of Cincinnati photographer Kent Krugh’s new photographs at Off Ludlow Gallery in Clifton is a real in-depth […]

The May issue of aeqai has just posted, bringing a wide variety of reviews of exhibitions from the region and from LA and New York. We begin this issue with Susan Byrnes’ magnificent review of the opening show at the newly renovated The Contemporary Dayton, a nonprofit there that’s made a big and bold move […]

The April issue of Aeqai has just posted.  The new issue focuses more on shows in commercial and/or nonprofit gallery spaces as we’ve covered most every Museum/Arts Center show around for the moment.  Karen Chambers reviews the work of another two very fine regional artists, Tina Tamarro and Lesley Daly at the newish, smart Indian […]

We’re pleased to let our readers know that our March issue of Aeqai has just posted, and equally pleased that so many arts venues, nonprofits and commercial spaces both, have reopened and are offering a wide range of engaging exhibitions. 2021 would have been the national meeting place, in Cincinnati, of the National Council on […]

Aeqai has just posted its annual combined January/February issue, and we’ve found quite a few wonderful shows to review, even during this quiet/frustrating time defined by COVID.  Jonathan Kamholtz offers us two reviews this month, the first of which is the Duveneck painting show at Cincinnati Art Museum, one of the finest reviews of this […]

Our very short December issue of Aeqai has just posted.  Because of the recent spiking of COVID, very few museums and galleries are open; some of the commercial galleries have limited hours and/or are open by appointment, but Aeqai’s reviews of regional painter Bukang Kim’s one person exhibition at The Dayton Art Institute and the […]

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The  October issue of Aeqai has just posted, and we have covered as many shows as we can find open, within reason, for your reading pleasure and stimulation.  Aeqai does not review online shows, because our writers cannot see and  thus review the installations in question, and computers notoriously distort color. So we’re sticking to […]

The September issue of Aeqai has just posted, as more art venues are reopening to live visitors.  We have three articles that focus on The Cincinnati Art Museum, a place virtually jumping with energy and fresh new ideas.  Susan Byrnes’ reviews the just opened exhibition of work (much of it photographic) by Hank Willis Thomas, […]

We know that it’s been a very long summer for everyone, whatever your circumstances may be, so we’ve decided to go ahead with a relatively short but pithy issue  of Aeqai, partly so our readers know there’s some shows out there worth seeing, and partly as our show of support for those courageous enough to […]

The June issue of Aeqai focuses exclusively on artwork made by artists who are African-American.  I asked our writers to choose an artist/work of art by any African-American artist, as we did in May with women artists; the assignment was made before the protests following the murder of George Floyd (and so many other African-Americans) […]

Since many of our readers very much enjoyed our April issue, where we asked our writers to pick one work of art anywhere in the world and tell us why  it’s important, we decided to do a variation on that idea for our May issue, as museums and galleries are still mostly closed. For May, […]

With virtually every arts organization and commercial gallery closed for the duration of the pandemic, I asked all of our critics to pick one work of art anywhere in the world and tell our readers why it’s important.  The results vary wildly; our younger writers tended to look at older works of art, while the […]

The March issue of Aeqai has just posted; it’s a somewhat abridged issue, as many columns couldn’t get written due to the closing of galleries and museums due to the coronavirus pandemic. But some of our writers did manage to see and review their shows before all those closings, and we include those in this […]

The combined January/February issue of  Aeqai has just posted, and it’s a rich and full issue, covering art shows both regional, national, and international.  When our writers travel, we usually ask them to look at significant shows around the nation/world so that our creative talent can see what’s up in other areas, and our  heavy […]

The December issue of Aeqai has just posted, and, holidays nothwithstanding, we have a full and rich issue for you.  We have reviews from two museums this month; our lede article is by Jonathan Kamholtz, who analyzes the rich, elegiac work by a lesser known photographer, who’s from India, Sohrab Hura, who moseyed through the […]

The November issue of Aeqai has just posted; we decided to put this issue up a week early,  in order to avoid the demands and pleasures of the upcoming Thanksgiving weekend. We have a fascinating issue, reviews and essays of exhibitions both in this region and from Houston, Hydra (Greece), New York and LA. Our […]

Aeqai, an international online visual arts journal, hosts its twelfth annual silent art auction and benefit from 5:30 pm to 8 pm on Thursday, November 14 at Pendleton Street Photography owned by Jens G. Rosenkrantz, Jr., located in Pendleton Studio Annex in Over-the-Rhine. Board president Cedric Michael Cox said, “Aeqai offers a strong journal with […]

The October issue of Aeqai has just posted.  It’s a very full issue, as the fall art season is now in full swing. The three major arts institutions in Cincinnati have all begun their seasons with superior shows.  Jonathan Kamholtz reviews the recently opened exhibition of Hudson River Valley paintings from the exceptionally fine New […]

The September issue of Aeqai has just posted. We’re in that twilight time when summer drags on and autumn’s holding out, as the art season will be revving up in full swing shortly. In the meantime, we’ve got stimulating columns for you, starting with Ekin Erkan’s incredibly important review of video work by Turkish artist […]

The Summer issue of Aeqai has just posted. The summer’s brought us some stimulating art exhibitions, promising, too, an exciting fall season as the visual arts begin another season here.  We’re also pleased to welcome two new writers, C.M. Turner and Josh Beckelhimer, who both have reviews in this issue and will continue with Aeqai […]

The June/July issue of Aeqai has just posted.  We apologize for the delay this month; my pneumonia dragged on and on and I’ve had limited energy to work. But short though this issue is,we believe that it’s an important and stimulating one. We review two museum shows and one major arts center in Cincinnati this […]

The May issue of Aeqai has just posted.  It’s a shorter, abridged issue this month; we’re only publishing those reviews that are from the Greater Cincinnati area, skipping our national correspondents/critics this month, since I’ve been laid up with pneumonia for over six weeks.  But we’ve got some great columns/features/reviews this month, anyway. Chris Carter […]

The April issue of Aeqai has just posted. We bring a variety of reviews, one profile and one feature this month.  Cincinnati-born, Brooklyn-based performance artist Rachel Rampelman’s work about gender, in particular, is reviewed this month by Annie Dell’Aria; the show’s at The Weston in downtown Cincinnati in The Aronoff Center.  Dell’Aria examines three different […]

The March issue of Aeqai has just posted.  It’s replete with fascinating reviews and profiles, and for those of our readers particularly interested in the digital world and its effects on contemporary art, we offer three columns which specifically address some of those issues.   Ekin Erkan provides two of those; he’ll be reviewing shows in […]

The Winter (Jan./Feb.) issue of Aeqai has just posted.  We bring twenty-two columns in this issue, rich with critical anaylsis, profiles of artists, and book reviews. The two museum shows this month are Jonathan Kamholtz’s exceptional review of modernist paintings from The Phillips Collection in Washington–and what a collection it is!–and Karen Chambers’ review of […]

The December issue of Aeqai has just posted.  It’s a shorter issue, as less shows opened this month, and many of Aeqai’s writers are unavailable at this time of year. But we’ve still got some superb reviews and profiles for you. Jonathan Kamholtz has been reviewing paintings by Cole Carothers for Aeqai for awhile now; […]

The November issue of Aeqai has just posted.  We’d like to both thank and commend all of those at FotoFocus, who have offered all of us in the Greater Cincinnati area (and those in Lexington, Louisville, Dayton and Columbus, too), for an outstanding series of exhibitions in this biennial festival of photography.  It’s been a […]

The October issue of aeqai has just posted.  We have numerous reviews, this month, of FotoFocus shows; this year’s theme is “Open Archives” and it’s been interpreted admirably by all sorts of talented artists at venues both conventional and unconventional.  New York Curator Kevin Moore is , once more, the general Curator of FotoFocus. Annie […]

The September issue of Aeqai has just posted.  We waited one extra week to post so that we could begin to cover some of the numerous FotoFocus exhibitions that are all over the region, under the title “Open Archive”, curated, again , by New York Curator Kevin Moore.  FotoFocus is now the largest photography festival […]

The 11th Annual Aeqai Fall Benefit and Art Auction will be held on Thursday, September 20 from 5:30 pm to 8 pm at Cincinnati Art Galleries, 225 East Sixth Street in downtown Cincinnati. Cedric Michael Cox, Aeqai board president, said, “Aeqai is a vital part of the artist community in the city of Cincinnati.  It […]

The July/August issue of aeqai has just posted.  We do one combined summer issue every year, when things are a bit slower in the arts.  Some of the reviews in this issue look at exhibitions that are no longer up for viewing; usually we try to be sure that the shows we review are still […]

The June issue of Aeqai has just posted.  We offer a wide variety of reviews from our region and from other major American cities as well. We’re particularly taken with LA critic Annabel Osberg’s review of Jurassic Technology , which we’ve run first, and hope you read as we’re asked to distinguish between what may […]

The April/May Aeqai has just posted.  We’ve combined these two issues due to a recent move on my part, with all the attendant chaos moves create.  I can now locate about 75% of what I need. This late spring time of year has been offering a wealth of excellent shows, particularly at Greater Cincinnati area […]

The art scene around the country is blossoming just as Nature provides her own new life and growth in this time of renewal, regeneration and hope.  The March issue of Aeqai provides a range of reviews and artist profiles consistent with a newly politicized interest in social justice, race, gender, and class, and an examination […]

Aeqai has returned with its combined January/February, 2018, issue, which has just posted. What’s particularly engaging about this issue is the range of exhibitions covered (and people profiled), as we’re living in a transitional world in the visual arts, and are witnessing a time where the internet’s presence and importance, particularly to younger artists, is […]

The December Aeqai has just posted.  It’s full of reviews from the region, and from cities as far away as both Paris and Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Seattle. (Whenever Aeqai writers travel, we encourage them to review shows wherever they may be).  We start this issue with Jonathan Kamholtz’s brilliant review of […]

The November issue of Aeqai has just posted. Please click here to view the new issue.

The October issue of Aeqai has just posted, and it’s our largest issue to date.  We’ve added Boston to the cities we’re covering, and, in the next few months, New York will regularly be covered, though the majority of our reviews continue to be in/of the Greater Cincinnati region.  And Seattle is back in our […]

As the fall season really heats up, both the number of exhibitions soars, and the number of high quality ones appear as well.  Aeqai’s September issue attempts to do justice to so many fine shows which have opened both regionally and nationally (and internationally, in one case) in September.  We’re offering a big issue this month. […]

The summer (July/August) issue of aeqai has just posted. We have an excellent mix of exhibitions from this region, and others from around the country.   Jonathan Kamholtz reviews two major exhibitions for aeqai this month, The Folk Art in America show at The Cincinnati Art Museum, and the British paintings exhibition from the Berger […]

The May/June issue of aeqai has just posted.  As we get into the summer months, a lot of aeqai’s writers travel around the world, and we’re pleased to offer reviews from other cities besides the ones we normally cover.  We think that our May/June issue is replete with exceptional reviews and features. Michael Scheurer , one […]

Aeqai’s back with its April issue, and we apologize that we’re about l0 days late.  My computer broke for awhile–a few of this month’s columns were actually meant to be posted last month–and then I had to go on medical leave for about six weeks, but I’m back.  I think our new issue is well worth […]

Since the Editor Daniel Brown’s computer stopped working on Friday, March 17, we are simply notifying our readers that the March issue of Aeqai has now posted.  Columns that were not included in this month’s issue will appear in our April issue.  Check www.aeqai.com/main  to go directly to the new issue.

Aeqai’s back with a double issue, January/February, 2016, and the new issue has just posted.  We hope that you’ll find our slight increase in cultural criticism and some theoretical articles appealing, as we do, as we plan to increase posting articles like these.  Jack Wood, a printmaker of increasing renown, sent us, by request, an essay […]

The December issue of aeqai has just posted, and it’s a very eclectic group of columns we have for our readers this month.  I’m hoping to move aeqai into the field of cultural criticism, as well as art criticism, and we have a couple of splendid examples of that larger look at the culture this […]

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The visual arts in Greater Cincinnati have been dominated this fall by the third biennial celebration of photography/lens based art, so that a large number of our reviews in this October/November aeqai  are of photography shows, of which there have been a plethora, generating much discussion about the medium itself and giving area viewers the […]

We’ve combined two issues of Aeqai, late-August and all of September, in order to offer you the best selection of reviews and profiles for the beginning of the art season here and nationally, so it’s a very large issue.  And we wanted to accomodate some of the early exhibitions under the FotoFocus banner; those shows […]

Aeqai’s one combined summer issue, July/August, has just posted, and we think it gives an exceptional overview of the visual arts throughout our region, including both Dayton and Lexington. And with the 2016 FotoFocus biennial just around the corner, we’re including some extra reviews and articles about photography in this issue, as a kind of […]

The June issue of aeqai has just posted, and we think it’s another outstanding issue. We begin with Zack Hatfield’s brilliant analysis of the work of Tomas Saraceno, which look like kites, and are called “Solar Bell”, installed hanging in the Contemporary Arts Center downtown. Hackfield’s analysis includes how the work interacts with the late […]

The May issue of Aeqai has just posted, and it’s another very large issue, filled with reviews, profiles/interviews, tributes to arts leaders, and our small literary section. We begin with Karen Chambers’ admirable review of the exhibtion “Unraveled” , at The Contemporary Arts Center, guest curated by Kate Bonansinga, Director of the School of Art at UC/DAAP. […]

The April issue of aeqai has just posted, and it’s a very full issue: you may have noted that each issue of aeqai is getting bigger, and that’s because we’re getting a lot of national attention, as well as regional, and we’ve been finding superb writers in many other cities:  we’re now covering Chicago, Los […]

The March issue of aeqai has just posted, and , like last month’s issue, it’s a large one. Spring brings more art shows and more people going to them.  Our reviews this month start with Karen Chambers’ astute look at “Utopia Parkway Revisited”, at ThunderSky Gallery in Northside, wherin regional artists reexamine and reinterpret the […]

February issue of Aeqai (go to www.aeqai.com) has just posted.  It reflects the very wide range of exhibitions currently on display throughout the region; we’ve got nearly 25 reviews and profiles this month, and it looks like next month’s going to be a big one, as well.  Highlights of this issue include Jonathan Kamholtz’s review of […]

The January issue of Aeqai has just posted, as the season in the visual arts begins to heat up (though ‘heat’ may be an odd choice of words with the weather as it is). We’re excited to bring you a number of excellent reviews and profiles, and to introduce you to two new writers, Chelsea Borgman, […]

The December issue of Aeqai has just posted.  As before, it’s usually a smaller issue, as we note that more exhibition spaces hold off putting up new shows until around the middle of January , as various holiday pop-up shows in studios across the region occur.  Since this time of year tends to be frenzied,  institutions and galleries hope […]

The November issue of Aeqai, which is filled with reviews and profiles, has just posted. It’s an exceptional issue, reflecting smart art, artists, and ideas about culture competing for our attention.  We look , from several different perspectives, at the Symposium that FotoFocus’ New York Curator Kevin Moore put together in Cincinnati on Oct. 24, […]

AEQAI FALL BENEFIT November 10, 2015 6-9pm Weston Gallery located in the Aronoff Center for the Arts   Aeqai is sponsoring its annual fundraiser on November 10, 2015 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at The Weston Gallery located in The Aronoff Center for the Arts. The purpose of the benefit is to provide funding for aeqai, a […]

The month of October always brings with it not only glorious weather, but some of the most fascinating art shows tend to appear during this month every year, and 2015 is no exception. Exhibition offerings are very strong, and the October issue of aeqai, now posted, is full of reviews, profiles, and manifests aeqai’s growth into […]

The September Aeqai has just posted. This issue represents a kind of transition period, from mid-to late August, through the first third of September, when the summer’s just about over, and the fall season’s about to begin in earnest. More are organizations, institutions , and for-profits program year ’round now, so we still have a […]

Lloyd Library and Museum – www.lloydlibrary.org Media Contact: Anna Heran, Outreach Coordinator 513-721-3707, aheran@lloydlibrary.org 917 Plum St. | Cincinnati, OH 45202 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LLOYD LIBRARY AND MUSEUM ANNOUNCES FELLOWSHIP WINNERS Curtis Gates Lloyd Research Fellowship – Three Recipients Announced for 2015/16 Cincinnati, OH – May 28, 2015: The Lloyd continues its tradition of promoting […]

THE SUB-MISSION is now accepting proposals for the 2016 exhibition year. Located below THE MISSION, THE SUB-MISSION is an alternative installation project space dedicated to the development of artists living and working in Chicago. THE SUB-MISSION was created to foster the investigation of new ideas and artistic processes and to facilitate an exchange between artists […]

The May issue of Aeqai has just posted, and it again reflects wide swaths of the visual arts communities here and in other areas/regions/cities. Our coverage this month begins with a thoughtful and sensitive review of a photography show at Iris Book Cafe, curated by William Messer, known widely for his superb aesthetic eye, and […]

April has brought us better weather, and an ongoing plethora of first-rate exhibitions in the visual arts, as well as more new galleries, increasingly on the west side of town.  The April aeqai (www.aeqai.com) is now posted, and here’s an overview of what’s in it.  Mike Rutledge gives us an exciting profile of husband-and-wife ceramicist […]

The March issue of Aeqai has just posted, and the offerings in the visual arts this month have been outstanding, all over the region.  As Spring finally arrived, people have been eager to get out, see art, regroup, and be part of an increasingly large number of special events, lectures, adjunct programming.  Aeqai also welcomes […]

The January/February issue of aeqai has just posted. It’s a six week, rather than four week, issue, as the first two weeks in January were off to a slow start, after the holidays wended their way out of our systems, and the weather began to allow us to go out and not freeze. We begin […]

Aeqai is back with our December issue. We’ve taken this opportunity to give you more profiles this month, as so many galleries and nonprofits are showing their holiday wares/exhibitions/displays, though we also offer some key reviews. We hope that you’ve had or will take the chance to see the new neon installation by area artist […]

The November issue of aeqai has just posted. November was a very busy month in the visual arts, with some FotoFocus shows still going strong, and fine offerings from many nonprofits and commercial galleries. We offer, again, a wide swath of the arts community in this issue. Jonathan Kamholtz completes our FotoFocus coverage with a […]